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Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary (Mass Audubon), Bristol, Massachusetts, US
01-Oct-2023 08:30 – 13:30
Protocol: Traveling
2.5 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk- Allen’s Pond WS- Leader Nick Paulson: 3 participants. Beach loop quansett trail, stone barn area. Cool to start but warming, windy. Exceptionally high tide. Most of the marsh grass was flooded.
48 species (+3 other taxa)
American Black Duck  14
Mourning Dove  1
peep sp.  1
Greater Yellowlegs  2
Lesser Yellowlegs  2
Laughing Gull  2
Ring-billed Gull  10
Herring Gull (American)  40
Great Black-backed Gull  4
Double-crested Cormorant  50
Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  11
Great Egret  115    Still staging here in high numbers. Counted by ones in a sweep, but more kept flying in.
Snowy Egret  12    Still staging here in smaller numbers. Most sitting on far rock.
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron  1    Continuing juvenile, photos.
Turkey Vulture  32
Osprey (carolinensis)  8
Northern Harrier  2
Sharp-shinned Hawk (Northern)  3
Cooper’s Hawk  1
Red-shouldered Hawk (lineatus Group)  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  3
Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  3
Eastern Phoebe  1
Blue Jay  20
American Crow  3
Black-capped Chickadee  6
Horned Lark  1
Tree Swallow  2200
Barn Swallow (American)  1
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  2
House Wren (Northern)  1
Carolina Wren  4
European Starling  70
Gray Catbird  19
Northern Mockingbird  1
American Robin  1
Cedar Waxwing  6
House Sparrow  3
House Finch  9
American Goldfinch  6
Chipping Sparrow  4
Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  12
Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  8
Swamp Sparrow  1
Eastern Towhee  1
new world sparrow sp.  2
Common Grackle (Bronzed)  1
Orange-crowned Warbler  1
Bay-breasted/Blackpoll Warbler  2
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S151613436

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