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

Suffield WMA, Hartford, Connecticut, US

Jul 12, 2026 7:30 AM – 9:30 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Trip – Southwick WMA – Leader Nick Paulson. No participants showed up. Decided to bird on the CT side at Suffield WMA down to marsh and back. Trails more overgrown on CT side. Lots of dog ticks, pulled off maybe 120 or so.

69 species

Canada Goose  2

Mallard  1

Mourning Dove  10

Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1

Chimney Swift  6

Virginia Rail  1

Spotted Sandpiper  1

American Bittern  1

Great Blue Heron  2

Turkey Vulture  2

Osprey  1

Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  2

Red-bellied Woodpecker  4

Downy Woodpecker  2

Hairy Woodpecker  3

Pileated Woodpecker  1

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  7

American Kestrel  2

Eastern Wood-Pewee  7

Alder Flycatcher  1

Eastern Phoebe  3

Eastern Kingbird  11

Eastern Warbling Vireo  7

Red-eyed Vireo  4

Blue Jay  8

American Crow  14

Black-capped Chickadee  7

Tufted Titmouse  12

Bank Swallow  50

Tree Swallow  150

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  10

Barn Swallow  75

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  8

Red-breasted Nuthatch  1

Northern House Wren  1

Carolina Wren  2

European Starling  14

Gray Catbird  8

Brown Thrasher  7

Northern Mockingbird  4

Eastern Bluebird  3

Veery  1

Wood Thrush  2

American Robin  30

Cedar Waxwing  12

House Sparrow  2

House Finch  3

American Goldfinch  28

Grasshopper Sparrow  9

Chipping Sparrow  4

Field Sparrow  10

Vesper Sparrow  1    Calling straight out from parking area along the state line.

Savannah Sparrow  2

Song Sparrow  9

Eastern Towhee  9

Bobolink  26

Baltimore Oriole  1

Red-winged Blackbird  60

Common Grackle  26

Blue-winged Warbler  1

Common Yellowthroat  24

Northern Yellow Warbler  6

Chestnut-sided Warbler  1

Prairie Warbler  1

Canada Warbler  1

Scarlet Tanager  3

Northern Cardinal  9

Blue Grosbeak  1    Young bird. Rufous brown all over with large bill.

Indigo Bunting  18

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S371343542

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