Westboro WMA, Worcester, Massachusetts, US

Apr 28, 2025 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Protocol: Traveling

3.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk – Westboro WMA – Leader Nick Paulson, 10 participants, cool start, warming quick, clear, mild breeze. Good waves of Y-rumps and Palms, no orioles yet, Sora and V Rails calling.

49 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  25

Mute Swan  10

Wood Duck  8

Mallard  2

Ring-necked Pheasant  1    Continuing male by parking lot.

Mourning Dove  8

Virginia Rail  2

Sora  1    Responded to me mimicking a distant Virginia Rail poorly. Little Chauncy marsh where it goes under road in. On the way out heard several times again and seen in a quick pop up flight, body hanging from wings legs dangling in hop flight, darker than V Rail, short yellow bill. Will add recording.

Spotted Sandpiper  2

Double-crested Cormorant  1

Great Egret  1

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  2

Osprey (American)  1

Bald Eagle  1

Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  1

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  5

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1

Eastern Kingbird  3

Warbling Vireo (Eastern)  4

Blue Jay  20

American Crow  6

Common Raven  1

Black-capped Chickadee  12

Tufted Titmouse  8

Tree Swallow  30

Barn Swallow (American)  1

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  5

Northern House Wren (Northern)  2

European Starling  2

Gray Catbird  5

American Robin  24

American Goldfinch  8

Chipping Sparrow  1

White-throated Sparrow  6

Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  9

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  12

Swamp Sparrow  7

Eastern Towhee  6

new world sparrow sp.  2    May have heard Junco, and a possible Field in flight.

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  40

Brown-headed Cowbird  15

Rusty Blackbird  6

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  18

Ovenbird  1

Black-and-white Warbler  1

Yellow Warbler (Northern)  5

Palm Warbler (Yellow)  14

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  80    Large early movement along Big Chauncy, spread out after, underestimate.

new world warbler sp.  2

Northern Cardinal  10

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S230608554