Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, 100-132 Prospect Hill Road, Worcester, Massachusetts, US
Apr 3, 2021 6:50 AM – 9:55 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.7 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:    A brisk, slightly breezy sunny morning; 26F – 36F; five of us enjoyed walking the campus masked and did not share equipment.
26 species
Canada Goose  6
Mourning Dove  2
Turkey Vulture  2    Excellent sightings on main campus.
Cooper’s Hawk  1    Seen clearly soaring over old meadow.
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  6
Downy Woodpecker  9
Northern Flicker  1    Heard calling clearly as we left the parking area but never seen.
Eastern Phoebe  8
Blue Jay  9
American Crow  8
Common Raven  1
Black-capped Chickadee  17
Tufted Titmouse  7
White-breasted Nuthatch  8
Brown Creeper  2
Northern Mockingbird  1
Eastern Bluebird  2
American Robin  44
American Goldfinch  1
Dark-eyed Junco  1    At edge of New Meadow
Song Sparrow  6
Red-winged Blackbird  1
Brown-headed Cowbird  9
Pine Warbler  4    FOY for all of us.  Excellent, brief sighting of one at top of pine tree.
Northern Cardinal  6
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S84682956

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