Parker River NWR–Hellcat Dike, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Oct 19, 2024 7:45 AM – 11:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.966 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Brookline Bird Club Walk- Hellcat at Parker River NWR- Leader Nickilas Paulson- 1 participant. Cold to start but warmed up quick. Clear skies, low wind. Kinglets were heard throughout. Many Cormorants migrating past. Lots of hunters, so less ducks than expected. Walked a loop down the dike (opened for NWR week) to the Wardens, and back the road to the boardwalk then along the boardwalk.
53 species (+3 other taxa)
Canada Goose 80
Blue-winged Teal 1
Gadwall 8
American Black Duck 60
Green-winged Teal (American) 25
Mourning Dove 1
Black-bellied Plover 6
Semipalmated Plover 1
Greater Yellowlegs 6
White-rumped Sandpiper 2
shorebird sp. 20
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull (American) 15
gull sp. 30
Common Loon 10
Double-crested Cormorant 400
Black-crowned Night Heron 1 Likely same bird circled back, but possibly two.
Great Egret 6
Great Blue Heron (Great Blue) 3
Northern Harrier 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) 4
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 1
Eastern Phoebe 2
Blue Jay 20
American Crow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 15
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3
Golden-crowned Kinglet 16
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2
Brown Creeper 1
Carolina Wren 1
European Starling 2
Northern Mockingbird 1
Eastern Bluebird 1
American Robin 6
American Pipit 2
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 9
Chipping Sparrow 24
Field Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 9
White-throated Sparrow 11
Saltmarsh Sparrow 2
Savannah Sparrow (Savannah) 6
Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica) 25
Eastern Towhee 2
Eastern Meadowlark (Eastern) 3
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) 50
Orange-crowned Warbler (Gray-headed) 2
Common Yellowthroat 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 30
new world warbler sp. 1 Sounded like Palm.
Northern Cardinal 5
Indigo Bunting 1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S199694986
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