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

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

May 16, 2026 7:00 AM – 9:45 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Sunny and cool (low 50sF) at start and ended in mid 60sF and warm at end.

64 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  2    F-O

Wild Turkey  1    Immature in grass near Alcott House

Mourning Dove  1

Chimney Swift  2

Double-crested Cormorant  1    Immature F-O.

Turkey Vulture  6

Sharp-shinned Hawk  1    F-O near New Meadow.

Bald Eagle  1    Immature emerged from pine tree canopy on western edge of New Meadow after being harassed by a few crows.

Red-tailed Hawk  4    Seen mid-walk soaring.

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Downy Woodpecker  1

Pileated Woodpecker  1

Merlin  1    F-O at main campus.

Eastern Phoebe  4

Great Crested Flycatcher  4

new world flycatcher sp.  1

Blue-headed Vireo  1    Heard clearly singing in the lower woods.

Red-eyed Vireo  6

Blue Jay  10

American Crow  4

Common Raven  2    Seen beyond New Meadow on cell tower.

Black-capped Chickadee  9

Tufted Titmouse  2

Tree Swallow  1

Barn Swallow  1

Golden-crowned Kinglet  1

Red-breasted Nuthatch  1

Northern House Wren  1

Carolina Wren  1

European Starling  15

Gray Catbird  7

Northern Mockingbird  1

Eastern Bluebird  4

Veery  2    Both heard.  FOY for some of us.  Brief sighting of by Rita (at first glance thought it was an ovenbird).

Hermit Thrush  1

Wood Thrush  2

American Robin  8    Conservative count.

House Sparrow  2

House Finch  2

American Goldfinch  2

Chipping Sparrow  5

White-throated Sparrow  1

Song Sparrow  3

Eastern Towhee  2

Baltimore Oriole  2

Red-winged Blackbird  10

Brown-headed Cowbird  2

Common Grackle  9

Ovenbird  7

Blue-winged Warbler  4

Black-and-white Warbler  7

Common Yellowthroat  6

American Redstart  6

Northern Parula  3

Magnolia Warbler  3

Bay-breasted Warbler  1

Northern Yellow Warbler  3

Chestnut-sided Warbler  4

Pine Warbler  5

Yellow-rumped Warbler  2

Wilson’s Warbler  1

Scarlet Tanager  3

Northern Cardinal  4

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  5

Indigo Bunting  3

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S341266834

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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