North side of Wachusett Reservoir, Worcester, Massachusetts, US
May 25, 2025 6:30 AM – 9:36 AM
Protocol: Traveling
4.7 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: BBC trip looking for species of interest to the state. Leader continued to Kristoff Farm alone afterwards and didn’t see any conservation target species. Highlights from 18 minutes (1013-1031) of birding at Kristoff: Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Bobolink, Indigo Bunting, and Blue-winged Warbler.
49 species (+3 other taxa)
Canada Goose 10
Mallard 6
Wild Turkey 3
Chimney Swift 100 not a careful count. swirling across a large section of the sky over grass, water, and cemetery island at fairly low altitude. Also a number of other groups of small numbers and at least two other groups of 10-20+ at other points in the trip.
Killdeer 6
Spotted Sandpiper 3
Ring-billed Gull 5
gull sp. 15 probably mostly or all ring-billed
Common Loon 4 low number. could have searched harder, but this is still less than I expected to see based on previous visits.
Double-crested Cormorant 5
Turkey Vulture 7
Osprey 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
American Kestrel 0
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 i may have forgot to note some of the other flycatchers
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Yellow-throated Vireo 1
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Warbling Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 6
Blue Jay 6
American Crow 1
crow sp. 3
Bank Swallow 12
Tree Swallow 25
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 15
swallow sp. 75 this count and the count for the other swallow species may be undercounts. Couldn’t or didn’t bother to put much time into identifying the many swallows over the water
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
European Starling 12
Gray Catbird 3
Northern Mockingbird 6
Eastern Bluebird 4
American Robin 3
Cedar Waxwing 4
House Sparrow 3
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 2
Grasshopper Sparrow 0
Chipping Sparrow 6
Savannah Sparrow 14
Song Sparrow 4
Eastern Towhee 1
Bobolink 2
Eastern Meadowlark 0
Baltimore Oriole 2
Red-winged Blackbird 20
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
Common Grackle 3
Ovenbird 3
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Pine Warbler 6 this may be and undercount, and I may have forgot to record some other warbler species.
Scarlet Tanager 1
Northern Cardinal 2
Indigo Bunting 1
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