Great Meadows NWR–Concord Unit, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US
May 26, 2019 6:30 AM – 9:38 AM
Comments:    Brookline/Menotomy bird club walk, J. Forbes leader. Cloudy with a brief downpour to start then got really nice. Full loop.
51 species (+4 other taxa)
Canada Goose  30    Many families
Mute Swan  1
Wood Duck  25    2 families and scattered adults
Mallard  10    1 family
Hooded Merganser  2    Min, probably more but every time we saw some it was 2 females
Mourning Dove  2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1    Calling little ways to right, we heard others had good views
Yellow-billed/Black-billed Cuckoo  1    Likely Black-billed calling distantly
Chimney Swift  1
Virginia Rail (Virginia)  1    Calling just before intersection. Leslie has views later after she left us
peep sp.  2    Probably leader only
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Double-crested Cormorant  2
Least Bittern  1    Calling at the set of benches way down to right. Eventually climbed into the open.
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  4
Green Heron  2
Turkey Vulture  1
Osprey (carolinensis)  2
Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  1
Belted Kingfisher  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1
falcon sp.  1    Presumably a kestrel, Kingbird chased off before we got a look
Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Willow Flycatcher  4    Min
Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill’s Flycatcher)  1    Alderish song along river
Least Flycatcher  1    Singing along river just before grate
Great Crested Flycatcher  3
Eastern Kingbird  5
Warbling Vireo (Eastern)  4
Red-eyed Vireo  2
Blue Jay  1
Tree Swallow  10
Barn Swallow (American)  3
Black-capped Chickadee  2
Tufted Titmouse  4
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  2
Marsh Wren (palustris Group)  6
Wood Thrush  1
American Robin  3
Gray Catbird  1
European Starling  1
Cedar Waxwing  2
American Goldfinch  2
Chipping Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  4
Swamp Sparrow  4
Baltimore Oriole  1
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  20
Common Grackle (Bronzed)  40
Common Yellowthroat  5
Yellow Warbler (Northern)  5
Blackpoll Warbler  3    2 along river one in woods
Pine Warbler  1
Northern Cardinal  1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S56791825

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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

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ANNUAL REPORT 1983

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ANNUAL REPORT 1982

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ANNUAL REPORT 1981

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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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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

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