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

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

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

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