Westboro WMA, Worcester, Massachusetts, US

Apr 22, 2024 6:00 AM – 8:20 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.5 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk- Westboro WMA – Leader Nick Paulson – 4 participants. Cold start, clear, wind from NW. A few migrants and early arrivals, still ducks on the water. Little Chauncy and marsh still high and flooded.

46 species

Canada Goose  4

Mute Swan  14

Wood Duck  6

Mallard  4

Ring-necked Duck  13

Lesser Scaup  6

Bufflehead  4

Common Merganser (North American)  11

Pied-billed Grebe  1

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  4

Mourning Dove  8

Ring-billed Gull  1

Double-crested Cormorant  4

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  2

Osprey (carolinensis)  1

Broad-winged Hawk  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  3

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  4

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2

Blue Jay  12

American Crow  4

Black-capped Chickadee  10

Tufted Titmouse  6

Tree Swallow  15

Barn Swallow (American)  2

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  3

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (caerulea)  2

Carolina Wren  4

European Starling  4

Northern Mockingbird  3

Eastern Bluebird  2

American Robin  14

American Goldfinch  15

Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  1

White-throated Sparrow  30

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  14

Swamp Sparrow  20    A bunch singing through marsh, none seen.

Eastern Towhee  1

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  50

Brown-headed Cowbird  20

Rusty Blackbird  3    One singing in view in the sun.

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  20

Pine Warbler  2

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  2

Northern Cardinal  10

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S170010237