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

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S252899143

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

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S252899147

And the Winner Is…

And the Winner Is... Congratulations to Kate McHugh, who has won the Migration Madness Membership Drive! Kate will receive their choice of a pair of binoculars or two tickets for one of our summer water

And the Winner Is…

And the Winner Is... Congratulations to Kate McHugh, who has won the Migration Madness Membership Drive! Kate will receive their choice of a pair of binoculars or two tickets for one of our summer water

And the Winner Is…

And the Winner Is... Congratulations to Kate McHugh, who has won the Migration Madness Membership Drive! Kate will receive their choice of a pair of binoculars or two tickets for one of our summer water

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