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Millennium Park, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

Oct 12, 2025 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Protocol: Traveling

2.0 mile(s)

26 species

Canada Goose  3

Wood Duck  4

Gadwall  2    Spotted from dog beach

Mallard  4

American Black Duck  2

Mourning Dove  3

Killdeer  3

Common Loon  4

Great Blue Heron  1

Cooper’s Hawk  2

Red-tailed Hawk  2

Eastern Phoebe  1

Blue Jay  4

American Crow  24

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1

Carolina Wren  3

European Starling  1

American Goldfinch  3

Field Sparrow  1

White-throated Sparrow  1

Song Sparrow  2

Swamp Sparrow  1

Red-winged Blackbird  3

Orange-crowned Warbler  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler  1

Northern Cardinal  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S279013360

Brook Farm and Gethsemane Cemetery, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

Oct 12, 2025 9:35 AM – 10:05 AM

Protocol: Traveling

0.5 mile(s)

7 species

Canada Goose  6

Wood Duck  8

Mallard  8

Great Blue Heron  1

Downy Woodpecker  1

Blue Jay  3

White-throated Sparrow  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S279013350

Millennium Park–West Roxbury High School Marsh, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

Oct 12, 2025 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM

Protocol: Traveling

0.5 mile(s)

18 species

Canada Goose  8

Wood Duck  6

Mallard  5

American Black Duck  1

Green-winged Teal  10

Killdeer  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Blue Jay  2

Tufted Titmouse  1

European Starling  30

Northern Mockingbird  1

Dark-eyed Junco  2

White-throated Sparrow  1

Savannah Sparrow  1

Red-winged Blackbird  4

Rusty Blackbird  12    Seen from island in swamp

Common Grackle  30

Yellow-rumped Warbler  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S279013340

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

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