Westboro WMA, Worcester, Massachusetts, US

May 12, 2025 5:55 AM – 8:49 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.521 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk-Westboro WMA- Leader Nick Paulson, 3 participants, cold start, 39 degrees, warming to 61 degrees, wind switching to the south, a few migrants here and there.

57 species

Canada Goose  8

Mute Swan  8

Wood Duck  7

Mallard  11

Mourning Dove  16

Chimney Swift  7

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  5

Killdeer  2

Spotted Sandpiper  4

Ring-billed Gull  1

Double-crested Cormorant  3

Bald Eagle  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  3

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2

Great Crested Flycatcher  4

Eastern Kingbird  8

Warbling Vireo (Eastern)  17    8 along Big Chauncy, 3 back wooded ponds, 6 Little Chauncy

Blue Jay  16

American Crow  7

Black-capped Chickadee  8

Tufted Titmouse  16

Tree Swallow  30

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  3

Barn Swallow (American)  7

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  2

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Eastern)  3

Northern House Wren (Northern)  1

Gray Catbird  33

Veery  1

American Robin  48

American Goldfinch  14

Chipping Sparrow  5

White-throated Sparrow  1

Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  17

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  12

Swamp Sparrow  11

Eastern Towhee  4

Orchard Oriole  2

Baltimore Oriole  20

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  52

Brown-headed Cowbird  7

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  21

Ovenbird  1

Northern Waterthrush  2

Blue-winged Warbler  1

Black-and-white Warbler  3

Common Yellowthroat  7

American Redstart  11

Northern Parula  1

Magnolia Warbler  1

Yellow Warbler (Northern)  36    All over, tried to keep an accurate as we went.

Blackpoll Warbler  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  9

Wilson’s Warbler  1

Scarlet Tanager  1

Northern Cardinal  11

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  8

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S237069783

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