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

Jun 22, 2019 7:00 AM – 10:05 AM

Comments:    65F – 72F; light breeze and sunny.  Twelve of us of the Boxborough Birders and Brookline Bird Club had good sightings.  Many birds in canopy or in flight we could not identify from a distance (and, being absorbed with excellent warbler sightings.)  Also saw 2 deer at New Meadow and 2 in the woods.

51 species (+1 other taxa)

Wild Turkey  8

Mourning Dove  1

Black-billed Cuckoo  1

Chimney Swift  2

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1

Turkey Vulture  1

Sharp-shinned/Cooper’s Hawk  1

Red-tailed Hawk  3    Soaring high beyond and near New Meadow.

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Downy Woodpecker  1

Pileated Woodpecker  1    Heard near New Meadow

American Kestrel  1    Three of us had a brief sighting near Pergola site and it soared over meadow towards New Meadow.

Eastern Wood-Pewee  2

Willow Flycatcher  1    Heard

Eastern Phoebe  5

Great Crested Flycatcher  1    Heard very clearly

Eastern Kingbird  6    2 at edge at Old Meadow; balance near parking lots

Blue-headed Vireo  1    Heard near old meadow in edge foliage

Warbling Vireo  1    Heard at Old Meadow

Red-eyed Vireo  5    Probably more.

Blue Jay  4

American Crow  2

Black-capped Chickadee  4

Tufted Titmouse  2

Tree Swallow  4

Barn Swallow  4

White-breasted Nuthatch  1    Heard clearly from the woods near Old Meadow

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1    Heard in woods near streams x 2 but no sightings.

Gray Catbird  9

Northern Mockingbird  2    1 on main campus; 1 near houses abutting New Meadow.

Eastern Bluebird  3

American Robin  13    Conservative count.

Cedar Waxwing  6

House Sparrow  3    At main campus

House Finch  1

American Goldfinch  6

Chipping Sparrow  3

Song Sparrow  4

Eastern Towhee  3

Baltimore Oriole  3

Brown-headed Cowbird  2

Ovenbird  6

Blue-winged Warbler  2    Excellent sightings near main campus at edge and near New Meadow.

Common Yellowthroat  8

American Redstart  3

Yellow Warbler  2

Chestnut-sided Warbler  2

Pine Warbler  2

Prairie Warbler  2    Both clearly heard near main campus and at old meadow.

Scarlet Tanager  1

Northern Cardinal  3

Indigo Bunting  5    All excellent sightings. Well distributed throughout property.

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S59037925