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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

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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