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

Westboro WMA, Worcester, Massachusetts, US

Apr 20, 2026 6:00 AM – 8:45 AM

Protocol: Traveling

3.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk – Westboro WMA – Leader Nick Paulson – cold start, frost. Clear skies and little windy.

53 species

Canada Goose  10

Mute Swan  5

Wood Duck  4

Blue-winged Teal  1    Popped up for a moment in marsh between Big and Little Chauncy.

Mallard  3

Bufflehead  18

Common Merganser (North American)  3

Mourning Dove  8

Virginia Rail  2    1 seen, 2 heard.

Ring-billed Gull  3

Pied-billed Grebe  2

Double-crested Cormorant  2

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  1

Osprey (American)  1

Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  4

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2

Pileated Woodpecker  2    Pair

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1

Eastern Phoebe  1

Blue Jay  16

American Crow  2

Black-capped Chickadee  10

Tufted Titmouse  7

Tree Swallow  12

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  1

Barn Swallow (American)  4

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  6

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  2

Northern House Wren  2

Carolina Wren  1

European Starling  3

Northern Mockingbird  2

Eastern Bluebird  2

American Robin  25

House Finch  1

American Goldfinch  6

Chipping Sparrow  2

American Tree Sparrow  1    Continueing late bird by Big Chauncy.

White-throated Sparrow  16

Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  20

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  14

Swamp Sparrow  12

Eastern Towhee  3

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  30

Brown-headed Cowbird  3

Rusty Blackbird  2

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  20

Common Yellowthroat  1    First of spring. Singing by Little Chauncy canoe launch.

Palm Warbler (Yellow)  1

Pine Warbler  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  12

Northern Cardinal  8

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S324769565

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

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