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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

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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