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

Quabbin Reservoir–Gate 10, Hampshire, Massachusetts, US
Jul 6, 2019 7:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Comments:    SSBC/BBC trip, Glenn d’Entremont leader 3 participants
41 species
Hooded Merganser  1    female
Mourning Dove  2
Black-billed Cuckoo  1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  7
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  6
Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  4
Eastern Wood-Pewee  10
Acadian Flycatcher  3    gate 8 road, normal place, 2 birds “peep” or “peek”ing, then farther north one more song “pee-seeah”
Least Flycatcher  2
Eastern Phoebe  1
Eastern Kingbird  1
Yellow-throated Vireo  4
Blue-headed Vireo  2
Red-eyed Vireo  97
Blue Jay  7
Black-capped Chickadee  18
Tufted Titmouse  3
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  6
Brown Creeper  3
Veery  32
Hermit Thrush  4
Wood Thrush  3
American Robin  1
Gray Catbird  9
Cedar Waxwing  2
Chipping Sparrow  6
Eastern Towhee  14
Common Grackle  1
Ovenbird  53
Black-and-white Warbler  6
Common Yellowthroat  21
American Redstart  1
Blackburnian Warbler  7
Chestnut-sided Warbler  15
Black-throated Blue Warbler  14
Pine Warbler  17
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  1    with one juv, very streaked underparts, chased adult
Black-throated Green Warbler  13
Scarlet Tanager  16
Northern Cardinal  2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  3
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S58212913

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