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Allen’s Pond WS, Bristol, Massachusetts, US

Nov 9, 2025 8:22 AM – 10:22 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.5 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk – Allens Pond WS – Leaders Nick Paulson. Quiet for land birds, lots of ducks on the pond.

30 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  40

Northern Shoveler  1

Mallard  4

American Black Duck  80

Bufflehead  50

Common Goldeneye  4

Hooded Merganser  15

Red-breasted Merganser  75

Ring-billed Gull  2

American Herring Gull  50

Great Black-backed Gull  5

gull sp.  500

Double-crested Cormorant  25

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  6

Blue Jay  4

Black-capped Chickadee  1

Carolina Wren  3

European Starling  12

Gray Catbird  2

Northern Mockingbird  3

Eastern Bluebird  2

American Robin  10

House Sparrow  5

American Pipit  2

House Finch  8

Purple Finch  2

American Goldfinch  3

Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  3

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  2

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  4

Northern Cardinal  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S283790578

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