Date: 10/8/25 8:58 am From: Lynn Pelland <lpelland...> Subject: Re: [MASSBIRD] Just Roots Community Farm, Greenfield (Hampshire Bird Club trip report)
thanks Sam!
On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM Sam McGullam <sam.mcgullam...> wrote:
> 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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>> Lynn Pelland
>> Administrative Assistant, Facilities Operations
>> Facilities Management
>> Smith College
>> 126 West St
>> Northampton, MA 01063
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> *Sam McGullam*
> Turners Falls, MA
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Lynn Pelland
Administrative Assistant, Facilities Operations
Facilities Management
Smith College
126 West St
Northampton, MA 01063
p 413.585.2391
f 413.585.2398
<lpelland...>
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