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

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

Sep 13, 2025 6:55 AM – 9:30 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Sunny.  52F at start. 64F at end.  Over all calm with a few nice sightings.  Sandy and Rita led this walk for the Boxborough Birders and the Brookline Bird Club.

32 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  4

Mourning Dove  1

Northern Harrier  1    At the end of the walk while reviewing the species totals, Ed scanned the western horizon and spotted this species.  Stunning view even though distant and white rump very prominent.

Red-bellied Woodpecker  4

Downy Woodpecker  4

Hairy Woodpecker  1

Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Pileated Woodpecker  1    Finally let out a few calls and graced some of us with a fly-over at the end of the walk.

Northern Flicker  4

Olive-sided Flycatcher  1    Ed found this species towards the end of the walk near the Alcott House on the top of a tall dead tree.  Excellent sighting!

Eastern Phoebe  2

Blue Jay  18    Conservative count.

American Crow  4

Common Raven  2    Pair flew over at the beginning of the walk headed west.

Black-capped Chickadee  15

Tufted Titmouse  1    Heard towards the end of the walk…with chickadees.

White-breasted Nuthatch  2

Red-breasted Nuthatch  1    In the woods and heard very clearly.

Northern House Wren  1

Carolina Wren  1

European Starling  9    Adorned the weathervane on top of the barn near the road at the entry.

Gray Catbird  5

Northern Mockingbird  3    Main campus.

Eastern Bluebird  2

American Robin  25    Probably conservative count.

Cedar Waxwing  9

House Sparrow  5

House Finch  2

American Goldfinch  5

Song Sparrow  1    Unexpected low count.

Eastern Towhee  2    Exiting the woods just up from Alcott House.

new world sparrow sp.  1    A top tall pine abutting and below entry parking.  Seemed too small to be a house sp.  Perhaps a chipping?

Pine Warbler  1

Northern Cardinal  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S273421678

ANNUAL REPORT 1985

STATISTICAL REPORT 1985 by Mary L. Barnett, Statistician “Come in, Barn Owl. We're at the Salt Pans. The Tundra Swan just landed.” BBC CB Radio Patrol 12-7-1985 The Birding Highlight of 1985 was the proliferation [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1984

STATISTICAL REPORT-1984  Our Life List is a storehouse of rich memories to which we added this year the monarch of shorebirds, the Long-billed Curlew, on the 9th of June. Like an echo, to the same [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1983

1983 BROOKLINE BIRD CLUB STATISTICAL REPORT During 1983 the Brookline Bird Club listed 300 Massachusetts species, and identified an additional six hybrids, subspecies, color morphs, or exotics, totaling 306 in all. Trips to Maine added [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1982

1982 STATISTICAL REPORT  In 1982 the Brookline Bird Club enriched its Massachu-setts Life Species List to 376 with the addition of Townsend's Solitaire, viewed at West Tisbury on January 3rd. Dr. Bob Timberlake’s Falmouth trip [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1981

1981 STATISTICAL REPORT “My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing There isn’t a [bird trip] I wouldn’t take No matter where it’s going!” (with apologies to [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1980

1980 STATISTICAL REPORT  During 1980 the Brookline Bird Club observed 313 species of birds as follows: Massachusetts, 299 species; New Hampshire, two additional species; New Jersey to North Carolina, 12 additional species. The 14 species [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1985

STATISTICAL REPORT 1985 by Mary L. Barnett, Statistician “Come in, Barn Owl. We're at the Salt Pans. The Tundra Swan just landed.” BBC CB Radio Patrol 12-7-1985 The Birding Highlight of 1985 was the proliferation [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1984

STATISTICAL REPORT-1984  Our Life List is a storehouse of rich memories to which we added this year the monarch of shorebirds, the Long-billed Curlew, on the 9th of June. Like an echo, to the same [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1983

1983 BROOKLINE BIRD CLUB STATISTICAL REPORT During 1983 the Brookline Bird Club listed 300 Massachusetts species, and identified an additional six hybrids, subspecies, color morphs, or exotics, totaling 306 in all. Trips to Maine added [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1982

1982 STATISTICAL REPORT  In 1982 the Brookline Bird Club enriched its Massachu-setts Life Species List to 376 with the addition of Townsend's Solitaire, viewed at West Tisbury on January 3rd. Dr. Bob Timberlake’s Falmouth trip [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1981

1981 STATISTICAL REPORT “My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing There isn’t a [bird trip] I wouldn’t take No matter where it’s going!” (with apologies to [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1980

1980 STATISTICAL REPORT  During 1980 the Brookline Bird Club observed 313 species of birds as follows: Massachusetts, 299 species; New Hampshire, two additional species; New Jersey to North Carolina, 12 additional species. The 14 species [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1985

STATISTICAL REPORT 1985 by Mary L. Barnett, Statistician “Come in, Barn Owl. We're at the Salt Pans. The Tundra Swan just landed.” BBC CB Radio Patrol 12-7-1985 The Birding Highlight of 1985 was the proliferation [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1984

STATISTICAL REPORT-1984  Our Life List is a storehouse of rich memories to which we added this year the monarch of shorebirds, the Long-billed Curlew, on the 9th of June. Like an echo, to the same [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1983

1983 BROOKLINE BIRD CLUB STATISTICAL REPORT During 1983 the Brookline Bird Club listed 300 Massachusetts species, and identified an additional six hybrids, subspecies, color morphs, or exotics, totaling 306 in all. Trips to Maine added [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1982

1982 STATISTICAL REPORT  In 1982 the Brookline Bird Club enriched its Massachu-setts Life Species List to 376 with the addition of Townsend's Solitaire, viewed at West Tisbury on January 3rd. Dr. Bob Timberlake’s Falmouth trip [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1981

1981 STATISTICAL REPORT “My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing There isn’t a [bird trip] I wouldn’t take No matter where it’s going!” (with apologies to [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1980

1980 STATISTICAL REPORT  During 1980 the Brookline Bird Club observed 313 species of birds as follows: Massachusetts, 299 species; New Hampshire, two additional species; New Jersey to North Carolina, 12 additional species. The 14 species [...]

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