Westborough WMA, Worcester, Massachusetts, US

May 2, 2022 6:00 AM – 8:07 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.743 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk – Leader Nick Paulson – 3 participants. Partly cloudy, no wind. A few migrants and some returning breeders.

46 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  6

Mute Swan  5

Mallard  7

Green-winged Teal (American)  2

Hooded Merganser  1

Mourning Dove  10

Yellow-billed/Black-billed Cuckoo  1    Flyover. Larger long bodied long tailed. Shallow wingbeats flight of cuckoo, with the long flowing shape of cuckoo. Didn’t call and no features to ID to species.

Virginia Rail (Virginia)  1

Killdeer  1

Common Loon  1

Great Blue Heron  1

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Bald Eagle  3    2 adult 1 juvenile

Red-bellied Woodpecker  4

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  3

Pileated Woodpecker  1

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  3

Warbling Vireo (Eastern)  7

Blue Jay  28

American Crow  3

Black-capped Chickadee  12

Tufted Titmouse  8

Tree Swallow  15

Barn Swallow (American)  3

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  4

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (caerulea)  3

House Wren (Northern)  2

European Starling  5

Gray Catbird  5

Northern Mockingbird  1

Eastern Bluebird  1

American Robin  25

House Finch  1

American Goldfinch  13

Chipping Sparrow  1

White-throated Sparrow  8

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  10

Swamp Sparrow  3

Eastern Towhee  4

Bobolink  1

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  40

Brown-headed Cowbird  30

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  25

Yellow Warbler (Northern)  18

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  16

Northern Cardinal  20

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  3

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S108758384