Halibut Point SP – 10/15/2023

Halibut Point SP, Essex, Massachusetts, US 15-Oct-2023 07:56 - 10:29 Protocol: Traveling 1.529 mile(s) Checklist Comments:    BBC - Halibut Point State Park, Rockport, Morning - Leader: Peter Van Demark - light overcast, brisk northern wind, mid 50s 20 species Canada Goose  35    Two loose flocks high over parking lot, heading west Common Eider 

Fresh Pond, Cambridge – 10/14/2023

Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US 14-Oct-2023 07:00 - 08:30 Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) Checklist Comments:    BBC bird walk at Fresh Pond 30 species Canada Goose  7 Ring-necked Duck  11 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  5 Mourning Dove  3 Herring Gull  4 Red-tailed Hawk  1 Barred Owl  1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1 Red-bellied Woodpecker  2 Downy

Nahanton Park, Newton – 10/14/2023

Nahanton Park, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US 14-Oct-2023 08:00 - 12:00 Protocol: Traveling 1.5 mile(s) Checklist Comments:    BBC Walk, 47-60 degrees, light breeze, partly cloudy.  Quiet to start but activity picked up once sun came out and it warmed up. 33 species Canada Goose  31 Mallard  3 Mourning Dove  2 Red-bellied Woodpecker  5 Downy Woodpecker  4

Parker River NWR – 10/10/2023

Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US 10-Oct-2023 07:30 - 11:00 Protocol: Traveling 3.65 mile(s) Checklist Comments:    45 degrees to start, partly sunny to mostly cloudy, high tide around 9:00am.  Stops at the boat ramp, the middens, the Wardens where we walked the dike to North Pool, and the Hellcat Boardwalk.  Led BBC walk. 51

King’s Beach, Lynn/Swampscott – 10/8/2023

King's Beach, Lynn/Swampscott, Essex, Massachusetts, US 08-Oct-2023 11:00 - 13:15 Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) Checklist Comments:    A Brookline Bird Club walk led by Shilo McDonald. Blue skies. Windy. 66 ºF. 13 species (+3 other taxa) White-winged Scoter  5 Black Scoter  5 Surf/Black Scoter  12 scoter sp.  12 duck sp.  3    There were some

Gooseberry Neck – 10/8/2023

Gooseberry Neck, Bristol, Massachusetts, US 08-Oct-2023 06:30 - 14:00 Protocol: Stationary Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club- Big Sit Gooseberry Neck- Leader Nick Paulson. Most of the warblers were before 10am, after that sparrow activity picked up in the parking lot as winds shifted to the SW and parking lot became less directly windy. A

Parker River NWR, Hellcat – 10/7/2023

Parker River NWR--Hellcat Dike, Essex, Massachusetts, US 07-Oct-2023 06:57 - 16:57 Protocol: Stationary Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club- Big Sit Hellcat Tower, Plum Island. Leader Nick Paulson. Windy and overcast with occasional showers. Generally dryer than forecast as the post tropical storm and the front to the west kept each other away from this

Great Meadows NWR – 10/5/2023

Great Meadows NWR--Concord Unit, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US 05-Oct-2023 08:00 - 10:00 Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) 21 species (+1 other taxa) Canada Goose  20 Wood Duck  7 Mallard (Domestic type)  4 Mourning Dove  1 Cooper's Hawk  1 Red-bellied Woodpecker  1 Hairy Woodpecker  2 Downy/Hairy Woodpecker  3 Northern Flicker  1 Blue Jay  4 Black-capped Chickadee  4 Tufted

Allens Pond, Dartmouth – 10/1/2023

Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary (Mass Audubon), Bristol, Massachusetts, US 01-Oct-2023 08:30 - 13:30 Protocol: Traveling 2.5 mile(s) Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk- Allen’s Pond WS- Leader Nick Paulson: 3 participants. Beach loop quansett trail, stone barn area. Cool to start but warming, windy. Exceptionally high tide. Most of the marsh grass was flooded.

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