Mount Greylock State Reservation, Berkshire, Massachusetts, US
Jun 14, 2025 6:00 AM – 2:45 PM
Protocol: Traveling
12.0 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: SSBC/BBC trip, Glenn d’Entremont leader; 3 participants-light rain with heavier rain until 9:30; birded this differently by not walking any trails until rain stopped. Made it to the top still stopping 1/2 miles to Jone’s Nose; then just traveled with windows open for sound of which there was little. Rain stopped around 9:30 and birded the mountain going down. Saddleball we actually done about the same time of day we normally do it; the rest were much later. Did not get Mourning this day; did have about 20 minutes on Sunday (6/15) morning before having to leave to get to meeting spot; was able to hear Mourning Warbler only about mile/mile 1/4 up from Lanesborough visitors center. One surprise-adult male Northern Parula in the parking lot at summit; singing and seen, male Blackburnian came in and pushed it out-moved around a bit-really LATE migrant?
52 species
Wild Turkey 2 first time on this trip-parking lot at visitor’s center
Barred Owl 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern) 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 2
Eastern Phoebe 2
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Blue-headed Vireo 2
Red-eyed Vireo 40 normal, in fact really low as usually 80-90
Blue Jay 3
American Crow 2
Common Raven 1
Black-capped Chickadee 4
Tufted Titmouse 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 2
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2
Northern House Wren 1
Winter Wren 3
Gray Catbird 3
Eastern Bluebird 2
Veery 3
Hermit Thrush 3
Wood Thrush 2
American Robin 14
Cedar Waxwing 1
Purple Finch (Eastern) 2
Chipping Sparrow 4
Field Sparrow 4
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 7
Eastern Towhee 6
Bobolink 3
Baltimore Oriole 1
Ovenbird 30
Black-and-white Warbler 4
Common Yellowthroat 9
American Redstart 1
Northern Parula 1 surprise of the day; adult male singing in the summit parking lot. small warbler with white belly & lower breast, mid-breast yellow with chestnut/rusty necklace, yellow throat & chin, pale bill, black lores, white eye arcs, blueish upper parts and wings with two white wing bars, green upside down triangle on back, song buzzy upward slurred note(s) dropping “over the top” at end; pushed out by male Blackburnian and the bird began to move around
Magnolia Warbler 4
Blackburnian Warbler 10
Chestnut-sided Warbler 12
Blackpoll Warbler 1 at summit; heard only once, but nothing to confuse it with
Black-throated Blue Warbler 7
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 3
Black-throated Green Warbler 7
Canada Warbler 2
Scarlet Tanager 2
Northern Cardinal 1
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2
Indigo Bunting 7
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Post Farm Marsh, Lenox, Berkshire, Massachusetts, US
Jun 14, 2025 6:15 PM – 7:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
0.5 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: SSBC/BBC trip, Glenn d’Entremont leader; 2 participants
36 species
Canada Goose 2
Wood Duck 1
Mourning Dove 5
Virginia Rail 2
Great Blue Heron (Great Blue) 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) 3
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Willow Flycatcher 2
Least Flycatcher 1
Eastern Kingbird 1
Red-eyed Vireo 3
Black-capped Chickadee 3
Barn Swallow (American) 1
Marsh Wren 6
European Starling X
Gray Catbird 6
Veery 12
Wood Thrush 3
American Robin 5
Cedar Waxwing 2
House Sparrow X
Purple Finch (Eastern) 1
American Goldfinch 2
Chipping Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 5
Swamp Sparrow 8
Baltimore Oriole 1
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) 15
Common Grackle 3
Common Yellowthroat 3
American Redstart 2
Yellow Warbler (Northern) 12
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1
Scarlet Tanager 1
Northern Cardinal 1
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