Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary (Mass Audubon), Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

Aug 21, 2026 7:19 AM – 10:23 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.692 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club – Early Fall Migrants at Drumlin – Leaders: Adrien Currier and Mathias Bitter – covered drumlin, crop fields, Van Leer swamp, and Hayfield Loop.
48 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose  18
Mallard  1
Mourning Dove  8
Chimney Swift  2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  4
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Red-tailed Hawk  3
Red-bellied Woodpecker  3
Downy Woodpecker  4
Pileated Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee  4
Eastern Phoebe  2
Eastern Kingbird  6
Blue Jay  5
American Crow  1
Black-capped Chickadee  4
Tufted Titmouse  5
Barn Swallow (American)  20
White-breasted Nuthatch  3
Red-breasted Nuthatch  1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Eastern)  2
Northern House Wren  4
Carolina Wren  2
European Starling  120
Gray Catbird  6
Northern Mockingbird  1
Eastern Bluebird  12
American Robin  30
Cedar Waxwing  10
House Sparrow  8
House Finch  6
American Goldfinch  12
Chipping Sparrow  18
Song Sparrow  9
Bobolink  80
Baltimore Oriole  2
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  8
Brown-headed Cowbird  1
Common Grackle  2
Blue-winged Warbler  1    By bird box on top of drumlin
Black-and-white Warbler  2
Tennessee Warbler  1    In mixed flock by preschool (Hayfield Loop)
Common Yellowthroat  2
American Redstart  1
Northern Yellow Warbler  1
new world warbler sp.  1    Very short-tailed, stocky warbler low in the shrubs. Grayish head, yellow underside, olive back. Long, yellow undertail coverts. Possibly had a complete eye-ring but views were very brief. Connecticut or Mourning. Seen in big mixed flock by preschool on Hay Field Loop.
Northern Cardinal  2
Indigo Bunting  3
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S386814775

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