Long Lake Park, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US
30-Sep-2023 06:58 – 10:32
Protocol: Traveling
2.896 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:    53-57F, cloudy but no rain. Brookline Bird Club walk led by Greg Clark
30 species (+2 other taxa)
Wood Duck  11    8 male, 3 female
Mallard  2
Mourning Dove  3
Greater Yellowlegs  1    Heard near the marsh area of Long Lake.
Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Cooper’s Hawk  1
Bald Eagle  1    Adult perched in tree along the Long Lake shoreline.
Red-bellied Woodpecker  3
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  4
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2
Blue Jay  16
American Crow  5
Common Raven  2    Pair perched on the cell tower.
Black-capped Chickadee  11
Tufted Titmouse  6
Golden-crowned Kinglet  1    heard
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  6
Brown Creeper  2
House Wren (Northern)  1
Carolina Wren  2
Gray Catbird  6
Northern Mockingbird  2    Pair at the cell tower.
Eastern Bluebird  2
Wood Thrush  1    Possibly 2
American Robin  5
Cedar Waxwing  6
Swamp Sparrow  1
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Pine Warbler  1
new world warbler sp.  1    2 white wing bars and dull olive brown back. Foraging in an oak with the Black and white warbler.
passerine sp.  2
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S151613425

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