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

Cumberland Farms (IBA), Plymouth, Massachusetts, US

Oct 25, 2026 7:00 AM – 10:51 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.428 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club walk

Leader: Ray Bedard. Nick Paulson was the only attendee.

A chilly 30 degrees to start the walk with no wind to talk about.

Warmed up nicely to about 60 degrees  with a slight breeze.

The harriers were everywhere you looked and a very light juvenile red tail kept us entertained with good discussions on plumage.

49 species

Canada Goose  6

American Black Duck  3

Mourning Dove  1

American Golden-Plover  1    Nick called this bird out as soon as it called. It most likely flushed with 3 Wilson’s Snipe. Called at least one more time. I could not make out the call on my merlin recording over Nick and I talking but the spectrogram matches ones I found online. Will upload merlin audio anyway

Wilson’s Snipe  4

Greater Yellowlegs  1

American Herring Gull  3

Double-crested Cormorant  280

Northern Harrier  8

Red-shouldered Hawk (Eastern)  1

Red-tailed Hawk (Eastern)  4

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  3

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  13

Eastern Phoebe  1

Blue Jay  4

American Crow  10

Common Raven  3

Black-capped Chickadee  8

Tufted Titmouse  1

Tree Swallow  20

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  4

Golden-crowned Kinglet  1

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  1

European Starling  1

Gray Catbird  3

Northern Mockingbird  4

Eastern Bluebird  7

American Robin  75

Cedar Waxwing  40

House Finch  10

Pine Siskin  3

American Goldfinch  30

Chipping Sparrow  2

Field Sparrow  1

Fox Sparrow  1

White-crowned Sparrow  1

White-throated Sparrow  30

Savannah Sparrow (Common)  2

Song Sparrow (Eastern)  26

Lincoln’s Sparrow  1

Swamp Sparrow  18

Red-winged Blackbird (Common)  17

Rusty Blackbird  9    A solo bird, a pair and a group o 6

Common Yellowthroat (trichas Group)  1

Palm Warbler (Western)  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  11

Northern Cardinal (Eastern)  27

Dickcissel  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S405820067

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