Newburyport & vicinity, Essex, Massachusetts, US

Jan 1, 2024 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Protocol: Traveling

7.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    My Brookline Bird Club 27th Annual New Year’s Day List. Trip Leaders: Mark Burns and me.

Started the trip at 9AM at Cashman Park and traveled to Salisbury Beach State Park, Plum Island, Stackyard Road, and Scotland Road, where we ended the trip at 4PM.

Weather: Partly sunny sky, temps hovered around 32°F, little to no wind.

51 species

Snow Goose  1

Gadwall  8

Mallard  24

American Black Duck  60

Northern Pintail  18

Green-winged Teal  15

Common Eider  24

Surf Scoter  35

White-winged Scoter  60

Black Scoter  9

Long-tailed Duck  16

Bufflehead  3

Common Goldeneye  4

Red-breasted Merganser  3

Horned Grebe  7

Red-necked Grebe  5

Mourning Dove  19

Sanderling  28

Dunlin  1

Purple Sandpiper  1

Pomarine Jaeger  2    Seen from Parking Lot 1 at PRNWR by many.

Ring-billed Gull  16

Herring Gull  85

Great Black-backed Gull  22

Red-throated Loon  4

Common Loon  12

Northern Gannet  33

Great Cormorant  1

Great Blue Heron  1

Northern Harrier  7

Cooper’s Hawk  2

Red-tailed Hawk  1

Eastern Screech-Owl  1

Long-eared Owl  1    Seen by many.

Short-eared Owl  4

Downy Woodpecker  1

Blue Jay  13

American Crow  27

Tufted Titmouse  3

European Starling  27

Northern Mockingbird  6

American Robin  40

House Sparrow  12

American Goldfinch  13

Lark Sparrow  1    Seen at Salisbury Beach State Park by many.

American Tree Sparrow  16

Dark-eyed Junco  18

White-throated Sparrow  1

Song Sparrow  34

Swamp Sparrow  1

Northern Cardinal  5

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S165490664