Charles River Bike Path–Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 2, 2026 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Protocol: Traveling

2.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    9 New Englanders braved the shower chance possibilities for the “birding trip.” We got spritzed on a couple of times but not wet. We had a variety of birds, Yellow Warbler, Yellow Rumped Warbler, Warbling Vireo, Male Wood Duck, Great Blue Heron, 2 Black Crowned Night Heron, Savannah Sparrow, Tree & Rough-winged Swallows, Chimney Swifts, Female & Male Red Wing Blackbirds…, someone had asked about the Red Wing Blackbirds diet which I didn’t know so I looked it up & they have a very varied diet of seeds, insects, snails, etc…,

28 species

Canada Goose  14

Wood Duck  1    One male Wood Duck.

Mallard  9

Mourning Dove  3

Chimney Swift  5

American Herring Gull  4

Double-crested Cormorant  2

Black-crowned Night Heron  2

Great Blue Heron  1

Downy Woodpecker  2    Heard only.

Eastern Warbling Vireo  5

Blue Jay  3

Black-capped Chickadee  1

Tree Swallow  5

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  3

Carolina Wren  1

Northern Mockingbird  1    In Shaw’s parking lot upon 1st arrival.

American Robin  6

House Sparrow  5

House Finch  3

American Goldfinch  3    Heard only.

Savannah Sparrow  2    Documentation photo out of focus but I think yellow above eye may be recognizable.

Song Sparrow  1    Heard only.

Red-winged Blackbird  7    Female & male.

Common Grackle  10

Northern Yellow Warbler  1    Seen by all but photo did not come out.

Yellow-rumped Warbler  1

Northern Cardinal  1    Heard only.

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S332103140

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Fri Oct 25 Fall meeting!

The Brookline Bird Club invites you to our Hybrid (Live+Zoom) Fall Meeting on Friday October 25, 2024 from 7pm-9pm, with a social hour beginning at 6:30pm. It will feature a presentation on the dazzling Resplendent Quetzal you

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Fri Oct 25 Fall meeting!

The Brookline Bird Club invites you to our Hybrid (Live+Zoom) Fall Meeting on Friday October 25, 2024 from 7pm-9pm, with a social hour beginning at 6:30pm. It will feature a presentation on the dazzling Resplendent Quetzal you

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