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

Millennium Park, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

May 25, 2025 7:55 AM – 10:36 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.0 mile(s)

50 species

Canada Goose  3

Mute Swan  2

Wood Duck  1

Mallard  3

Mourning Dove  3

Chimney Swift  30

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1

Killdeer  3

Great Blue Heron  2

Osprey  1

Cooper’s Hawk  2

Red-tailed Hawk  1

Downy Woodpecker  1

Northern Flicker  1

American Kestrel  1

Alder Flycatcher  1    Heard at dog beach on ruins trail

Willow Flycatcher  3    Fitz pew call a few times at dog beach; saw and heard one on perimeter trail heading towards cemetery

Great Crested Flycatcher  1

Warbling Vireo  8

Red-eyed Vireo  2

Blue Jay  2

American Crow  2

Fish Crow  3    regular flock here

Black-capped Chickadee  2

Tufted Titmouse  3

Tree Swallow  6

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  1

Barn Swallow  3

Carolina Wren  3

European Starling  14

Gray Catbird  5

Northern Mockingbird  2

American Robin  3

Cedar Waxwing  4

House Finch  2

American Goldfinch  8

Chipping Sparrow  1

Song Sparrow  16

Bobolink  2

Orchard Oriole  2

Baltimore Oriole  7

Red-winged Blackbird  15

Brown-headed Cowbird  2

Common Grackle  8

Mourning Warbler  1    Heard singing in big field of knotweed near dog beach on ruins trail

Common Yellowthroat  9

American Redstart  1

Yellow Warbler  18

Northern Cardinal  4

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S246117319

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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