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

Horn Pond Recreation Area, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

Oct 12, 2025 8:03 AM – 10:15 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.132 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Mbc walk

40 species

Canada Goose  13

Mute Swan  6

Mallard  36

Hooded Merganser  1

Mourning Dove  5

Killdeer  7

Wilson’s Snipe  1

Ring-billed Gull  4

Double-crested Cormorant  6

Osprey  1

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Red-tailed Hawk  1

Belted Kingfisher  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  1

Downy Woodpecker  2

Northern Flicker  2

Blue Jay  6

American Crow  1

Black-capped Chickadee  6

Tufted Titmouse  2

White-breasted Nuthatch  1

Brown Creeper  1

Carolina Wren  2

European Starling  23

Northern Mockingbird  2

American Robin  10

House Sparrow  36

House Finch  2

American Goldfinch  5

White-crowned Sparrow  1

White-throated Sparrow  4

Song Sparrow  5

Lincoln’s Sparrow  2

Swamp Sparrow  2

Red-winged Blackbird  2

Common Grackle  2

Nashville Warbler  1    Seen by Lorna

Yellow-rumped Warbler  1

Northern Cardinal  6

Dickcissel  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S279013390

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