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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

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