Wompatuck SP, Plymouth, Massachusetts, US
May 7, 2017 6:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
5.5 mile(s)
Comments:     Brookline Bird Club walk led by Eddie Giles.
49 species (+1 other taxa)

Wood Duck  2     (G9.  Pair of males first seen as flyovers, later seen flushing from waterway/wetland that flows alongside G9.)
Ruffed Grouse  1     (G9.  Heard only.)
Double-crested Cormorant  4     (Flyovers)
Great Blue Heron  2     (Holly Pond.)
Turkey Vulture  4
Osprey  1     (Flyover.)
Broad-winged Hawk  1     (Observed soaring around the visitors center.  Third weekend in a row noted at this location.)
Buteo sp.  8     (Kettle of eight birds observed high over the park.  Presumed to be Broad-winged Hawks.)
Ring-billed Gull  2     (Flyovers)
Mourning Dove  2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  3
Northern Flicker  1
Eastern Phoebe  2
Great Crested Flycatcher  3     (Heard only.)
Blue-headed Vireo  1     (Singing male between N4 and N5.)
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Blue Jay  3
American Crow  2
Barn Swallow  2
Black-capped Chickadee  8
Tufted Titmouse  3
Red-breasted Nuthatch  2
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
Brown Creeper  1     (G16)
Winter Wren  1     (G16)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  10
Veery  2
American Robin  4
Gray Catbird  6
Ovenbird  20     (Easily more, conservative count.)
Worm-eating Warbler  3     (One bird observed singing along trail at G9.  Later while standing on road between G8 and G9, we observed two males singing/giving chase, who were then joined/chased by a third bir flying across the road from G9.  We could not be sure if that third bird was the same bird we had observed earlier or a different, fourth bird.)
Louisiana Waterthrush  1     (Singing across from G16.)
Blue-winged Warbler  2     (Along G9 and along road between G8 and G9.)
Black-and-white Warbler  10
Common Yellowthroat  2     (G9)
Northern Parula  1     (Seen and heard along the trail to Picture Pond.)
Yellow Warbler  4
Pine Warbler  6
Yellow-rumped Warbler  3
Black-throated Green Warbler  1
Chipping Sparrow  6
Song Sparrow  2
Swamp Sparrow  1
Eastern Towhee  8
Northern Cardinal  6
Red-winged Blackbird  1     (Holly Pond.)
Brown-headed Cowbird  4
Baltimore Oriole  3
American Goldfinch  6

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S36667395

2024 Annual Report

The Brookline Bird Club (BBC) recorded 283 species for 2024, with 274 species in Massachusetts (four more than 2023), and nine additional species reported from New Hampshire and Maine.  This total was based upon 262

2024 Annual Report

The Brookline Bird Club (BBC) recorded 283 species for 2024, with 274 species in Massachusetts (four more than 2023), and nine additional species reported from New Hampshire and Maine.  This total was based upon 262

2024 Annual Report

The Brookline Bird Club (BBC) recorded 283 species for 2024, with 274 species in Massachusetts (four more than 2023), and nine additional species reported from New Hampshire and Maine.  This total was based upon 262

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