Quabbin Reservoir–Gate 10, Hampshire, Massachusetts, US
Jul 7, 2018 7:00 AM – 1:15 PM
Protocol: Traveling
4.5 mile(s)
Comments:     SSBC/BBC trip, 10 participants
49 species

Hooded Merganser  1     female w/3 young
Ruffed Grouse  2     1 ad w/4 young, flushed another later
Red-shouldered Hawk  1
Broad-winged Hawk  5
Mourning Dove  2
Black-billed Cuckoo  2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  3
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  8
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  6
Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  3
Pileated Woodpecker  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee  7
Least Flycatcher  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  2
Eastern Kingbird  2
Yellow-throated Vireo  2
Blue-headed Vireo  3
Red-eyed Vireo  94
Blue Jay  10
American Crow  3     calling young bird at entance
Black-capped Chickadee  16
Tufted Titmouse  7
Red-breasted Nuthatch  3
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  5
Veery  26
Hermit Thrush  4
Wood Thrush  6
American Robin  4
Gray Catbird  5
Cedar Waxwing  12
Ovenbird  47
Black-and-white Warbler  6
Common Yellowthroat  17
American Redstart  3
Blackburnian Warbler  3
Chestnut-sided Warbler  22
Black-throated Blue Warbler  22
Pine Warbler  14
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  6
Black-throated Green Warbler  22
Chipping Sparrow  10
Song Sparrow  1
Eastern Towhee  13
Scarlet Tanager  16
Northern Cardinal  1
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  7
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  1
American Goldfinch  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S47242144

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