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

Upton SF, Worcester, Massachusetts, US

May 4, 2024 7:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Protocol: Traveling

4.5 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk- Upton SF- leader Nick Paulson: 2 participants. Clear, chilly start but warming quickly, got windier towards end. Good mix of woodland birds. Some calling flyover highlights. Wood Turtle was a bonus sighting.

63 species

Canada Goose  6

Wood Duck  4

Mallard  1

Mourning Dove  14

Sandhill Crane  1    Flyover, called twice, going north. Wooden rattle slightly descending. Sounded high up well above the trees. New bird for me at this location.

Common Loon  1    Flyover calling.

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  16

Red-shouldered Hawk (lineatus Group)  2

Broad-winged Hawk  3

Great Horned Owl  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  4

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  4

Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2

Pileated Woodpecker  2

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  3

Eastern Phoebe  2

Great Crested Flycatcher  3

Blue-headed Vireo  1

Blue Jay  20

American Crow  4

Common Raven  2

Black-capped Chickadee  16

Tufted Titmouse  12

Tree Swallow  16

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  4

Red-breasted Nuthatch  10

Brown Creeper  4    Low amount.

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (caerulea)  2

House Wren (Northern)  1

Carolina Wren  1

European Starling  2

Gray Catbird  3

Eastern Bluebird  1

Veery  2

Hermit Thrush (faxoni/crymophilus)  1

American Robin  14

Cedar Waxwing  2

Pine Siskin  12    Several singles. One pair. And a small group. Irruption year, they sometimes breed here in spring after an irruption. The ones seen were feeding on oak flower buds.

American Goldfinch  7

Chipping Sparrow  8

Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  1

White-throated Sparrow  3

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  8

Eastern Towhee  5

Baltimore Oriole  3

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  30

Brown-headed Cowbird  12

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  25

Ovenbird  60    Singing sporadically throughout and in clusters of more birds in certain areas. 60-70 estimate, seemed low for area, but didn’t see any in pairs and only heard one female response.

Northern Waterthrush  3

Black-and-white Warbler  3

Common Yellowthroat  2

American Redstart  1

Northern Parula  2

Yellow Warbler (Northern)  4

Palm Warbler (Yellow)  1

Pine Warbler  14

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  9

Wilson’s Warbler  1

Scarlet Tanager  3

Northern Cardinal  8

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S171957234

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