Allen’s Pond WS, Bristol, Massachusetts, US

May 19, 2024 8:00 AM – 10:26 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.5 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club walk: Leader nick Paulson, no participants. Cool, overcast and windy, occasional sprinkles.

83 species

Canada Goose  20

Mute Swan  2

Gadwall  4

Mallard  5

Common Eider (Dresser’s)  5

Red-breasted Merganser  1

Mourning Dove  4

Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1

Clapper Rail (Atlantic Coast)  1

Killdeer  2

Willet (Eastern)  14

Greater Yellowlegs  1

Ruddy Turnstone  6

Dunlin  30

Purple Sandpiper  1

Least Sandpiper  13

Semipalmated Sandpiper  2

Laughing Gull  2

Ring-billed Gull  10

Herring Gull (American)  75

Great Black-backed Gull  15

Common Tern (hirundo/tibetana)  80

Common Loon  5

Double-crested Cormorant  30

Snowy Egret  1

Great Egret  7

Turkey Vulture  3

Osprey (carolinensis)  10

Broad-winged Hawk  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  1

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  3

Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2

Eastern Wood-Pewee  1

Willow Flycatcher  4

Great Crested Flycatcher  4

Eastern Kingbird  1

White-eyed Vireo  7

Warbling Vireo (Eastern)  1

Blue Jay  3

American Crow  2

Common Raven  1

Black-capped Chickadee  7

Tufted Titmouse  6

Bank Swallow  6

Tree Swallow  9

Purple Martin  3

Barn Swallow (American)  22

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  3

Marsh Wren (palustris Group)  1

Carolina Wren  8

European Starling  5

Gray Catbird  14

American Robin  18

House Sparrow  3

House Finch  4

American Goldfinch  8

Chipping Sparrow  3

White-throated Sparrow  1

Seaside Sparrow (Atlantic)  6    Several singing, beach loop, 2 seen.

Saltmarsh Sparrow  8

Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  3

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  12

Eastern Towhee  5

Bobolink  10

Orchard Oriole  3

Baltimore Oriole  7

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  40

Brown-headed Cowbird  7

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  14

Ovenbird  9

Blue-winged Warbler  2

Black-and-white Warbler  1

Common Yellowthroat  12

Hooded Warbler  1

American Redstart  3

Yellow Warbler (Northern)  24

Blackpoll Warbler  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  2

Summer Tanager  1    75 feet south of where treetop meets fresh pond loop, along fresh pond loop in a large oak. Mostly all yellow bird with a little bit of red-orange to undertail coverts, tail, and wings. Large bill. No contrast wings vs back.

Northern Cardinal  4

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1

Indigo Bunting  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S175630042

Nuttall Club special event with Peter Kaestner

Peter Kaestner in his Search for 10,000 Species of Birds in the World - A Special Event Sponsored by the Nuttall Ornithological Club Peter Kaestner after seeing his 10,000th world bird species in the Philippines. [...]

Nuttall Club special event with Peter Kaestner

Peter Kaestner in his Search for 10,000 Species of Birds in the World - A Special Event Sponsored by the Nuttall Ornithological Club Peter Kaestner after seeing his 10,000th world bird species in the Philippines. [...]

Nuttall Club special event with Peter Kaestner

Peter Kaestner in his Search for 10,000 Species of Birds in the World - A Special Event Sponsored by the Nuttall Ornithological Club Peter Kaestner after seeing his 10,000th world bird species in the Philippines. [...]

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