Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, 100-132 Prospect Hill Road, Worcester, Massachusetts, US
Aug 18, 2018 7:00 AM – 9:45 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.3 mile(s)
Comments: BBC (Brookline Bird Club) and Boxborough Birders – Fruitlands Museum, Harvard – Leader: Rita Grossman. David, Sandy, Amanda & Rita enjoyed a very quiet, but productive walk. Cloudy, 71F; 97% humidity, 5 mph occasional “breeze.” No Indigo Buntings and other than the E. Wood-Pewee, the woods were almost silent.
35 species (+3 other taxa)
Wild Turkey 14
Mourning Dove 1
Cooper’s Hawk 2
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1 Heard three times in woods near Pergolas site
Northern Flicker 10
Eastern Wood-Pewee 6
Eastern Phoebe 5 Family seen South of the Prospect House campus.
Eastern Kingbird 2
flycatcher sp. (Tyrannidae sp.) 1
Blue Jay 5
American Crow 5
Barn Swallow 3
Black-capped Chickadee 4 Probably more.
Tufted Titmouse 7
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
House Wren 1
Carolina Wren 1
Eastern Bluebird 7
Wood Thrush 1 Heard in woods near Fruitlands Farm House
American Robin 27
Gray Catbird 7
Cedar Waxwing 2 Heard in woods. Probably more.
American Goldfinch 13
Chipping Sparrow 12
Song Sparrow 3
Eastern Towhee 3
Orchard Oriole 1 Seen on north campus near Farmhouse. Female with greenish tinge to back.
Baltimore Oriole 1
blackbird sp. X A few flocks of fly-overs but high and distant and could not identify with certainty.
Common Yellowthroat 2
American Redstart 1
Pine Warbler 1
passerine sp. 1 A probable Red-eyed Vireo seen just south of Prospect house in an active oak, but, no vocalization, and, could not get a good sighting.
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48715670
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