Cold Spring Park, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US
Oct 14, 2018 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.5 mile(s)
Comments:     49F at the start, overcast, sunny for the last 15 minutes, calm. Red squirrel.
28 species

Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1     Young bird, very cooperative and without much tail.
Cooper’s Hawk  1
Belted Kingfisher  1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  3
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1
Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  4
Eastern Phoebe  1
Blue Jay  11
Black-capped Chickadee  3
Tufted Titmouse  4
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  1
Carolina Wren  1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  2
American Robin  29
Gray Catbird  1
American Goldfinch  7
Chipping Sparrow  3
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  9
White-throated Sparrow  7
Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  1
Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  5
Eastern Towhee  1
Rusty Blackbird  1
Common Grackle  5
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  13
Northern Cardinal  6

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S49404696

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