Date: 10/8/25 8:40 am From: Sam McGullam <sam.mcgullam...> Subject: Re: [MASSBIRD] Just Roots Community Farm, Greenfield (Hampshire Bird Club trip report)
Hi Lynn,
Just Roots is at 34 Glenbrook Dr in Greenfield. Follow the signs for CSA
parking, keep driving past the large red building and barn on your right,
and then park in the large dirt lot by the greenhouse down the hill (taking
care not to block tractor access). You can enter by the community gardens
and walk the paths along the fields and hedgerows. Note that the farmland
south of Deforest Rd is private and Camp Keewanee at the end of Health Camp
Rd is posted. It's a really nice spot, definitely worth exploring!
Best,
Sam
On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM Lynn Pelland <lpelland...> wrote:
> Thanks Josh. I wish I was able to attend this outing. Do you have any
> details on the best place to enter, park? I may explore soon...
>
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM Josh <opihi...> wrote:
>
>> Hi MassBirders,
>>
>> On Sunday 10-5, Sam McGullam and I co-led a Hampshire Bird Club trip to
>> Just Roots Community Farm near Greenfield. Sam and I had birded this spot
>> individually before, but this was the club’s first trip there. A dozen
>> participants gathered from as far away as Worcester and Chicopee.
>>
>> The day was warm and sunny, and we tallied 15 bird species before we even
>> left the parking lot! As we walked around, the sheer numbers of birds was
>> almost overwhelming, especially various species of sparrows, and it was
>> often hard to know which direction to look. Song, Savannah, and
>> White-throated Sparrows made up the vast majority of the numbers around us,
>> with a few Swamp, Lincoln’s, and White-crowned Sparrows present.
>> Non-sparrows in the mix included one or two late Bobolinks, several Palm
>> Warblers, and one stealthy Pine Siskin that was briefly heard but went
>> unseen. Common Ravens were croaking in the distance for just about the
>> entire morning, a few appeared in flight, and we also spied several raptor
>> species including Osprey, Northern Harrier, and a few American Kestrel.
>> Non-avian observations included a Shadow Darner dragonfly patrolling over
>> the brook, and the dismembered remains of a skunk that some predator had
>> left in the path. We finished the morning after obser!
>> ving 42 bird species.
>>
>> Birders are welcome to return and explore this location on their own,
>> although the farm requests that visitors stay on roads and grassy paths and
>> not enter the fields, production areas, or garden plots.
>>
>> https://ebird.org/hotspot/L4690669 >>
>> Good birding,
>>
>> Josh
>>
>>
>>
>> Joshua S. Rose, Ph.D.
>> Amherst, MA
>> https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/opihiman >> https://www.facebook.com/opihi >>
>> Writer/compiler, Bird Observer
>> https://www.birdobserver.org/ >>
>> Columnist, “Earth Matters”
>> https://www.gazettenet.com/search?bodysearch=earth+matters >> https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/category/earth-matters/ >>
>> Vice-president, Hampshire Bird Club
>> https://hampshirebirdclub.org/ >>
>> Northeast Chapter head, Dragonfly Society of the Americas
>> https://www.dragonflysocietyamericas.org/northeastdsa >>
>>
>>
>>
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