Quabbin Reservoir–Gate 10, Hampshire, Massachusetts, US

Jul 6, 2024 7:00 AM – 8:30 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    SSBC/BBC trip, Glenn d’Entremont leader, 2 participants, rain shortened this section of walk, went to South Quabbin instead

17 species

Wild Turkey  1

Broad-winged Hawk  1

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Red-eyed Vireo  5

Blue Jay  1

Black-capped Chickadee  7

Veery  3

Hermit Thrush  1

Wood Thrush  1

Eastern Towhee  1

Common Yellowthroat  2

Blackburnian Warbler  1

Chestnut-sided Warbler  3

Pine Warbler  1

Black-throated Green Warbler  2

Scarlet Tanager  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S187615708

Quabbin, south, Hampshire, Massachusetts, US

Jul 6, 2024 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.2 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    SSBC/BBC trip, Glenn d’Entremont leader, 2 participants

35 species

Wild Turkey  3    w/19 young

Mourning Dove  2

Turkey Vulture  4

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  7

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  4

Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  5

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1

Eastern Wood-Pewee  3

Eastern Phoebe  1

Yellow-throated Vireo  7

Red-eyed Vireo  26

Blue Jay  4

Black-capped Chickadee  3

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  5

Gray Catbird  5

Veery  5

Hermit Thrush  3

American Robin  12

Cedar Waxwing  5

American Goldfinch  6

Chipping Sparrow  11

Song Sparrow  2

Eastern Towhee  7

Baltimore Oriole  2

Brown-headed Cowbird  2

Ovenbird  4

Black-and-white Warbler  9

Common Yellowthroat  3

American Redstart  7

Chestnut-sided Warbler  1

Black-throated Blue Warbler  1

Pine Warbler  4

Prairie Warbler  1

Scarlet Tanager  2

Indigo Bunting  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S187615719

Lake Wallace, Hampshire, Massachusetts, US

Jul 6, 2024 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM

Protocol: Traveling

0.25 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    SSBC/BBC trip, Glenn d’Entremont leader, 2 participants

18 species

Canada Goose  20

Wood Duck  3    plus 5 young

Mourning Dove  3

Green Heron  2

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2

Eastern Kingbird  1

Warbling Vireo (Eastern)  1

Common Raven  1

Tufted Titmouse  1

European Starling  X

Gray Catbird  4

American Robin  2

House Finch  1

Song Sparrow  3

Swamp Sparrow  1

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  10

Common Yellowthroat  1

Yellow Warbler (Northern)  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S187615720

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