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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

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