Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:11:33 -0400 Subject: Fwd: eBird Report - Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, 100-132 Prospect Hill Road, Oct 17, 2026
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Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, 100-132 Prospect Hill Road, Worcester, Massachusetts, US Oct 17, 2026 7:30=E2=80=AFAM - 10:00=E2=80=AFAM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) Checklist Comments: Sandy and Rita led this walk for the Brookline Bird Club and Boxborough Birders. Cloudy, windy on main campus at elevation. 46F (windchill ~38F). Most activity in the woods and existing woods at lower campus. 22 species (+1 other taxa)
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 1 Turkey Vulture 1 F-O @ New Meadow Red-bellied Woodpecker 8 Downy Woodpecker 9 Blue Jay 8 American Crow 4 Common Raven 6 Beautiful "performance" of all six, perhaps a family, over Old Meadow. CLEARLY seen by all of us. Black-capped Chickadee 16 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet 3 White-breasted Nuthatch 3 Red-breasted Nuthatch 10 A noisy burst of 5 in the woods. Others near New Meadow and near the woods exit on lower campus. Brown Creeper 2 Eastern Bluebird 2 American Robin 18 Dark-eyed Junco 2 White-throated Sparrow 15 About 8 in a cluster near woods exit on lower campus. Mature and immature. Savannah Sparrow 1 New Meadow Song Sparrow 2 Probably more at New Meadow. Eastern Towhee 1 Heard VERY clearly on lower campus as we were exiting the woods. American Redstart 1 A female seen at close proximity on exiting the woods at lower campus by 3 of us. Pair seen earlier in the season at this location/lower campus. Northern Cardinal 1 passerine sp. 13 - At least 5 of what may have been Chipping Sparrows on main campus in upper canopy at start of walk. Could not see well due to lighting and distance. (All departed the moment the scope was set up.) - Probably the mockingbird seen on lower campus by just Rita. Flying away and could identify with certainty due to lighting and distance.
