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Bolton Flats WMA–Pine Hill Rd. Grasslands, Worcester, Massachusetts, US
10-Jun-2023 18:00 – 20:54
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk – Pine Hill Grassland section of Bolton Flats WMA. Leader Nickilas Paulson. 5 participants. Mix of sun and clouds and drizzle to start. Then we retreated when one larger cell, with lightning and wind, passed over the far field. After it passed, we had a great view of a full double rainbow. As we waited for the whip-poor-will’s we got to see the fog forming in the fields.
41 species
Wild Turkey  5
Mourning Dove  5
Common Nighthawk  3
Eastern Whip-poor-will  2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Killdeer  1
American Woodcock  2
Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  1
Great Horned Owl  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  2
Eastern Kingbird  4
Yellow-throated Vireo  3
Warbling Vireo (Eastern)  1
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Tree Swallow  8
Barn Swallow (American)  4
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  2
Gray Catbird  4
Northern Mockingbird  1
Eastern Bluebird  14
Veery  1
American Robin  13
Cedar Waxwing  4
House Finch  1
Grasshopper Sparrow  15    Minimum. Many seen. Several kept singing after sunset. Several birds seen carrying food, one carrying nesting material.
Chipping Sparrow  14
Field Sparrow  8
Vesper Sparrow  1
Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  2
Eastern Towhee  6
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  22
Brown-headed Cowbird  3
Common Grackle (Bronzed)  5
Ovenbird  1
American Redstart  1
Yellow Warbler (Northern)  1
Pine Warbler  2
Prairie Warbler  5
Northern Cardinal  2
Indigo Bunting  3
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S141260043

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