Brookline Bird Club – America’s most active bird club!

Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, 100-132 Prospect Hill Road, Worcester, Massachusetts, US
Jun 18, 2022 6:55 AM – 9:55 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.5 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:    63-65F; Mostly sunny and very breezy/windy; 15mph+.  Sandy and Rita led walk for Boxborough Birders and BBC.
49 species
Mourning Dove  2
Chimney Swift  2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2
Great Blue Heron  1    Fly-over
Turkey Vulture  1
Red-tailed Hawk  4
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2    Heard two on opposite sides of the campus.
Downy Woodpecker  3
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  2
Eastern Wood-Pewee  2
Eastern Phoebe  2
Great Crested Flycatcher  2
Red-eyed Vireo  4
Blue Jay  4
Black-capped Chickadee  3
Tufted Titmouse  2
Tree Swallow  2    Seen over main campus.
Barn Swallow  3    Over main campus mostly over the meadow beyond the parking area.
White-breasted Nuthatch  2
Brown Creeper  1    Heard singing in the woods.
Gray Catbird  11
Eastern Bluebird  12
Veery  2
Hermit Thrush  1
Wood Thrush  1
American Robin  8
Cedar Waxwing  5
American Goldfinch  4
Chipping Sparrow  3
Song Sparrow  2
Eastern Towhee  2
Bobolink  2    Male singing.  Saw pair in mowed meadow beyond parking area at main campus.
Baltimore Oriole  1    Brief sighting of just one!
Red-winged Blackbird  3
Brown-headed Cowbird  12
Common Grackle  2
Ovenbird  7
Blue-winged Warbler  3    1 adult with fledge mid-woods location near historic sites; 1 adult near new meadow.
Black-and-white Warbler  2
Common Yellowthroat  5
American Redstart  5
Yellow Warbler  2
Chestnut-sided Warbler  2
Pine Warbler  1
Scarlet Tanager  1
Northern Cardinal  4
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  5
Indigo Bunting  3
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S113779114

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