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

And the Winner Is…

And the Winner Is... Congratulations to Kate McHugh, who has won the Migration Madness Membership Drive! Kate will receive their choice of a pair of binoculars or two tickets for one of our summer water

And the Winner Is…

And the Winner Is... Congratulations to Kate McHugh, who has won the Migration Madness Membership Drive! Kate will receive their choice of a pair of binoculars or two tickets for one of our summer water

And the Winner Is…

And the Winner Is... Congratulations to Kate McHugh, who has won the Migration Madness Membership Drive! Kate will receive their choice of a pair of binoculars or two tickets for one of our summer water

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