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
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