Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US
18-Sep-2022 08:05 – 11:56
Protocol: Traveling
7.133 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Trip Field Trip led by Neil Hayward.
46 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose  5
Mute Swan  3
Gadwall  12
Mallard  9
American Black Duck  12
Green-winged Teal  25
Black-bellied Plover  5
American Golden-Plover  1
Semipalmated Plover  5
Stilt Sandpiper  2    Bill Forward pool from blind. Flushed by Peregrine. Came back on my own and refound in the same spot. Long, decurved bill with dowitcher feeding motion.
Dunlin  7
Least Sandpiper  2
White-rumped Sandpiper  12
Semipalmated Sandpiper  20
Short-billed Dowitcher  2    Juveniles
Long-billed Dowitcher  4    From dike.
Greater Yellowlegs  56
Lesser Yellowlegs  1
Herring Gull  2
Double-crested Cormorant  30
Great Blue Heron  4
Great Egret  33
Snowy Egret  28
Osprey  1
Northern Harrier  1
Accipiter sp.  1
Northern Flicker  4
Merlin  1    Very dark.
Peregrine Falcon  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
Blue Jay  3
Black-capped Chickadee  3
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  1
Tree Swallow  20
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1
Gray Catbird  11
Brown Thrasher  2
American Robin  22
Cedar Waxwing  12
American Goldfinch  1
Song Sparrow  3
Eastern Towhee  1
Baltimore Oriole  1
Tennessee Warbler  1    Yellowish wash over head and green olive back. Strongish supercilium. Noticeable bright white underparks (although some yellow on breast and flanks) and white undertail coverts. Silent. On road south of Goodno Crossing.
Northern Parula  1
Blackpoll Warbler  2
Northern Cardinal  3
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S119077397

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