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

Millennium Park, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

May 17, 2026 7:59 AM – 11:49 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.552 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club walk, Neil Calabro and Mike McCarthy co-leaders. Reptile: Northern water snake 

Amphibian: Eastern American toad chorus

57 species

Canada Goose  13    Goslings

Mute Swan  2

Wood Duck  1

Mallard  11    4 ducklings

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  3

Mourning Dove  4

Chimney Swift  6

Killdeer  4

Spotted Sandpiper  2

Green Heron  1

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  5

Turkey Vulture  1

Osprey (American)  1

Bald Eagle  2

Red-shouldered Hawk  1    Soaring above the oaks between the 2nd and third bridges. Clear view of the white crescents near the wingtips

Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  3

Red-bellied Woodpecker  1

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1    Male

Willow Flycatcher  2    Continuing at 2nd Bridge, and another at north basin

Great Crested Flycatcher  3

Eastern Kingbird  7

Eastern Warbling Vireo  6

Blue Jay  5

American Crow  2

Fish Crow  2

Black-capped Chickadee  2

Tufted Titmouse  2

Tree Swallow  2

Barn Swallow (American)  1

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Eastern)  1

European Starling  10

Gray Catbird  2

Northern Mockingbird  5

Wood Thrush  1    Singing near 1st Bridge

American Robin  3

Cedar Waxwing  9

House Sparrow  7

House Finch  2

American Goldfinch  6

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  5

Swamp Sparrow  4

Bobolink  2

Orchard Oriole  2

Baltimore Oriole  8    Female gathering nesting material

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  8

Brown-headed Cowbird  4

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  3

Northern Waterthrush  1

Black-and-white Warbler  1

Common Yellowthroat  3

American Redstart  2

Northern Yellow Warbler  14

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  1

Wilson’s Warbler  1

Northern Cardinal  2

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S342728350

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ANNUAL REPORT 1982

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ANNUAL REPORT 1981

1981 STATISTICAL REPORT “My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing There isn’t a [bird trip] I wouldn’t take No matter where it’s going!” (with apologies to [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1980

1980 STATISTICAL REPORT  During 1980 the Brookline Bird Club observed 313 species of birds as follows: Massachusetts, 299 species; New Hampshire, two additional species; New Jersey to North Carolina, 12 additional species. The 14 species [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1985

STATISTICAL REPORT 1985 by Mary L. Barnett, Statistician “Come in, Barn Owl. We're at the Salt Pans. The Tundra Swan just landed.” BBC CB Radio Patrol 12-7-1985 The Birding Highlight of 1985 was the proliferation [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1984

STATISTICAL REPORT-1984  Our Life List is a storehouse of rich memories to which we added this year the monarch of shorebirds, the Long-billed Curlew, on the 9th of June. Like an echo, to the same [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1983

1983 BROOKLINE BIRD CLUB STATISTICAL REPORT During 1983 the Brookline Bird Club listed 300 Massachusetts species, and identified an additional six hybrids, subspecies, color morphs, or exotics, totaling 306 in all. Trips to Maine added [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1982

1982 STATISTICAL REPORT  In 1982 the Brookline Bird Club enriched its Massachu-setts Life Species List to 376 with the addition of Townsend's Solitaire, viewed at West Tisbury on January 3rd. Dr. Bob Timberlake’s Falmouth trip [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1981

1981 STATISTICAL REPORT “My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing There isn’t a [bird trip] I wouldn’t take No matter where it’s going!” (with apologies to [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1980

1980 STATISTICAL REPORT  During 1980 the Brookline Bird Club observed 313 species of birds as follows: Massachusetts, 299 species; New Hampshire, two additional species; New Jersey to North Carolina, 12 additional species. The 14 species [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1985

STATISTICAL REPORT 1985 by Mary L. Barnett, Statistician “Come in, Barn Owl. We're at the Salt Pans. The Tundra Swan just landed.” BBC CB Radio Patrol 12-7-1985 The Birding Highlight of 1985 was the proliferation [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1984

STATISTICAL REPORT-1984  Our Life List is a storehouse of rich memories to which we added this year the monarch of shorebirds, the Long-billed Curlew, on the 9th of June. Like an echo, to the same [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1983

1983 BROOKLINE BIRD CLUB STATISTICAL REPORT During 1983 the Brookline Bird Club listed 300 Massachusetts species, and identified an additional six hybrids, subspecies, color morphs, or exotics, totaling 306 in all. Trips to Maine added [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1982

1982 STATISTICAL REPORT  In 1982 the Brookline Bird Club enriched its Massachu-setts Life Species List to 376 with the addition of Townsend's Solitaire, viewed at West Tisbury on January 3rd. Dr. Bob Timberlake’s Falmouth trip [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1981

1981 STATISTICAL REPORT “My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing There isn’t a [bird trip] I wouldn’t take No matter where it’s going!” (with apologies to [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1980

1980 STATISTICAL REPORT  During 1980 the Brookline Bird Club observed 313 species of birds as follows: Massachusetts, 299 species; New Hampshire, two additional species; New Jersey to North Carolina, 12 additional species. The 14 species [...]

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