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

Westborough WMA, Worcester, Massachusetts, US
May 16, 2022 6:00 AM – 8:28 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.8 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Trip-Westboro WMA-Leader Nick Paulson – 2 participants. Warm and muggy. Slow start but large group of warblers along trail to 3 ragweed/back fields towards Kimball Lane. Mostly made up of Magnolias and Parulas.
60 species
Canada Goose  4
Mute Swan  5
Wood Duck  5
Mallard  2
Mourning Dove  6
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  3
Killdeer  2
Spotted Sandpiper  5
Ring-billed Gull  1
Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  2
Green Heron  1    Distant call.
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  3
Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1
Willow Flycatcher  4
Great Crested Flycatcher  1
Eastern Kingbird  3
Yellow-throated Vireo  1
Warbling Vireo (Eastern)  8
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Blue Jay  4
American Crow  3
Black-capped Chickadee  9
Tufted Titmouse  6
Tree Swallow  3
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (caerulea)  4
House Wren (Northern)  3
European Starling  6
Gray Catbird  15
Northern Mockingbird  1
Wood Thrush  1
American Robin  12
American Goldfinch  8
Chipping Sparrow  10
White-throated Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  12
Swamp Sparrow  1
Eastern Towhee  2
Orchard Oriole  2
Baltimore Oriole  8
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  18
Brown-headed Cowbird  6
Common Grackle (Bronzed)  7
Ovenbird  1
Northern Waterthrush  1
Black-and-white Warbler  6
Common Yellowthroat  5
American Redstart  3
Northern Parula  8
Magnolia Warbler  10
Blackburnian Warbler  1
Yellow Warbler (Northern)  20
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Black-throated Green Warbler  3
Canada Warbler  1
Northern Cardinal  4
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  6
Indigo Bunting  1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S110434483

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