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Millennium Park, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

Jun 14, 2026 7:43 AM – 10:13 AM

Protocol: Traveling

0.865 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Mass Audubon Boston Nature Center and Brookline Bird Club walk, Correne George, Neil Calabro, Mike McCarthy co-leaders.

41 species

Mallard  16    Ducklings

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  2

Mourning Dove  9

Chimney Swift  8

Killdeer  4    Adults with 2 chicks

Spotted Sandpiper  2    Bathing at Canoe Launch

Great Egret  1

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  1

Osprey (American)  2

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  1

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2

Eastern Wood-Pewee  1

Willow Flycatcher  2

Eastern Kingbird  1

Eastern Warbling Vireo  4

Fish Crow  2

Black-capped Chickadee  2

Tree Swallow  4

Purple Martin  1    Lone female or immature flying North from Cow Island Pond over the crest of the landfill. Good lighting and close distance from my position on the south facing slope showing a large swallow with gray on the head and chest and a dingy lower belly and gray collar around the neck

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  4

Barn Swallow (American)  6

White-breasted Nuthatch  2

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Eastern)  1

Gray Catbird  12

Northern Mockingbird  1

American Robin  7

Cedar Waxwing  10

House Finch  1

American Goldfinch  4

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  4

Swamp Sparrow  4

Orchard Oriole  2    Active nest discovered in top of cottonwood

Baltimore Oriole  6    Active nest discovered in cottonwood

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  16

Brown-headed Cowbird  5

Common Yellowthroat  6

Northern Yellow Warbler  9

Northern Cardinal  2

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  3    2 males in trees at summit parking lot one chasing the other. One male flying over the river.

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S360265055

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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