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

Weston Station Pond, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 4, 2026 9:11 AM – 11:36 AM

Protocol: Traveling

0.983 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Most of count reasonably precise except icterids, song/chipping and swallows.  Misses that were probably (or should have been) there:  YR warbler, RC kinglet (Merlin “heard” but it evaded our ears and eyes) and field sparrow.  Highlights were broad-winged hawk, pair of coopers, first great crested flycatcher of season.

37 species

Canada Goose  7

Wood Duck  1

Mallard  1

Double-crested Cormorant  8

Great Blue Heron  3

Turkey Vulture  1

Cooper’s Hawk  2

Broad-winged Hawk  1

Red-tailed Hawk  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Downy Woodpecker  4

Northern Flicker  1

Eastern Phoebe  1

Great Crested Flycatcher  1

Eastern Warbling Vireo  3

Black-capped Chickadee  8

Tufted Titmouse  10

Tree Swallow  20

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  2

Barn Swallow  3

Brown Creeper  1

Northern House Wren  2

Carolina Wren  2

European Starling  11

Northern Mockingbird  1

Eastern Bluebird  2

American Robin  7

House Finch  3

American Goldfinch  12

Chipping Sparrow  5

Song Sparrow  4

Red-winged Blackbird  20

Brown-headed Cowbird  3

Common Grackle  6

Northern Yellow Warbler  1

Pine Warbler  2

Northern Cardinal  3

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S332612091

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