Quabbin Reservoir–Gate 10, Hampshire, Massachusetts, US
Jul 3, 2016 7:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
4.5 mile(s)
Comments:     SSBC/BBC trip
49 species

Wood Duck  1     young bird, just a week or so out of the nest, no adult or siblings seen
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  1
Turkey Vulture  2
Broad-winged Hawk  3
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  2
Barred Owl (Northern)  1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  11
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  5
Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  7
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1
Pileated Woodpecker  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee  12
Acadian Flycatcher  1     on gate 8 road where historically there have been several, but first in 3-5 years
Least Flycatcher  2
Eastern Phoebe  1
Eastern Kingbird  1
Yellow-throated Vireo  3
Blue-headed Vireo  5
Red-eyed Vireo  76
Blue Jay  8
American Crow  2
Black-capped Chickadee  10
Tufted Titmouse  1
Red-breasted Nuthatch  2
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  8
Veery  29
Hermit Thrush  7
Wood Thrush  5
American Robin  3
Gray Catbird  5
Cedar Waxwing  8
Ovenbird  44
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  23
American Redstart  3
Magnolia Warbler  1
Blackburnian Warbler  5
Chestnut-sided Warbler  23
Black-throated Blue Warbler  27
Pine Warbler  19
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  1
Black-throated Green Warbler  16
Chipping Sparrow  7
Eastern Towhee  27
Scarlet Tanager  16
Northern Cardinal  1
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  2
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  3
American Goldfinch  1

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S30532151

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