Westboro WMA, Worcester, Massachusetts, US

Sep 29, 2025 6:30 AM – 9:30 AM

Protocol: Traveling

3.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk – Westboro WMA – Leader Nick Paulson : cool start warming, humid, clear. Fog on water. Quiet except in pockets. More sparrows than warblers.

47 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  3

Mute Swan  1

Mallard  5

Mourning Dove  20

Ring-billed Gull  12

Pied-billed Grebe  1

Double-crested Cormorant  1

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  3

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  4

Pileated Woodpecker  1    Called distantly

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2

Merlin  1

Eastern Phoebe  2

Great Crested Flycatcher  1    Obstructed view. But larger flycatcher with grayish throat.

Warbling Vireo  1    Late. Singing as we were leaving at edge of parking lot.

Red-eyed Vireo  8

Blue Jay  24

American Crow  2

Black-capped Chickadee  20

Tufted Titmouse  6

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  5

Red-breasted Nuthatch  1

Northern House Wren (Northern)  3

Carolina Wren  1

Gray Catbird  25

Northern Mockingbird  1

Eastern Bluebird  4

Hermit Thrush  1

American Robin  14

Cedar Waxwing  3

House Finch  7

American Goldfinch  4

Chipping Sparrow  20

White-throated Sparrow  15

Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  8

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  18

Swamp Sparrow  40    Most common Sparrow. A couple large groups in corn fields.

Eastern Towhee  15

new world sparrow sp.  12    Thought I heard a few Lincoln’s, but never saw them very well.

Bobolink  5

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  20

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  2

Common Yellowthroat  2

Pine Warbler  2

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  3

new world warbler sp.  1    Probably CT Warbler calling. Picked up by merlin.

Scarlet Tanager  1

Northern Cardinal  6

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S277490138