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

Upton SF, Worcester, Massachusetts, US
06-May-2023 07:00 – 10:30
Protocol: Traveling
3.5 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk: Upton SF, leader Nick Paulson, 3 participants, cool to start, warming quickly, slow and quiet, no noticeable migrants.
43 species
Canada Goose  4
Wood Duck  3
Mallard  4
Hooded Merganser  14    3 females, 11 young.
Mourning Dove  4
Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  17    10 nests at rookery.
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1
Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1
Eastern Phoebe  2
Great Crested Flycatcher  1
Yellow-throated Vireo  1
Blue-headed Vireo  1
Blue Jay  8
Black-capped Chickadee  6
Tufted Titmouse  9
Tree Swallow  18
Brown Creeper  8    All singing birds.
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (caerulea)  2
House Wren  1
Gray Catbird  3
Eastern Bluebird  2
Veery  1
Hermit Thrush  3
American Robin  7
American Goldfinch  12
Chipping Sparrow  8
Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  6
Swamp Sparrow  1
Eastern Towhee  5
Baltimore Oriole  1
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  12
Brown-headed Cowbird  5
Common Grackle (Bronzed)  32
Ovenbird  40    Rather low number today, but singing throughout.
Worm-eating Warbler  1    Rare local breeder in area. Along loop trail by Dean Pond, went across water to south side of the pond and continued calling.
Northern Waterthrush  4
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  4
Yellow Warbler (Northern)  8
Pine Warbler  10
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  1
Northern Cardinal  6
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S136540987

And the Winner Is…

And the Winner Is... Congratulations to Kate McHugh, who has won the Migration Madness Membership Drive! Kate will receive their choice of a pair of binoculars or two tickets for one of our summer water

And the Winner Is…

And the Winner Is... Congratulations to Kate McHugh, who has won the Migration Madness Membership Drive! Kate will receive their choice of a pair of binoculars or two tickets for one of our summer water

And the Winner Is…

And the Winner Is... Congratulations to Kate McHugh, who has won the Migration Madness Membership Drive! Kate will receive their choice of a pair of binoculars or two tickets for one of our summer water

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