Westboro WMA, Worcester, Massachusetts, US
May 13, 2024 6:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Brookline Bird Club walk- leader Nick Paulson, 4 participants. Cool start, warming, sunny then cloudy, then sunny. Wilson’s Warbler was the migrant of the day.
70 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose 9
Mute Swan 5
Wood Duck 2
Mallard 3
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 2
Mourning Dove 10
Black-billed Cuckoo 1
Chimney Swift 8
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Virginia Rail (Virginia) 1
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Great Blue Heron (Great Blue) 6
Bald Eagle 1
Red-tailed Hawk (borealis) 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 5
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) 4
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 2
Willow Flycatcher 1 Singing by Little Chauncy boat launch.
Least Flycatcher 2
Empidonax sp. 1 Heard load pit-sip call once. Didn’t call again to confirm snd not seen. Possible Acadian near old building by Big Chauncy a little ways after entrance.
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
Eastern Kingbird 8
Yellow-throated Vireo 3
Warbling Vireo (Eastern) 14
Blue Jay 6
American Crow 4
Tree Swallow 12
Barn Swallow (American) 5
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) 4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (caerulea) 3
House Wren (Northern) 4
Carolina Wren 3
European Starling 4
Gray Catbird 25 Estimate not counting as we went
Brown Thrasher 1
Eastern Bluebird 2
Wood Thrush 2
American Robin 15
Cedar Waxwing 1
House Finch 6
Pine Siskin 1
American Goldfinch 12
Chipping Sparrow 4
White-throated Sparrow 5
Savannah Sparrow (Savannah) 9
Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica) 14
Swamp Sparrow 8
Eastern Towhee 5
Orchard Oriole 5
Baltimore Oriole 7
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) 35
Brown-headed Cowbird 15
Common Grackle (Bronzed) 20
Ovenbird 2
Northern Waterthrush 4
Blue-winged Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Tennessee Warbler 1
Nashville Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 10
American Redstart 5
Northern Parula 4
Bay-breasted Warbler 1
Yellow Warbler (Northern) 20 Estimate not counting
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Pine Warbler 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 14
Wilson’s Warbler 11 The migrant warbler of the day. Minimum based on spacing of birds seen, at multiple points had multiple together up to 4 at once. 11-15 total birds. My highest amount at once in the county. Most along Lake Chauncy from entrance to corner. But also at Little Chauncy. Some singing in same spots as we walked out.
Northern Cardinal 14
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 6
Indigo Bunting 4
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S174592463
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