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

Oct 24, 2020 7:25 AM – 10:05 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.4 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    59F, cloudy and overcast, calm.  7 participants and 2 co-leaders walked along the old meadow to the new meadow and returned through the woods on the orange trail to the lower campus.  Overall, a quiet morning with a few excellent sightings.

30 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  8    Fly-overs

Mourning Dove  2

Cooper’s Hawk  1    Excellent view over New Meadow.

Red-tailed Hawk  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  6

Downy Woodpecker  2

Hairy Woodpecker  1

Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Pileated Woodpecker  1

Northern Flicker  1

Blue Jay  21

American Crow  6

Black-capped Chickadee  9    Probably more.

Tufted Titmouse  8

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1    Excellent viewing next to the Fruitland’s Farmhouse in the apple tree and shrubs.

White-breasted Nuthatch  3

Carolina Wren  4

Northern Mockingbird  2

Eastern Bluebird  15

American Robin  277    A conservative count at best.  Many fly-overs, everywhere and in the woods.

Cedar Waxwing  26

House Finch  2

Purple Finch  4

American Goldfinch  2

Dark-eyed Junco  12

White-throated Sparrow  3

Savannah Sparrow  5    Probably more.  Popping up and down in tall grasses at New Meadow.

Song Sparrow  1

Common Grackle  125    A conservative count of large flock flying over the main campus.

Yellow-rumped Warbler  9

Northern Cardinal  4

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S75398653