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Yapp Farm Trail, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 4, 2025 6:59 AM – 9:39 AM

Protocol: Traveling

0.398 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Spring migration walk for Dracut Open Space Committee. Overcast, mild and a bit muggy, lots of birds around, not the best looks at most of the warblers but lots of song to focus on

45 species

Mallard  1

Wild Turkey  1

Mourning Dove  3

Chimney Swift  1

Common Loon  3    Flyover

Great Blue Heron  1    Flyover

Red-bellied Woodpecker  1

Downy Woodpecker  1

Pileated Woodpecker  1

Eastern Phoebe  1

Great Crested Flycatcher  2

Blue Jay  3

American Crow  3

Black-capped Chickadee  1

Tufted Titmouse  3

Tree Swallow  1

White-breasted Nuthatch  1

Northern House Wren  1

Gray Catbird  6

Wood Thrush  1

American Robin  1

House Finch  1

American Goldfinch  1

Chipping Sparrow  3

Field Sparrow  1

Song Sparrow  2

Swamp Sparrow  1

Eastern Towhee  2

Baltimore Oriole  1

Red-winged Blackbird  15

Common Grackle  10

Ovenbird  2

Black-and-white Warbler  2

Common Yellowthroat  2

American Redstart  1

Cape May Warbler  1

Northern Parula  4

Blackburnian Warbler  1

Northern Yellow Warbler  1

Chestnut-sided Warbler  1

Pine Warbler  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler  2

Black-throated Green Warbler  3

Northern Cardinal  4

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S286785228

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