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

Chestnut St. Fields, Bristol, Massachusetts, US

Mar 27, 2026 5:46 PM – 7:28 PM

Protocol: Stationary

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club woodcock walk. 

Leader Ray Bedard and three participants. 

The woodcocks waited a while before getting vocal. They did eventually get into their display flight with enough light to see them. All were very close tonight

17 species

Canada Goose  25

Wild Turkey  1

Mourning Dove  1

American Woodcock  5

Ring-billed Gull  3

American Herring Gull  4

Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  1

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1

European Starling  13

Northern Mockingbird  1

Eastern Bluebird  2

American Robin  60

Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  3

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  1

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  15

Northern Cardinal  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S314245426

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th

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