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

May 21, 2022 6:55 AM – 10:10 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.1 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Foggy, moist start with gradual clearing to cloudy. Calm.  62-68F.  Walk led by Sandy and Rita for BBC and Boxborough Birders.

51 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  7    2 adults and 5 juveniles.

Mallard  1    F-O

Wild Turkey  4

Mourning Dove  1

Chimney Swift  4    Soaring over buildings.

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Downy Woodpecker  1

Northern Flicker  3

Eastern Wood-Pewee  4

Eastern Phoebe  1

Great Crested Flycatcher  1

flycatcher sp. (Tyrannidae sp.)  1    Probably a ew pewee.  Hard to see. Silent, no tail wag.  In woods in canopy.

Blue-headed Vireo  1

Red-eyed Vireo  6

Blue Jay  3

American Crow  3

Black-capped Chickadee  2

Tufted Titmouse  2

Tree Swallow  2

Barn Swallow  2

White-breasted Nuthatch  1

Brown Creeper  2

House Wren  3

European Starling  1

Gray Catbird  9

Northern Mockingbird  3

Eastern Bluebird  2

Veery  1    Heard very clearly singing in the woods.

Hermit Thrush  1

Wood Thrush  1    Heard very clearly singing in the woods.

American Robin  6

House Finch  2

American Goldfinch  4

Chipping Sparrow  6

Song Sparrow  4

Eastern Towhee  3    Good sightings.

Baltimore Oriole  3

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Common Grackle  11

blackbird sp.  8    F-Os.  Not grackles but could not identify under conditions.  Some probably starlings.

Ovenbird  5

Blue-winged Warbler  5

Black-and-white Warbler  2

Common Yellowthroat  8

American Redstart  2

Yellow Warbler  4

Chestnut-sided Warbler  1

Pine Warbler  2

Scarlet Tanager  1

Northern Cardinal  3

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1

Indigo Bunting  6    Seen in multiple locations including lower campus; near the wooded entry, new meadow, old meadow and near main campus.  Sightings appeared to be very distinct as each bird seemed “committed” to site.

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S110848442