Millennium Park, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US
Apr 4, 2026 8:07 AM – 10:10 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.81 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Brookline Bird Club walk
34 species (+2 other taxa)
Canada Goose 3
Mute Swan 1
Mallard 8
Mourning Dove 8
Killdeer 2
Great Blue Heron 1 Seen when walking back from the high school.
Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Continuing. Seen near Canoe Launch parking lot.
Red-tailed Hawk 2
hawk sp. 1
Belted Kingfisher 1 Heard when walking back along Sawmill Brook from the high school.
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 1
Eastern Phoebe 8
Blue Jay 4
American Crow 4
Fish Crow 3 Well heard by Charles River
American/Fish Crow 1
Black-capped Chickadee 2
Tufted Titmouse 3
Tree Swallow 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 3
European Starling 8
Northern Mockingbird 6
American Robin 11
House Sparrow 1
American Goldfinch 6
Chipping Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 5 seen on hillside facing the DPW facilities
Song Sparrow 9
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
Common Grackle 7
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 seen on trail paralleling railroad tracks
Northern Cardinal 4
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S318435528
Millennium Park–West Roxbury High School Marsh, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US
Apr 4, 2026 10:14 AM – 11:15 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.394 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Brookline Bird Club Walk.
Possible palm warbler.
21 species
Canada Goose 5
Mute Swan 2
Wood Duck 3
Mallard 6
Hooded Merganser 1
Bald Eagle 1
Northern Flicker 1
Blue Jay 3
American Crow 1
Black-capped Chickadee 2
Tree Swallow 6
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
European Starling 3
American Robin 1
American Tree Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 1
White-throated Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 4
Red-winged Blackbird 6
Common Grackle 10
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S318435532
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Help Us Archive Old Trips!
The Brookline Bird Club has almost 80 years of field trip reports that we’d like to add to eBird. As one of the oldest bird clubs in the United States, our archive of field
A Look Back to 1918
The date of July 17, 1918 was marked in the calendar of Bostonians as the fifth anniversary of the Brookline Bird Club. There was a birthday party at “Lake Walden” to celebrate the event,
Proposed rules change for the Duck Stamp and Duck Stamp Art Contest
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now proposing a permanent rule change to the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Contest (known as the Duck Stamp) that would make the theme “Celebrating Our Waterfowl
BBC 2020 Winter Meeting: Scott Weidensaul
Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent’s Natural Soul In 1955, naturalists Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher published their bestselling book Wild America, chronicling a now-legendary 30,000-mile trip across
Fundraising Effort to Memorialize Ida (update)
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Closure of Hellcat Trail @ Parker River NWR
The Hellcat Trail at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge is closed to all public access effective Monday, December 23, 2019 in order to facilitate replacement of the entire boardwalk system that supports the trail. The
Help Us Archive Old Trips!
The Brookline Bird Club has almost 80 years of field trip reports that we’d like to add to eBird. As one of the oldest bird clubs in the United States, our archive of field
A Look Back to 1918
The date of July 17, 1918 was marked in the calendar of Bostonians as the fifth anniversary of the Brookline Bird Club. There was a birthday party at “Lake Walden” to celebrate the event,
Proposed rules change for the Duck Stamp and Duck Stamp Art Contest
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now proposing a permanent rule change to the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Contest (known as the Duck Stamp) that would make the theme “Celebrating Our Waterfowl
BBC 2020 Winter Meeting: Scott Weidensaul
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