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

Wachusett Reservoir, Gate 35, Worcester, Massachusetts, US
Jun 12, 2021 8:00 AM – 11:45 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.6 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:    Successful BBC conservation series field trip.  4 common loons, including one on a nest.  1 adult bald eagle feeding 2 young in the nest.
43 species (+4 other taxa)
Mourning Dove  2
Yellow-billed/Black-billed Cuckoo  1
Spotted Sandpiper  4    possibly an undercount.  At least two pairs at two different parts of the reservoir
gull sp.  1
Common Loon  4    seemingly 2 pairs.  one bird on nest
Great Blue Heron  2
Bald Eagle  3    1 adult feeding 2 young in nest
hawk sp.  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  3
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee  5
Great Crested Flycatcher  2
Eastern Kingbird  1
Yellow-throated Vireo  2
Warbling Vireo  1
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Blue Jay  2
American Crow  1
crow sp.  1
Black-capped Chickadee  3
Tufted Titmouse  4
Tree Swallow  1
Barn Swallow  2
White-breasted Nuthatch  2
Brown Creeper  2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  2
Gray Catbird  2
Wood Thrush  2
American Robin  6
American Goldfinch  2
Chipping Sparrow  2
Eastern Towhee  4
Baltimore Oriole  5
Red-winged Blackbird  2
Brown-headed Cowbird  2
Common Grackle  5
Ovenbird  8
Black-and-white Warbler  1
American Redstart  1
Magnolia Warbler  1
Yellow Warbler  3
Pine Warbler  2
Prairie Warbler  1
Scarlet Tanager  4
Northern Cardinal  3
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  3
Indigo Bunting  1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S90132481

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