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

ANNUAL REPORT 2022

The Brookline Bird Club (BBC) recorded 276 species for 2022, based upon 204 reported trips. Of those, 264 species were recorded in Massachusetts, with 12 additional species reported from the out-of-state trips to New Hampshire [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 2021

Brookline Bird Club 2021 Statistical and Year-End Report By David Scott, Club Statistician The Brookline Bird Club recorded 270 species for 2021, based upon 206 reported trips. Two-hundred and sixty-five species were recorded in Massachusetts, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 2022

The Brookline Bird Club (BBC) recorded 276 species for 2022, based upon 204 reported trips. Of those, 264 species were recorded in Massachusetts, with 12 additional species reported from the out-of-state trips to New Hampshire [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 2021

Brookline Bird Club 2021 Statistical and Year-End Report By David Scott, Club Statistician The Brookline Bird Club recorded 270 species for 2021, based upon 206 reported trips. Two-hundred and sixty-five species were recorded in Massachusetts, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 2022

The Brookline Bird Club (BBC) recorded 276 species for 2022, based upon 204 reported trips. Of those, 264 species were recorded in Massachusetts, with 12 additional species reported from the out-of-state trips to New Hampshire [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 2021

Brookline Bird Club 2021 Statistical and Year-End Report By David Scott, Club Statistician The Brookline Bird Club recorded 270 species for 2021, based upon 206 reported trips. Two-hundred and sixty-five species were recorded in Massachusetts, [...]

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