Willard Brook State Forest, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

25-Jun-2022 07:35 – 11:14

Checklist Comments:    65-80, sunny. Walked up the road and followed the orange Friends loop eventually cutting down to the brook.

31 species (+2 other taxa)

Mourning Dove  1

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  1

Broad-winged Hawk  1

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1    Young bird flying around parking lot, expected out here

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2

Eastern Wood-Pewee  2

Eastern Phoebe  3

Eastern Kingbird  2

Red-eyed Vireo  8

Blue Jay  4

Black-capped Chickadee  7

Tufted Titmouse  3

Red-breasted Nuthatch  2

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  4

Brown Creeper  8    Min, singing all over and a couple groups. One sunbathing for a minute or two

Veery  1

Hermit Thrush (faxoni/crymophilus)  3

Catharus sp.  1    Landed on a rock in the middle of the brook but kept its back to us

American Robin  7

Cedar Waxwing  2

American Goldfinch  2

Chipping Sparrow  4

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  1

Eastern Towhee  3

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Ovenbird  13    Min

Louisiana Waterthrush  1    Just one along the Brook, presume there were more further down

Black-and-white Warbler  3

Black-throated Blue Warbler  9    Min

Pine Warbler  5

Black-throated Green Warbler  1

new world warbler sp.  1    Probable Blackburnian distantly singing, doesn’t seem quite high enough in the recording but distant and I should check others for comparison. In hemlocks not too far from where Friend’s Loop crosses the road

Scarlet Tanager  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S125691182