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Great Meadows NWR–Concord Unit, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 25, 2025 6:33 AM – 9:15 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    50, nice start, wind picked way up as we entered the woods and it became hard to hear anything.  BBC trip, J. Forbes leader. jason@brewsterslinnet.com if anyone wants the list shared

47 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  30

Mute Swan  7

Wood Duck  4

Mallard  1

duck sp.  12    Ducklings without an adult visible, probably Wood

Wild Turkey  1    Gobbling across river

Mourning Dove  2

Chimney Swift  100    Probably a vast undercount

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1

Virginia Rail  1

Least Bittern  1    Popped up briefly right as the dike trail turns right

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  3

Turkey Vulture  1

Osprey (American)  1

Bald Eagle  2    Adult and young imm

Broad-winged Hawk  1    Molty imm

Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  4

hawk sp.  1

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1

Eastern Wood-Pewee  1

Willow Flycatcher  7    Min

Great Crested Flycatcher  1

Eastern Kingbird  5

Yellow-throated Vireo  1    Distantly singing across the river, expected a closer one later but no luck

Warbling Vireo (Eastern)  6

Red-eyed Vireo  3

Black-capped Chickadee  1

Tufted Titmouse  1

Tree Swallow  3

Barn Swallow (American)  10

Cliff Swallow (pyrrhonota Group)  2

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Eastern)  1

Marsh Wren (palustris Group)  4

Gray Catbird  2

American Robin  5

House Finch  2

American Goldfinch  2

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  10

Swamp Sparrow  1

Baltimore Oriole  3

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  30

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  40

Ovenbird  1

Northern Waterthrush  1    Singing deep in the riverside woods by the bridge to left

Common Yellowthroat  5

Yellow Warbler (Northern)  10

Wilson’s Warbler  1    Probably lesser only, singing a couple times across river

Northern Cardinal  1

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S249377524

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

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