Allen’s Pond WS, Bristol, Massachusetts, US

Nov 10, 2024 8:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Protocol: Traveling

3.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk-Allens Pond WS-Leader Nick Paulson

56 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  14

Mute Swan  2

Gadwall  2

Mallard  12

American Black Duck  40

Common Eider (Dresser’s)  2

Surf Scoter  4

White-winged Scoter  10

Black Scoter  8

scoter sp.  100

Bufflehead  20

Common Goldeneye  2

Hooded Merganser  28

Red-breasted Merganser  60

Mourning Dove  1

Virginia Rail  1

Black-bellied Plover  1

Killdeer  1

Laughing Gull  1

Ring-billed Gull  60

American Herring Gull  30

Great Black-backed Gull  10

Horned Grebe  35

Red-necked Grebe  1

Red-throated Loon  20

Common Loon  12

Double-crested Cormorant  180

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  2

Cooper’s Hawk  2

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  4

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  8

Blue Jay  4

American Crow  8

Black-capped Chickadee  12

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1

Golden-crowned Kinglet  5

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  2

Winter Wren  1

Carolina Wren  14

European Starling  25

Gray Catbird  6

Northern Mockingbird  2

Hermit Thrush (faxoni/crymophilus)  8

American Robin  30

House Sparrow  6

American Pipit  1

House Finch  9

American Goldfinch  10

Snow Bunting  11

Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  3

White-throated Sparrow  14

Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  1

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  10

Swamp Sparrow  3

Orange-crowned Warbler (Gray-headed)  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  23

Northern Cardinal  4

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S204121897

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