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

Fairhaven, Bristol, Massachusetts, US
25-Nov-2023 07:30 – 11:30
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:    BBC/SSBC trip, Glenn d’Entremont leader, Ernie L, 9 participants
39 species
Canada Goose  4
Mallard  5
American Black Duck  28
Northern Pintail  1    female on salt water
Bufflehead  18
Hooded Merganser  6
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  X
Mourning Dove  4
Double-crested Cormorant  1
Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  1
Red-tailed Hawk  2
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  3
Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  4
Blue Jay  9
American Crow  3
Black-capped Chickadee  11
Tufted Titmouse  6
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  5
Golden-crowned Kinglet  3
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  4
Carolina Wren  14
European Starling  X
Gray Catbird  5
Eastern Bluebird  3
Hermit Thrush  3
American Robin  150
House Sparrow  X
House Finch  22
Pine Siskin  1
American Goldfinch  7
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  6
White-throated Sparrow  22
Song Sparrow  8
Swamp Sparrow  3
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  5
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  4
Northern Cardinal  7
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S155764014
Egypt Lane Ponds, Fairhaven, Bristol, Massachusetts, US
25-Nov-2023 12:30 – 13:45
Mute Swan  2
Gadwall  13
Mallard  10
Hooded Merganser  4
Great Egret  1    large white bird w/long neck and legs, thick based tapered yellow bill
Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  1
Black Vulture  1
Turkey Vulture  1
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1
Merlin  1
Blue Jay  2
American Crow  1
Black-capped Chickadee  2
Brown Thrasher  1
House Finch  2
American Tree Sparrow  1
White-throated Sparrow  2
Song Sparrow  10
Swamp Sparrow  1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S155764012
Fort Phoenix State Reservation, Bristol, Massachusetts, US
25-Nov-2023 13:30 – 14:15
Brant (Atlantic)  750
Snow Goose x Brant (hybrid)  1    continuing hybrid
Canada Goose  49
Greater/Lesser Scaup  75    likely Greater, in bad light at distance
Common Eider (Dresser’s)  1
Surf Scoter  7
Long-tailed Duck  4
Bufflehead  25
Red-breasted Merganser  5
Horned Grebe  5
Ring-billed Gull  X
Herring Gull (American)  X
Great Black-backed Gull  X
Common Loon  5
Black Vulture  1
Turkey Vulture  1
Gray Catbird  2
Song Sparrow  2
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S155764011
Shaw Road, Fairhaven, Bristol, Massachusetts, US
25-Nov-2023 15:00 – 15:15
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  X
Common Raven  1

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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