Magazine Beach Park, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 3, 2025 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club spring migrants walk.

49 species (+2 other taxa)

Domestic goose sp. (Domestic type)  1

Canada Goose  45

Mallard  8

Mallard (Domestic type)  1

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  5

Mourning Dove  2

Chimney Swift  2

Spotted Sandpiper  1    seen by some

Ring-billed Gull  6

American Herring Gull  2

Great Black-backed Gull  1    flyover

Double-crested Cormorant  18

Great Blue Heron  2

Osprey  1    lower flyby, seen by some

Northern Flicker  2    heard only

American Kestrel  1    great bird- falcon flew up to large oak very briefly. ID’d by reddish breast and white on face.

Peregrine Falcon  2    F in nestbox, one flyover

Blue-headed Vireo  2

Warbling Vireo  7

Blue Jay  18

American Crow  2

Tufted Titmouse  1

Tree Swallow  4

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1

Carolina Wren  1

European Starling  25

Gray Catbird  3

Northern Mockingbird  1

Hermit Thrush  1

House Sparrow  12    many collecting goose down for nests.

House Finch  1

American Goldfinch  6

Chipping Sparrow  1    on ground by parking circle during introductions

White-throated Sparrow  3

Savannah Sparrow  12

Song Sparrow  8

Swamp Sparrow  2

Baltimore Oriole  3    at least 3. all males today.

Red-winged Blackbird  8

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Common Grackle  6

Black-and-white Warbler  3

Common Yellowthroat  1    beautiful male, first of year!

American Redstart  1    beautiful male, first of year!

Northern Parula  6

Magnolia Warbler  1    first of year!

Yellow Warbler  3

Palm Warbler  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler  2

Northern Cardinal  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S232743027

Nuttall Club special event with Peter Kaestner

Peter Kaestner in his Search for 10,000 Species of Birds in the World - A Special Event Sponsored by the Nuttall Ornithological Club Peter Kaestner after seeing his 10,000th world bird species in the Philippines.

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th

Nuttall Club special event with Peter Kaestner

Peter Kaestner in his Search for 10,000 Species of Birds in the World - A Special Event Sponsored by the Nuttall Ornithological Club Peter Kaestner after seeing his 10,000th world bird species in the Philippines.

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th

Nuttall Club special event with Peter Kaestner

Peter Kaestner in his Search for 10,000 Species of Birds in the World - A Special Event Sponsored by the Nuttall Ornithological Club Peter Kaestner after seeing his 10,000th world bird species in the Philippines.

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th

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