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

Millennium Park, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

May 10, 2024 6:30 AM – 8:30 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC walk led by David Scott. Great group, good birds. Abundant Yellow Warblers and Common Yellowthroats, and a good flock of mixed migrants by the river trail

47 species

Mallard  2

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  3

Mourning Dove  3

Chimney Swift  12

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1

Killdeer  4    One small chick, with a parent doing its best to get our attention

Spotted Sandpiper  1

Great Blue Heron  1

Cooper’s Hawk  2

Red-shouldered Hawk  1    Calling, perched on dead tree in main swamp, seen from second bridge

Red-bellied Woodpecker  1

Blue Jay  2

American Crow  1

Common Raven  1

Black-capped Chickadee  1

Tufted Titmouse  1

Tree Swallow  8

Barn Swallow  2

House Wren  1    heard

Carolina Wren  1

European Starling  6

Gray Catbird  3

Northern Mockingbird  1

American Robin  8

House Sparrow  3

American Goldfinch  4

Savannah Sparrow  10

Song Sparrow  5

Lincoln’s Sparrow  2    One on river trail, one near entrance.

Swamp Sparrow  2

Orchard Oriole  1    male singing by boat ramp

Baltimore Oriole  2

Red-winged Blackbird  8

Brown-headed Cowbird  2

Common Grackle  6

Northern Waterthrush  1    heard

Black-and-white Warbler  1

Common Yellowthroat  30    Estimate. All along the marsh path and the river.

American Redstart  2

Magnolia Warbler  1

Bay-breasted Warbler  1

Yellow Warbler  20

Black-throated Blue Warbler  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler  5

Canada Warbler  1

Wilson’s Warbler  1

Northern Cardinal  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S174082630

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Fri Oct 25 Fall meeting!

The Brookline Bird Club invites you to our Hybrid (Live+Zoom) Fall Meeting on Friday October 25, 2024 from 7pm-9pm, with a social hour beginning at 6:30pm. It will feature a presentation on the dazzling Resplendent Quetzal you

Blue Book Survey

Are you a BBC Member? Do you have 5 minutes? Tell us what you think about the Blue Book! We want to hear your input on our Brookline Bird Club Bulletins, mailed to members each

Fri Oct 25 Fall meeting!

The Brookline Bird Club invites you to our Hybrid (Live+Zoom) Fall Meeting on Friday October 25, 2024 from 7pm-9pm, with a social hour beginning at 6:30pm. It will feature a presentation on the dazzling Resplendent Quetzal you

Blue Book Survey

Are you a BBC Member? Do you have 5 minutes? Tell us what you think about the Blue Book! We want to hear your input on our Brookline Bird Club Bulletins, mailed to members each

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