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

May 17, 2025 6:55 AM – 9:35 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Cloudy, foggy, misty at start to cloudy by 8A.  64F.  Scott noted an ermine skirting about the stonewall at the entrance.  Large porcupine seen on woodland trail near lower campus in a tree.  Most noticeable: did not see or hear a titmouse; bluebirds nor hawks/accipiter.

46 species

Canada Goose  2    Heard.  Could have been more.

Wild Turkey  8

Mourning Dove  1

Chimney Swift  5

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2

Red-bellied Woodpecker  1

Northern Flicker  1

Eastern Phoebe  3

Great Crested Flycatcher  1

Red-eyed Vireo  7

Blue Jay  6

Common Raven  2

Black-capped Chickadee  5

Tree Swallow  3

White-breasted Nuthatch  1

Brown Creeper  1

European Starling  15

Gray Catbird  9

Veery  2

Swainson’s Thrush  1

Wood Thrush  5

American Robin  15

House Sparrow  6    Seen on main campus.

House Finch  2

American Goldfinch  7

Chipping Sparrow  6

Song Sparrow  2

Bobolink  3    Heard clearly near entrance.

Baltimore Oriole  4

Red-winged Blackbird  26

Brown-headed Cowbird  5

Common Grackle  1

Ovenbird  5

Blue-winged Warbler  2

Black-and-white Warbler  1

Common Yellowthroat  12

American Redstart  5

Northern Parula  2

Yellow Warbler  6    Heard and seen…a few sightings were excellent.

Chestnut-sided Warbler  7    Heard and seen.  A few excellent sightings.

Pine Warbler  2

Black-throated Green Warbler  1

Scarlet Tanager  3

Northern Cardinal  3

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  5

Indigo Bunting  3

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S239931409