Date: 5/18/25 8:01 am From: Barbara M Volkle <barb620...> Subject: [MASSBIRD] eBird Report - Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, 100-132 Prospect Hill, Road, May 17, 2025
Thanks to Rita Grossman for this report.
Barbara Volkle Northborough, MA <barb620...>
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From: Rita Grossman <rgibesgrossman...> Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 09:21:02 -0400 Subject: eBird Report - Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, 100-132 Prospect Hill Road, May 17, 2025
Walk co-led by Sandy Oxley and Rita Grossman for the Boxborough Birders and the Brookline Bird Club.
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Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, 100-132 Prospect Hill Road, Worcester, Massachusetts, US May 17, 2025 6:55 AM - 9:35 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) Checklist Comments: Cloudy, foggy, misty at start to cloudy by 8A. 64F. Scott noted an ermine skirting about the stonewall at the entrance. Large porcupine seen on woodland trail near lower campus in a tree. Most noticeable: did not see or hear a titmouse; bluebirds nor hawks/accipiter. 46 species
Canada Goose 2 Heard. Could have been more. Wild Turkey 8 Mourning Dove 1 Chimney Swift 5 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Eastern Phoebe 3 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Red-eyed Vireo 7 Blue Jay 6 Common Raven 2 Black-capped Chickadee 5 Tree Swallow 3 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Brown Creeper 1 European Starling 15 Gray Catbird 9 Veery 2 Swainson's Thrush 1 Wood Thrush 5 American Robin 15 House Sparrow 6 Seen on main campus. House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 7 Chipping Sparrow 6 Song Sparrow 2 Bobolink 3 Heard clearly near entrance. Baltimore Oriole 4 Red-winged Blackbird 26 Brown-headed Cowbird 5 Common Grackle 1 Ovenbird 5 Blue-winged Warbler 2 Black-and-white Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 12 American Redstart 5 Northern Parula 2 Yellow Warbler 6 Heard and seen...a few sightings were excellent. Chestnut-sided Warbler 7 Heard and seen. A few excellent sightings. Pine Warbler 2 Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Scarlet Tanager 3 Northern Cardinal 3 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 5 Indigo Bunting 3
