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

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

And the Winner Is…

And the Winner Is... Congratulations to Kate McHugh, who has won the Migration Madness Membership Drive! Kate will receive their choice of a pair of binoculars or two tickets for one of our summer water

And the Winner Is…

And the Winner Is... Congratulations to Kate McHugh, who has won the Migration Madness Membership Drive! Kate will receive their choice of a pair of binoculars or two tickets for one of our summer water

And the Winner Is…

And the Winner Is... Congratulations to Kate McHugh, who has won the Migration Madness Membership Drive! Kate will receive their choice of a pair of binoculars or two tickets for one of our summer water

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