Allen’s Pond WS, Bristol, Massachusetts, US
Oct 4, 2020 8:30 AM – 12:14 PM
Protocol: Traveling
3.705 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club walk – Allen’s Pond WS – Leader Nick Paulson. Beach loop, Quansett/Pond Loop. Mild temps, low wind.
44 species (+2 other taxa)
Canada Goose  3
American Black Duck  7
Mallard x American Black Duck (hybrid)  1
Green-winged Teal  14
Common Eider (Dresser’s)  3
Black-billed Cuckoo  1    Flew down the path in front of us. Fully brown wings, only small white spots at the end of the tail feathers.
Semipalmated Plover  1
Sanderling  100
Least Sandpiper  1
Greater Yellowlegs  2
Lesser Yellowlegs  1
Herring Gull  30
Double-crested Cormorant  24
Great Blue Heron  6
Great Egret  10
Turkey Vulture  15
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Cooper’s Hawk  2
Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  11
Eastern Phoebe  3
Blue Jay  22
American Crow  7
Black-capped Chickadee  10
Tree Swallow  65
Red-breasted Nuthatch  3
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
House Wren  1
Carolina Wren  5
European Starling  40
Gray Catbird  15
Northern Mockingbird  2
American Robin  6
House Sparrow  1
Pine Siskin  1
Vesper Sparrow  1    Quick view as it flushed, white edge to tail. And only a quick view of the face when it perched.
Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  2
Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  8
Eastern Towhee  5
Eastern Meadowlark (Eastern)  1
Common Grackle  1
Common Yellowthroat  2
Palm Warbler (Western)  4
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  50
warbler sp. (Parulidae sp.)  2
Northern Cardinal  2
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S74444895

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