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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 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

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