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

20-May-2023 07:00 – 10:10

Protocol: Traveling

2.4 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    55F at start;  mostly cloudy, no breeze.  Sandy O. and Rita GG led walk for the Brookline Bird Club and the Boxborough Birders.

56 species

Canada Goose  10

Wild Turkey  3

Black-billed Cuckoo  1    3 of us heard calling very clearly on lower campus.

Chimney Swift  2

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2

American Woodcock  1

Great Blue Heron  1    F-O over New Meadow

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Hairy Woodpecker  1

American Kestrel  1    On edge at old meadow.

Eastern Wood-Pewee  4

Eastern Phoebe  1

Eastern Kingbird  1

Blue-headed Vireo  1

Red-eyed Vireo  7    Conservative count.

Blue Jay  10

American Crow  1

Black-capped Chickadee  9

Tufted Titmouse  2

Tree Swallow  2

Barn Swallow (American)  1    Over meadow abutting upper parking lot.

White-breasted Nuthatch  1

Brown Creeper  1

House Wren  1

Carolina Wren  1

European Starling  7

Gray Catbird  12

Northern Mockingbird  3

Eastern Bluebird  4

Veery  1

Wood Thrush  1

American Robin  17

House Sparrow  2

House Finch  3

American Goldfinch  2

Chipping Sparrow  6

Song Sparrow  4

Eastern Towhee  4

Bobolink  1    Heard clearly at New Meadow.

Baltimore Oriole  3

Red-winged Blackbird  1

Brown-headed Cowbird  2

Common Grackle  4

Ovenbird  8

Blue-winged Warbler  4    Good sightings.

Black-and-white Warbler  3

Common Yellowthroat  10

American Redstart  2

Yellow Warbler  4

Chestnut-sided Warbler  3    Excellent sightings at New Meadow.

Pine Warbler  2

Canada Warbler  1    .At hedge area along the trail abutting New Meadow

Scarlet Tanager  4

Northern Cardinal  3

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  3

Indigo Bunting  4

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S138807877