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

Wompatuck SP, Plymouth, Massachusetts, US
Apr 29, 2018 6:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Protocol: Traveling
5.0 mile(s)
Comments:     Brookline Bird Club walk led by Eddie Giles.
30 species

Mallard  2     Flyovers
Double-crested Cormorant  16     Flyovers
Turkey Vulture  2
Broad-winged Hawk  1
Herring Gull  1     Flyover
Mourning Dove  6
Barred Owl (Northern)  2     Silent pair perched together in a white pine at a distance of about 30 feet away.  Alerted to their presence by the alarm calls of a gray squirrel.  In general vicinity of pair observed on 4/22 and presumed to be the same birds.
Red-bellied Woodpecker  3
Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  3
Eastern Phoebe  3
Blue Jay  14     Including one raucous flock of 10 birds.
Fish Crow  3
Black-capped Chickadee  12
Tufted Titmouse  8
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  4
Winter Wren  2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  12
American Robin  6
Ovenbird  4
Northern Waterthrush  1     ‘Rare’ looks at a perched, singing male.
Black-and-white Warbler  6
Palm Warbler  3
Pine Warbler  12
Chipping Sparrow  16
Song Sparrow  1
Eastern Towhee  10
Northern Cardinal  2
Red-winged Blackbird  1
Brown-headed Cowbird  8
House Finch  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S45380785

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