Westboro WMA, Worcester, Massachusetts, US

Sep 22, 2025 6:30 AM – 9:30 AM

Protocol: Traveling

3.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk – Westboro WMA – Leader Nick Paulson. Foggy to start, cool but warming. Focused on CT Warbler habitat first with no luck. Had a few good mixed flocks and good mix of early sparrows.

46 species (+2 other taxa)

Wood Duck  9

Mallard  4

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  1

Mourning Dove  6

Killdeer  4

Ring-billed Gull  24

American Herring Gull  1

Double-crested Cormorant  5

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  2

Sharp-shinned Hawk (Northern)  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  5

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  4

Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Pileated Woodpecker  2    One bird following us around, then two near each other.

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1

Least Flycatcher  1    Small plain flycatcher. Usually stay late here. In mixed flock at Little Chauncy.

Eastern Phoebe  6

Red-eyed Vireo  12    Mixed in with other flocks. Then as we were leaving 6+ in the parking lot.

Blue Jay  25

American Crow  15

Black-capped Chickadee  18

Tufted Titmouse  10

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  5

European Starling  1

Gray Catbird  25

American Robin  10

Cedar Waxwing  1

House Finch  8

American Goldfinch  12

Chipping Sparrow  1

White-throated Sparrow  8

Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  20

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  8

Lincoln’s Sparrow  1

Swamp Sparrow  2

Eastern Towhee  5

new world sparrow sp.  5

Bobolink  4

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  8

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  10

blackbird sp.  1    Possible Rusty at Little Chauncy, only called once.

Black-and-white Warbler  1

Common Yellowthroat  1

Northern Parula  3

Magnolia Warbler  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  1

Prairie Warbler  1    Heard making a piece of the song.

Northern Cardinal  6

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S275306344

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