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Bartlett Pond, Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, US

Oct 20, 2024 7:22 AM – 7:47 AM

Protocol: Stationary

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk – Westboro WMA – Leader Nickilas Paulson – 5 participants – also Forbush Bird Club Walk. Cold start, warmed later. Sunny, very little wind, glassy water on lakes. Lots of fall colors to leaves. Meeting location birds.

24 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  18

Mallard  14

Green-winged Teal (American)  3

duck sp.  2    2 ducks in the fog in flight that struck me a different and smaller than mallard, possibly Gadwall.

Mourning Dove  1

Killdeer  1

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  1

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Blue Jay  3

American Crow  2

Black-capped Chickadee  1

Golden-crowned Kinglet  1

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  1

Carolina Wren  1

European Starling  2

American Robin  5

American Pipit  4

White-throated Sparrow  2

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  1

Swamp Sparrow  2

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  30

Rusty Blackbird  23    Several groups flying by heading NE. A few stopped in trees above boat launch and sang.

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  2

Northern Cardinal  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S199695056

Westboro WMA, Worcester, Massachusetts, US

Oct 20, 2024 7:45 AM – 10:20 AM

Protocol: Traveling

3.1 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk – Westboro WMA – Leader Nickilas Paulson – 4 participants – section 2. also Forbush Bird Club Walk. Cold start, warmed later. Sunny, very little wind, glassy water on lakes. Lots of fall colors to leaves. Good pockets of birds, White-throated Sparrows throughout.

45 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  14

Mute Swan  12

Mallard  11

Mourning Dove  8

Yellow-billed/Black-billed Cuckoo  1    Late. Flew out of bushes in model airplane field towards road. Flew in direction of the sun, so unable to get any color to identify to species.

Wilson’s Snipe  1

Ring-billed Gull  8

Double-crested Cormorant  1

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  1

Cooper’s Hawk  2

Bald Eagle  1

Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  3

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  11

Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  4

Eastern Phoebe  3

Blue Jay  18

American Crow  26

Black-capped Chickadee  20

Tufted Titmouse  5

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  8

Golden-crowned Kinglet  3

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  5

Carolina Wren  5

European Starling  4

Northern Mockingbird  8

Eastern Bluebird  16

American Robin  10

American Pipit  2

House Finch  5

American Goldfinch  8

Chipping Sparrow  2

Spizella sp.  1    Maybe field

White-throated Sparrow  140

Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  6

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  22

Swamp Sparrow  9

Bobolink  3    3 late birds perched out on cornstalks in the lower soy field. Flew out heading south.

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  100

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  400

Northern Parula  1    Late. Near entrance in top of aspen. Very small warbler, white below, white undertail, a little yellow to throat, blue-gray above.

Palm Warbler  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  50

Black-throated Green Warbler  1    Late. Looked like duller first winter bird, two dull gray-black streak lines down side of breast, white wing-bars, olive back, yellow olive face pattern.

Northern Cardinal  18

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S199695053

Wayne MacCallum Wildlife Management Area, Worcester, Massachusetts, US

Oct 20, 2024 10:50 AM – 12:20 PM

Protocol: Traveling

2.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk – Westboro WMA – Leader Nickilas Paulson – 5 participants – also Forbush Bird Club Walk. Cold start, warmed later. Sunny, very little wind, glassy water on lakes. Lots of fall colors to leaves. Last section of trip.

26 species

Ring-necked Pheasant  5    Obvious releases. 2 males seen, some females heard.

Mourning Dove  2

Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  2

Red-bellied Woodpecker  1

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2

Pileated Woodpecker  2    Pair together.

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1

Eastern Phoebe  1

Blue Jay  10

American Crow  6

Black-capped Chickadee  5

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  3

Brown Creeper  1

Gray Catbird  1

Eastern Bluebird  6

American Robin  3

American Pipit  3

House Finch  1

American Goldfinch  3

White-throated Sparrow  6

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  8

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  18

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  2

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  6

Northern Cardinal  5

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S199695059

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Bring Back Bobolinks! This year the BBC is introducing new Endangered Species Program. Each year we plan to focus on a single bird species facing serious threats in Massachusetts and elsewhere. With this effort we

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