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

Jul 16, 2022 6:55 AM – 9:25 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.3 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    68-75F; humid; hazy sun; minimal breeze.  Walk led by Sandy O. and Rita G. for BBC and Boxborough Birders.  Amazingly did not see one raptor nor hear ovenbird.

46 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  8

Wild Turkey  1    Probably more.  Heard one calling frequently from Old Meadow direction.

Mourning Dove  5

Chimney Swift  3

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  3

Red-bellied Woodpecker  3

Downy Woodpecker  4

Hairy Woodpecker  2

Northern Flicker  3

Eastern Wood-Pewee  3

Eastern Phoebe  1

flycatcher sp. (Tyrannidae sp.)  1

Warbling Vireo  1    Heard near entrance.

Red-eyed Vireo  6

Blue Jay  3

American Crow  3

Common Raven  1

Black-capped Chickadee  3

Tufted Titmouse  6

Barn Swallow  1

Red-breasted Nuthatch  1

White-breasted Nuthatch  1

European Starling  8

Gray Catbird  7

Northern Mockingbird  1

Eastern Bluebird  3

Veery  2    Heard 2 distinct birds.

Hermit Thrush  1

Wood Thrush  3    Heard three distinct birds.

American Robin  9

Cedar Waxwing  4

House Finch  1

American Goldfinch  9

Chipping Sparrow  1

Song Sparrow  6

Eastern Towhee  1

Red-winged Blackbird  3

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Common Grackle  2

blackbird sp.  70    Murmuration of blackbirds on the hayfields beyond New Meadow.  Most likely immature red-winged blackbirds with some grackles, cowbirds.

Common Yellowthroat  6

American Redstart  1

Yellow Warbler  1

Chestnut-sided Warbler  1

Scarlet Tanager  4

Northern Cardinal  5

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  2

Indigo Bunting  5

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S115395168