Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, 100-132 Prospect Hill Road, Worcester, Massachusetts, US
May 18, 2024 6:55 AM – 9:55 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.1 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Sandy and Rita co-led this walk for the Boxborough Birders and the Brookline Bird Club. Cloudy, mid 50sF, last 15″ rainy. Despite best efforts, the only F-O was the great blue heron. No vultures, no hawks.
53 species (+1 other taxa)
Wild Turkey 1 Heard clearly by a few of us twice coming from upper campus behind the office area and old meadow.
Mourning Dove 2
Chimney Swift 3 Abutting new meadow.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Great Blue Heron 1 F-O
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 3
Eastern Kingbird 1
Red-eyed Vireo 5
Blue Jay 5
Fish Crow 1
Black-capped Chickadee 3
Tufted Titmouse 1
Tree Swallow 4 New Meadow
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
House Wren 3
Carolina Wren 1
European Starling 10 2 F-O carrying food or nesting material.
Gray Catbird 7
Northern Mockingbird 2
Eastern Bluebird 2
Veery 1
Swainson’s Thrush 1 Excellent sighting in the woods.
Wood Thrush 4 Distributed across campus in the wooded area from New Meadow to Alcott House.
American Robin 12
House Sparrow 2
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 7
Chipping Sparrow 4
Savannah Sparrow 1 Clearly heard singing at meadow abutting parking area.
Song Sparrow 7 Conservative count
Eastern Towhee 3 Excellent sighting of one at New Meadow.
Bobolink 5 Heard at all meadows with excellent sighting of a male at meadow abutting main parking area.
Baltimore Oriole 6 1 female carrying nesting material. Distributed across entire campus.
Red-winged Blackbird 3 3 males seen at New Meadow. Probably a conservative count.
Brown-headed Cowbird 6
Common Grackle 6
blackbird sp. X Some F-Os.
Ovenbird 7
Blue-winged Warbler 3
Black-and-white Warbler 3
Common Yellowthroat 8
American Redstart 2
Yellow Warbler 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler 7 Well distributed across the campus.
Pine Warbler 2
Scarlet Tanager 2 2 males in pursuit in woods.
Northern Cardinal 2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 3
Indigo Bunting 6 Distinct pairs seen across entire campus. Excellent sightings of 4 males.
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S175427157
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The most recent BBC school book fund donation went to Triton Regional High School, where environmental science teacher Tom Horsley uses donated books and wall posters to teach bird identification in his classes and to
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