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

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

Sep 12, 2026 7:00 AM – 9:20 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.7 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Sunny.  48F at start. Calm and no wind.  Extremely quiet and some common species either not seen or nor heard (with certainty).

29 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  56

Mourning Dove  3

Double-crested Cormorant  2    Flyover

Red-bellied Woodpecker  3

Downy Woodpecker  3

Eastern Wood-Pewee  2

Eastern Phoebe  2

Blue Jay  15

American Crow  9

Black-capped Chickadee  9

Tufted Titmouse  6

White-breasted Nuthatch  3

Red-breasted Nuthatch  5

Brown Creeper  1

Carolina Wren  2

European Starling  35    Conservative count

Gray Catbird  10

Northern Mockingbird  1

Hermit Thrush  1

American Robin  21    Probably conservative count

Cedar Waxwing  15    Flyover

House Finch  1

Chipping Sparrow  3

Song Sparrow  2

Common Yellowthroat  1

Magnolia Warbler  1    Female

Pine Warbler  1

new world warbler sp.  8    Perhaps more.  Brief sightings low to bushes or in low canopy and could not positively identify.

Northern Cardinal  2

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1    Immature male.

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S392683842

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