Brookline Bird Club – America’s most active bird club!

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

Apr 4, 2026 6:50 AM – 9:30 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.2 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Became sunny.  54F but breezy with a windchill.

34 species

Mourning Dove  3

Turkey Vulture  7

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Bald Eagle  1

Red-tailed Hawk  2

Belted Kingfisher  1    Seen and heard; F-O at the parking lot at end.

Red-bellied Woodpecker  1

Downy Woodpecker  1

Pileated Woodpecker  1

Northern Flicker  2

American Kestrel  2    Pair near museum.

Eastern Phoebe  8    Possibly more

Blue Jay  9    Probably more

American Crow  4

Common Raven  2

Black-capped Chickadee  4

Tufted Titmouse  4

Tree Swallow  1    One seen by a few of us above the gifts shop building on arrival.

White-breasted Nuthatch  1

Red-breasted Nuthatch  3    In the woods on lower trail between New Meadow and the Alcott House trailhead.

Northern Mockingbird  2

Eastern Bluebird  6

American Robin  30    Conservative count.  Seemed to be everywhere.

House Sparrow  3

House Finch  4

American Goldfinch  7

Chipping Sparrow  1    1 Chipping Sparrow heard in woods upper canopy.  Other sighting noted in Boxborough indicating return.

Fox Sparrow  1    Heard very clearly by almost all of us as we approached New Meadow.  Confirmed by Merlin.  Could not find it.

Song Sparrow  5

Red-winged Blackbird  2

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Common Grackle  1    F-O

Pine Warbler  7

Northern Cardinal  3    All males

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S316816411

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

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