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

Westborough WMA, Worcester, Massachusetts, US
Apr 14, 2018 6:50 AM – 12:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
4.2 mile(s)
Comments:     BBC – Westboro Wildlife Management Area – Nickilas Paulson – 12 Participants – Pleasant early spring weather, good hawk migration.
52 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  13
Mute Swan  15
Wood Duck  10
Mallard  7
Ring-necked Duck  2
Bufflehead  9
Double-crested Cormorant  2
Great Blue Heron  1
Turkey Vulture  4
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Cooper’s Hawk  3
Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  14
hawk sp.  60     Likely mostly Red-tailed Hawks. Many distant Kettles. Good migration day for them.
Virginia Rail  1
Killdeer  3
Ring-billed Gull  7
Mourning Dove  6
Red-bellied Woodpecker  4
Downy Woodpecker  7
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  8
American Kestrel  1
Eastern Phoebe  13
Blue Jay  4
American Crow  9
Tree Swallow  14
Black-capped Chickadee  15
Tufted Titmouse  16
White-breasted Nuthatch  3
Golden-crowned Kinglet  3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  7
Eastern Bluebird  4
American Robin  27
European Starling  2
Palm Warbler (Yellow)  19
Pine Warbler  9
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  7
American Tree Sparrow  4     Single alone, single in mixed flock. Pair in mixed flock.
Chipping Sparrow  7
Field Sparrow  1
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  3
White-throated Sparrow  4
Song Sparrow  22
Swamp Sparrow  7
Eastern Towhee  2
Northern Cardinal  5
Red-winged Blackbird  12
Brown-headed Cowbird  6
Common Grackle  19
blackbird sp.  4     Only seen at bad angles in flight, but shape of Rusties.
House Finch  2
Purple Finch  1
American Goldfinch  18
House Sparrow  4

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S47311395

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