Breeding Bird Atlas trip

Moose, feeding along edge of pond

Olive sided Flycatcher, one of two seen


Common Yellowthroat

I made a couple trips into my atlas block in New Salem to check on the ongoing status of breeding birds and general migration. The vast majority of birds seen and heard appeared to be on territory with some building nests or already feeding young. The numbers of warblers and vireos are reaching their peak at this point and flycatchers are building in numbers too. I'll include the list from the trip to give a glimpse of the activity in this wild part of Massachusetts.

Canada Goose 4 adults
Ruffed Grouse 6 drumming
Wild Turkey 7
Double-crested Cormorant 4 high flyby
Broad-winged Hawk 1
Solitary Sandpiper 3 together
Mourning Dove 12
Black-billed Cuckoo 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 17 carrying food
Downy Woodpecker 1
Hairy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 3
Olive-sided Flycatcher 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Least Flycatcher 31
Eastern Phoebe 5 carrying food
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Eastern Kingbird 4
Blue-headed Vireo 7
Red-eyed Vireo 72
Blue Jay 17
American Crow 3
Tree Swallow 10
Barn Swallow 1
Black-capped Chickadee 30
Tufted Titmouse 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch 9
White-breasted Nuthatch 2 carrying food
Brown Creeper 3
House Wren 2
Winter Wren 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2
Veery 26
Swainson's Thrush 2
Hermit Thrush 2
Wood Thrush 22
American Robin 32
Gray Catbird 34
Blue-winged Warbler 1
Nashville Warbler 1
Northern Parula 2
Yellow Warbler 27
Chestnut-sided Warbler 69 building nests
Magnolia Warbler 21
Black-throated Blue Warbler 37 carrying nest material
Yellow-rumped Warbler 5
Black-throated Green Warbler 23
Blackburnian Warbler 8
Pine Warbler 15
Prairie Warbler 2
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 20
American Redstart 59 building nests
Ovenbird 76
Northern Waterthrush 1
Common Yellowthroat 99 carrying nest material
Canada Warbler 3
Scarlet Tanager 14
Eastern Towhee 82
Chipping Sparrow 34
Song Sparrow 8
Swamp Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 15
Indigo Bunting 2
Red-winged Blackbird 11
Common Grackle 7
Brown-headed Cowbird 11
Baltimore Oriole 22 building nests
Red Crossbill 2 pair
American Goldfinch 4
Evening Grosbeak 4 two pairs