Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, 100-132 Prospect Hill Road, Worcester, Massachusetts, US

Oct 18, 2025 7:30 AM – 9:41 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.9 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Sunny, crisp, 35F at start – 49F at finish.  Nothing dramatic, but beautiful and plentiful sparrows, robins and blue jays.

27 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  2    F-O

Cooper’s Hawk  1    In tree near wood’s exit in front of Alcott House section.

hawk sp.  1    Brief glimpse near looking out from woods below Pergolas site of large raptor/vulture soaring out of sight and view blocked by trees.

Red-bellied Woodpecker  5

Downy Woodpecker  1

Northern Flicker  3

Blue Jay  16

American Crow  2

Black-capped Chickadee  19

Tufted Titmouse  14

White-breasted Nuthatch  4

Red-breasted Nuthatch  1

Carolina Wren  2

European Starling  1

Northern Mockingbird  2

Eastern Bluebird  6

American Robin  19

Cedar Waxwing  2

House Finch  8

American Goldfinch  5

Chipping Sparrow  2

Dark-eyed Junco  8

White-throated Sparrow  17

Savannah Sparrow  6

Song Sparrow  12

Swamp Sparrow  5

new world sparrow sp.  17    Approximate estimate of the many sparrow we saw at the New Meadow and at the meadow exiting the woods near Alcott House and meadow across from exit.  Rapidly moving sparrows that dropped out of site.

Yellow-rumped Warbler  4

Northern Cardinal  3

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S280339484

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Are you a BBC Member? Do you have 5 minutes? Tell us what you think about the Blue Book! We want to hear your input on our Brookline Bird Club Bulletins, mailed to members each

Fri Oct 25 Fall meeting!

The Brookline Bird Club invites you to our Hybrid (Live+Zoom) Fall Meeting on Friday October 25, 2024 from 7pm-9pm, with a social hour beginning at 6:30pm. It will feature a presentation on the dazzling Resplendent Quetzal you

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