Brookline Bird Club – America’s most active bird club!

Brook Farm and Gethsemane Cemetery, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

May 31, 2026 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Bird Walk 5-31-26, co-led by Neil Calabro & Michael McCarthy

40 species

Mallard  1

Chimney Swift  2

American Herring Gull  2

Great Blue Heron  2

Red-bellied Woodpecker  4

Downy Woodpecker  3

Eastern Wood-Pewee  3

Eastern Phoebe  2

Great Crested Flycatcher  4

Eastern Warbling Vireo  5

Red-eyed Vireo  1

Blue Jay  5

American Crow  1

Black-capped Chickadee  2

Tufted Titmouse  2

Tree Swallow  2

Barn Swallow  1

White-breasted Nuthatch  1

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1

Northern House Wren  7

Carolina Wren  2

European Starling  7

Gray Catbird  4

American Robin  8

Cedar Waxwing  7

American Goldfinch  8

Chipping Sparrow  2

Song Sparrow  7

Swamp Sparrow  5

Baltimore Oriole  8

Red-winged Blackbird  8

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Common Grackle  6

Black-and-white Warbler  2    Heard near entrance to cemetery

Common Yellowthroat  5

American Redstart  4

Bay-breasted Warbler  1

Northern Yellow Warbler  4

Blackpoll Warbler  1

Northern Cardinal  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S352799082

Millennium Park, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

May 31, 2026 10:46 AM – 11:31 AM

Song Sparrow  2

Common Yellowthroat  1

Northern Yellow Warbler  1

Millennium Park–West Roxbury High School Marsh, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

May 31, 2026 11:47 AM – 12:32 PM

Protocol: Traveling

0.7 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Bird Walk 5-31-26, co-led by Neil Calabro & Michael McCarthy

14 species

Mute Swan  1

Chimney Swift  2

Killdeer  2

Black-crowned Night Heron  1

Green Heron  1

Great Blue Heron  4

Osprey  2

Red-tailed Hawk  3

Northern Flicker  1

Eastern Kingbird  2

American Crow  1

Tree Swallow  3

Red-winged Blackbird  10

Northern Yellow Warbler  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S352799122

Cow Island Pond, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

May 31, 2026 12:45 PM – 1:05 PM

Tree Swallow  2

Cliff Swallow  2    Observed flying over water from 20 ft away. Orangey brown around throat/breast. No birds with forked tails flying nearby.

ANNUAL REPORT 1985

STATISTICAL REPORT 1985 by Mary L. Barnett, Statistician “Come in, Barn Owl. We're at the Salt Pans. The Tundra Swan just landed.” BBC CB Radio Patrol 12-7-1985 The Birding Highlight of 1985 was the proliferation [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1984

STATISTICAL REPORT-1984  Our Life List is a storehouse of rich memories to which we added this year the monarch of shorebirds, the Long-billed Curlew, on the 9th of June. Like an echo, to the same [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1983

1983 BROOKLINE BIRD CLUB STATISTICAL REPORT During 1983 the Brookline Bird Club listed 300 Massachusetts species, and identified an additional six hybrids, subspecies, color morphs, or exotics, totaling 306 in all. Trips to Maine added [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1982

1982 STATISTICAL REPORT  In 1982 the Brookline Bird Club enriched its Massachu-setts Life Species List to 376 with the addition of Townsend's Solitaire, viewed at West Tisbury on January 3rd. Dr. Bob Timberlake’s Falmouth trip [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1981

1981 STATISTICAL REPORT “My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing There isn’t a [bird trip] I wouldn’t take No matter where it’s going!” (with apologies to [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1980

1980 STATISTICAL REPORT  During 1980 the Brookline Bird Club observed 313 species of birds as follows: Massachusetts, 299 species; New Hampshire, two additional species; New Jersey to North Carolina, 12 additional species. The 14 species [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1985

STATISTICAL REPORT 1985 by Mary L. Barnett, Statistician “Come in, Barn Owl. We're at the Salt Pans. The Tundra Swan just landed.” BBC CB Radio Patrol 12-7-1985 The Birding Highlight of 1985 was the proliferation [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1984

STATISTICAL REPORT-1984  Our Life List is a storehouse of rich memories to which we added this year the monarch of shorebirds, the Long-billed Curlew, on the 9th of June. Like an echo, to the same [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1983

1983 BROOKLINE BIRD CLUB STATISTICAL REPORT During 1983 the Brookline Bird Club listed 300 Massachusetts species, and identified an additional six hybrids, subspecies, color morphs, or exotics, totaling 306 in all. Trips to Maine added [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1982

1982 STATISTICAL REPORT  In 1982 the Brookline Bird Club enriched its Massachu-setts Life Species List to 376 with the addition of Townsend's Solitaire, viewed at West Tisbury on January 3rd. Dr. Bob Timberlake’s Falmouth trip [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1981

1981 STATISTICAL REPORT “My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing There isn’t a [bird trip] I wouldn’t take No matter where it’s going!” (with apologies to [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1980

1980 STATISTICAL REPORT  During 1980 the Brookline Bird Club observed 313 species of birds as follows: Massachusetts, 299 species; New Hampshire, two additional species; New Jersey to North Carolina, 12 additional species. The 14 species [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1985

STATISTICAL REPORT 1985 by Mary L. Barnett, Statistician “Come in, Barn Owl. We're at the Salt Pans. The Tundra Swan just landed.” BBC CB Radio Patrol 12-7-1985 The Birding Highlight of 1985 was the proliferation [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1984

STATISTICAL REPORT-1984  Our Life List is a storehouse of rich memories to which we added this year the monarch of shorebirds, the Long-billed Curlew, on the 9th of June. Like an echo, to the same [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1983

1983 BROOKLINE BIRD CLUB STATISTICAL REPORT During 1983 the Brookline Bird Club listed 300 Massachusetts species, and identified an additional six hybrids, subspecies, color morphs, or exotics, totaling 306 in all. Trips to Maine added [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1982

1982 STATISTICAL REPORT  In 1982 the Brookline Bird Club enriched its Massachu-setts Life Species List to 376 with the addition of Townsend's Solitaire, viewed at West Tisbury on January 3rd. Dr. Bob Timberlake’s Falmouth trip [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1981

1981 STATISTICAL REPORT “My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing There isn’t a [bird trip] I wouldn’t take No matter where it’s going!” (with apologies to [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1980

1980 STATISTICAL REPORT  During 1980 the Brookline Bird Club observed 313 species of birds as follows: Massachusetts, 299 species; New Hampshire, two additional species; New Jersey to North Carolina, 12 additional species. The 14 species [...]

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