Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US
11-Oct-2022 07:25 – 11:10
Protocol: Traveling
3.5 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:    Beautiful Fall day.  Sunny, 38 degrees to start, 59 degrees to end.  Led BBC walk.  Stops at parking lt 1 beach Boardwalk, the main salt Pannes, roadside, the Wardens where we walked the dike for a bit, and Hellcat.
52 species (+2 other taxa)
Canada Goose  14
Mute Swan  1
Gadwall  4
Mallard  7
American Black Duck  12
Northern Pintail  1
Green-winged Teal  26
Common Eider  6
White-winged Scoter  9
Wild Turkey  2
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  26
Mourning Dove  2
Black-bellied Plover  2    Both heard in flight.
Killdeer  2
Hudsonian Godwit  1    In North Pool as seen from the Hellcat Dike.
White-rumped Sandpiper  4
Pectoral Sandpiper  1
Greater Yellowlegs  34
shorebird sp.  60    A couple of distant flocks out over the Sound.
Herring Gull  6
Northern Gannet  12
Double-crested Cormorant  200    Three large migrating skiens.
Great Blue Heron  4
Great Egret  37
Osprey  1
Cooper’s Hawk  2
Bald Eagle  2
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Downy Woodpecker  2
Peregrine Falcon  2
Eastern Phoebe  1
Blue Jay  9
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  2
Red-breasted Nuthatch  1
White-breasted Nuthatch  2
Brown Creeper  1
European Starling  20
Gray Catbird  2
Northern Mockingbird  2
American Robin  3
Cedar Waxwing  1
House Finch  2
American Goldfinch  1
Dark-eyed Junco  3
White-crowned Sparrow  1    Imm.
White-throated Sparrow  6
Song Sparrow  12
Swamp Sparrow  1
Eastern Towhee  2
sparrow sp.  2
Red-winged Blackbird  3
Common Yellowthroat  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  22
Northern Cardinal  1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S120563500

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