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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Pop-up Prothonotary Warbler Trip (register please) at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord
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