Cumberland Farms–River St. Entrance, Plymouth, Massachusetts, US
Oct 27, 2024 7:34 AM – 11:34 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.5 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: BBC Cumberland Farms Fields walk. A chilly 33 to start but ending the walk at 53. 3 participants, Carol and Moe Molander and Nick Paulson. I accidentally stopped the track shortly into the walk. Walked in past the old manure pit to the south trail and back down the west side of the fields.
43 species (+2 other taxa)
Canada Goose 5
Mallard 1
Green-winged Teal (American) 12
duck sp. 10 Distant large ducks.
Ring-necked Pheasant 1 Stocked. Flushed near the gate on the way out
Mourning Dove 12
Double-crested Cormorant 700
Sharp-shinned Hawk (Northern) 1
Cooper’s Hawk 2
Northern Harrier 6
Red-tailed Hawk (borealis) 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 3
Peregrine Falcon 1 A real dark individual most likely of the tundra subspecies
Blue Jay 10
American Crow 6
Common Raven 3
Black-capped Chickadee 10
Horned Lark 15
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
Golden-crowned Kinglet 4
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) 1
Carolina Wren 5
European Starling 30
Northern Mockingbird 4
Eastern Bluebird 2
American Robin 50
American Pipit 1
House Finch 1
American Goldfinch 25
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 3
White-crowned Sparrow 5
White-throated Sparrow 20
Savannah Sparrow (Savannah) 5
Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica) 25
Swamp Sparrow 60
Eastern Meadowlark (Eastern) 1
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) 1
Rusty Blackbird 2
Nashville Warbler 2 One with bright yellow belly and UTC, white vent. Quick view flitting through thick shrubbery. GISS was immediately Nashville. Second bird was more drab but much better views. Drab yellow on chest and throat. Yellow UTC. Complete white eye ring ruling out OCWA which has a broken eye ring and no eye line ruling out Tennessee
Palm Warbler (Western) 1
Palm Warbler (Yellow) 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 7
Northern Cardinal 8
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S201144950
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