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 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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