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

Plymouth Airport, Plymouth, Massachusetts, US

May 25, 2024 7:51 AM – 10:47 AM

Protocol: Traveling

0.75 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    SSBC Trip lead by G. D’Entremont. 28 Participants

45 species

Canada Goose  8

Wild Turkey  2

Mourning Dove  2

Killdeer  2

Double-crested Cormorant  1

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  1

Turkey Vulture  2    Including a confusing first year bird, circling in mostly level flight, without dihedral. Black head, longer tail, white primaries and secondaries (though this was tough to judge with it being heavily backlit). Molting some primaries and rectrices

Osprey (carolinensis)  1

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Red-shouldered Hawk (lineatus Group)  2

Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  1

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1

Eastern Wood-Pewee  1

Great Crested Flycatcher  1

Eastern Kingbird  4

Blue Jay  2

American Crow  2

Fish Crow  1

Black-capped Chickadee  2

Tufted Titmouse  1

Horned Lark  2

Barn Swallow (American)  4

House Wren  1

Carolina Wren  1

European Starling  1

Gray Catbird  2

Brown Thrasher  0

Northern Mockingbird  1

American Robin  1

House Sparrow  X

American Goldfinch  2

Grasshopper Sparrow  1

Chipping Sparrow  1

Field Sparrow  3

Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  9

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  3

Eastern Towhee  3

Eastern Meadowlark (Eastern)  8

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Ovenbird  3

Common Yellowthroat  1

Pine Warbler  2

Prairie Warbler  4

Northern Cardinal  1

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S177250399

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th

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