Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, 100-132 Prospect Hill Road, Worcester, Massachusetts
Mar 7, 2020 6:50 AM – 8:57 AM
Checklist Comments:    Despite a 30F morning, it was very windy with wind chills at 19F.  We enjoyed the soaring red-tails and beautiful “corona” with the rising sun.  Otherwise, a very subdued morning for birding.
Canada Goose  21    Fly-overs
Mourning Dove  2
Red-tailed Hawk  3
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Downy/Hairy Woodpecker  1
Blue Jay  4
American Crow  4
Black-capped Chickadee  3
Tufted Titmouse  7
White-breasted Nuthatch  2
Eastern Bluebird  1    Brief sighting in flight and heard calling at New Meadow.
American Robin  1    At New Meadow
Dark-eyed Junco  7
Song Sparrow  1
Red-winged Blackbird  8    Flying over
Common Grackle  3    Fly-overs
blackbird sp.  X    At least 10 or more seen from a distance beyond New Meadow.
Northern Cardinal  1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S65560132

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