Fresh Pond, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US
Apr 12, 2022 6:30 AM – 7:30 AM
Checklist Comments:    BBC Bird Walk Fresh Pond April 12, 2022
33 species
Canada Goose  7
Mallard  1
Common Merganser  1
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  5
Mourning Dove  4
Killdeer  1
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  5
Common Loon  1    clearly seen by multiple observers, with characteristic dagger bill and unmistakable profile, swimming ~100 yards away from shore by the water treatment plant.
Great Blue Heron  2
Red-bellied Woodpecker  3
Downy Woodpecker  5
Northern Flicker  4
Eastern Phoebe  1
Blue Jay  6
American Crow  3
Black-capped Chickadee  3
Tufted Titmouse  2
Tree Swallow  11
White-breasted Nuthatch  2
European Starling  11
Northern Mockingbird  3
American Robin  53
House Sparrow  5
House Finch  7
American Goldfinch  4
Dark-eyed Junco  3
White-throated Sparrow  2
Song Sparrow  13
Red-winged Blackbird  7
Common Grackle  13
Pine Warbler  3
Northern Cardinal  5
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S106889769

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