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Marblehead Neck Wildlife Sanctuary, Essex, Massachusetts, US
May 9, 2017 6:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
Comments:     BBC walk started sunny and 39 degrees, 49 when we ended.  Very quiet to start, but song picked up when it started to warm up.
33 species (+1 other taxa)

Mallard  3
Common Loon  1
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1
gull sp.  5
Mourning Dove  2
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Downy Woodpecker  2
Northern Flicker  2
Merlin  1     Perched, seen well by the group and Jan Smith
Blue-headed Vireo  1
Blue Jay  3
American Crow  2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  2
Black-capped Chickadee  5
Tufted Titmouse  4
White-breasted Nuthatch  2
House Wren  4
Carolina Wren  1     Heard by Jan Smith
Wood Thrush  1
Gray Catbird  8
Ovenbird  1
Northern Waterthrush  1
Black-and-white Warbler  3
Common Yellowthroat  1
American Redstart  1
Northern Parula  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  8
Black-throated Green Warbler  2
Song Sparrow  1
Eastern Towhee  2
Northern Cardinal  2
Red-winged Blackbird  2
Common Grackle  5
American Goldfinch  6

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S36775064

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