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

2024 Annual Report

The Brookline Bird Club (BBC) recorded 283 species for 2024, with 274 species in Massachusetts (four more than 2023), and nine additional species reported from New Hampshire and Maine.  This total was based upon 262

2024 Annual Report

The Brookline Bird Club (BBC) recorded 283 species for 2024, with 274 species in Massachusetts (four more than 2023), and nine additional species reported from New Hampshire and Maine.  This total was based upon 262

2024 Annual Report

The Brookline Bird Club (BBC) recorded 283 species for 2024, with 274 species in Massachusetts (four more than 2023), and nine additional species reported from New Hampshire and Maine.  This total was based upon 262

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