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

Fresh Pond, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US
Oct 18, 2020 7:05 AM – 8:50 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club bird walk
30 species (+2 other taxa)
Canada Goose  8
Mallard  5
Mallard x American Black Duck (hybrid)  2
Ring-necked Duck  52
Hooded Merganser  1
Common Merganser  3    Two males and one female were clearly visualized well offshore in the northern part of Fresh Pond, with characteristic features and behavior.
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  25
Ring-billed Gull  6
Herring Gull  6
gull sp.  6
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Downy Woodpecker  7
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee  1    characteristic “pee-o-wee” whistle heard
Eastern Phoebe  2
Blue Jay  9
American Crow  2
Black-capped Chickadee  8
Tufted Titmouse  2
Red-breasted Nuthatch  1
White-breasted Nuthatch  5
American Robin  18
House Sparrow  2
American Goldfinch  18
White-throated Sparrow  5
Song Sparrow  5
Common Grackle  4
Common Yellowthroat  2
Blackpoll Warbler  2
Pine Warbler  6    group of six birds, clearly seen from multiple angles.
Yellow-rumped Warbler  4
Northern Cardinal  10
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S75029312

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