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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