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

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

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    Join the BBC on the Helen H out of Hyannis, MA to search for pelagic birds on an overnight trip to the Hydrographer Canyon area. For more information, fee, and registration info see: https://www.brooklinebirdclub.org/bbc-news/hydrographer-canyon-overnight-pelagics-registration/

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    Join the BBC on the Helen H out of Hyannis, MA to search for pelagic birds on an overnight trip to the Hydrographer Canyon area. For more information, fee, and registration info see: https://www.brooklinebirdclub.org/bbc-news/hydrographer-canyon-overnight-pelagics-registration/

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