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
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