Westborough WMA, Worcester, Massachusetts, US
May 8, 2017 5:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
6.0 mile(s)
Comments: BBC – Westboro Wildlife Management Area – Nickilas Paulson – Nice day of birding, good mix of early migrants and marsh birds. Trip was for two and a half hours, but I continued to hike after adding a few species.
82 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose 11
Mute Swan 10
Wood Duck 11
Mallard 10
Green-winged Teal (American) 1
Wild Turkey 2
Double-crested Cormorant 1
American Bittern 2 Male calling 5:00-5:45. Female responded once.
Least Bittern 1 Female grunt call. About halfway from little Chauncey entrance to dike. Calling near east shore. Not heard after 5:30.
Great Blue Heron 2
Turkey Vulture 2
Osprey 2
Red-tailed Hawk 3
Virginia Rail 4
Killdeer 6
Solitary Sandpiper 1
Mourning Dove 12
Black-billed Cuckoo 1
Chimney Swift 7
Belted Kingfisher 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Downy Woodpecker 6
Hairy Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 4
Pileated Woodpecker 2
American Kestrel 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Eastern Phoebe 2
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
Eastern Kingbird 3
Yellow-throated Vireo 3
Warbling Vireo 13
Red-eyed Vireo 6
Blue Jay 21
American Crow 8
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 8
Tree Swallow 26
Barn Swallow 9
Black-capped Chickadee 18
Tufted Titmouse 15
White-breasted Nuthatch 5
Brown Creeper 2
House Wren 5
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 12 Large area covered. Singles and pairs throughout
Eastern Bluebird 1
Veery 6
Swainson’s Thrush 1
Hermit Thrush 1
Wood Thrush 3
American Robin 27
Gray Catbird 34 2 nests being built
Northern Mockingbird 4
European Starling 24
Ovenbird 18
Northern Waterthrush 4
Blue-winged Warbler 11 Rather quiet day for them or they have not all returned yet.
Black-and-white Warbler 9
Common Yellowthroat 22
American Redstart 6
Northern Parula 2
Yellow Warbler 38 Conservative count. Large area covered. 3 nests being built.
Pine Warbler 4
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 34
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle x Audubon’s) 1 Heard an odd warbler song, kept looking around until I realized it was the Yellow-rump. Audubon traits: split white spectacles no white eyebrow, song, chwit call, bold thick black breast band, gray not dark cheek. Myrtle trait- white wing bars rather than patch. Mix, the throat was partially yellow with white below the yellow.
Chipping Sparrow 6
White-throated Sparrow 4
Savannah Sparrow (Savannah) 2
Song Sparrow 24
Swamp Sparrow 13
Eastern Towhee 14
Scarlet Tanager 8
Northern Cardinal 12
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 25 Riverside trail on west side had over a dozen itself. Others spread throughout
Indigo Bunting 1
Bobolink 1
Red-winged Blackbird 34
Rusty Blackbird 2 Male and female near the new beaver pond north of the smokestack.
Common Grackle 40
Brown-headed Cowbird 24
Orchard Oriole 3 3 males
Baltimore Oriole 18
Purple Finch 1
American Goldfinch 13
View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S37052019
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