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

Mount Greylock State Reservation, Berkshire, Massachusetts, US

Jun 15, 2024 6:00 AM – 2:15 PM

Protocol: Traveling

15.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC/SSBC trip, Glenn d’Entremont leader, 1 participant

54 species

Mourning Dove  1

Chimney Swift  1

Barred Owl  1

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  7

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1

Eastern Wood-Pewee  2

Eastern Phoebe  1

Eastern Kingbird  1

Yellow-throated Vireo  3

Blue-headed Vireo  9

Red-eyed Vireo  83

Blue Jay  5

American Crow  2

Black-capped Chickadee  6

Tufted Titmouse  2

Tree Swallow  2

Golden-crowned Kinglet  5

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  1

Red-breasted Nuthatch  2

Brown Creeper  2

House Wren  1

Winter Wren  6

Gray Catbird  4

Eastern Bluebird  1

Veery  9

Swainson’s Thrush  1

Hermit Thrush  5

American Robin  26

Cedar Waxwing  3

Purple Finch  5

Red Crossbill  25    heard a couple from the campground, the balance from Saddleball trail; could never see any as they flew over; could have been as many as 50 or little as 10, but the same group would have to keep flying over/in circles

Pine Siskin  2

Chipping Sparrow  4

Field Sparrow  3

Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  23

White-throated Sparrow  1    on the saddleball trail, the first one since about 15 years.  Wind conditions made the top impossible to say if any change, but no WTSP recorded there; bird winking out at Greylock

Eastern Towhee  11

Ovenbird  62

Black-and-white Warbler  5

Mourning Warbler  1

Common Yellowthroat  6

American Redstart  13

Magnolia Warbler  1

Blackburnian Warbler  19

Chestnut-sided Warbler  17

Black-throated Blue Warbler  14

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  5

Black-throated Green Warbler  7

Canada Warbler  3

Scarlet Tanager  6

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  4

Indigo Bunting  9

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S183260675

Post Farm Marsh, Lenox, Berkshire, Massachusetts, US

Jun 15, 2024 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM

Protocol: Traveling

0.5 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC/SSBC trip, Glenn d’Entremont leader, 1 participant

32 species

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  X

Mourning Dove  3

Virginia Rail  1

Least Bittern  1    heard “oo-oo-oo” and thought cuckoo?; then heard again thought “sounds like a Least Bittern” and the third time I had got to the bridge and the bird called from cattails on the river side (quite more extensive since the last time I was there) and before I put the scope down it flew out toward the two rusted electrical wire stanchions.  It was still calling when I left

Belted Kingfisher  1    female

Pileated Woodpecker  1

Eastern Kingbird  1

Warbling Vireo (Eastern)  2

Red-eyed Vireo  3

Blue Jay  1

Black-capped Chickadee  1

Tree Swallow  5

Barn Swallow (American)  1

Marsh Wren  6

European Starling  X

Gray Catbird  3

Veery  4

American Robin  4

Cedar Waxwing  3

House Finch  4

American Goldfinch  4

Field Sparrow  1

Song Sparrow  4

Swamp Sparrow  6

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  30

Common Grackle  4

Ovenbird  2

Common Yellowthroat  3

Yellow Warbler (Northern)  6

Chestnut-sided Warbler  2

Scarlet Tanager  1

Indigo Bunting  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S183260691

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