Brookline Bird Club – America’s most active bird club!

Westboro WMA, Worcester, Massachusetts, US

Apr 29, 2024 6:00 AM – 8:24 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.8 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk- Westboro WMA- 6 participants, warm start, partially sunny, low wind, a good amount of migrants with several new species arriving.

57 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  11

Mute Swan  14

Wood Duck  4

Mallard  6

Bufflehead  9    Continuing on Lake Chauncy.

Common Merganser (North American)  3

Wild Turkey  4

Mourning Dove  6

Chimney Swift  1

Double-crested Cormorant  8

Green Heron  2

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  1

Bald Eagle  1

Broad-winged Hawk  1

Belted Kingfisher  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  3

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  6

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  4

Least Flycatcher  1    Back fields.

Eastern Kingbird  4

Warbling Vireo (Eastern)  5

Blue Jay  12

American Crow  10

Black-capped Chickadee  15

Tufted Titmouse  12

Tree Swallow  4

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  2

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  5

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (caerulea)  7    2 pairs. 3 singles.

Carolina Wren  3

European Starling  6

Gray Catbird  1

Eastern Bluebird  1

American Robin  20

American Goldfinch  12

Chipping Sparrow  4

White-throated Sparrow  20

Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  20

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  14

Swamp Sparrow  3

Eastern Towhee  6

Orchard Oriole  1

Baltimore Oriole  1

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  24

Brown-headed Cowbird  16

Rusty Blackbird  1

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  20

Northern Waterthrush  1

Black-and-white Warbler  5    Several singles singing, calling and seen in various spots.

American Redstart  1

Yellow Warbler (Northern)  8    Seemed to be mostly males. Several fighting over territory.

Black-throated Blue Warbler  1    Singing in back fields.

Palm Warbler (Western)  1    Seen well where the gate is by where the Little Chauncy marsh flows under the road in. Adult breeding, tail pumping but plainer than Eastern Palm.  Yellow undertail coverts, whiter belly with dark streaks, yellow throat, white in the facial lines, with a little yellow from the eye to the bill, grayer back, rufous crown.

Palm Warbler (Yellow)  4

Pine Warbler  4

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  25

Northern Cardinal  14

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  6    4 singing males. 2 females.

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S171043856

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