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.

48 species (+3 other taxa)

American Black Duck  14

Mourning Dove  1

peep sp.  1

Greater Yellowlegs  2

Lesser Yellowlegs  2

Laughing Gull  2

Ring-billed Gull  10

Herring Gull (American)  40

Great Black-backed Gull  4

Double-crested Cormorant  50

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  11

Great Egret  115    Still staging here in high numbers. Counted by ones in a sweep, but more kept flying in.

Snowy Egret  12    Still staging here in smaller numbers. Most sitting on far rock.

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron  1    Continuing juvenile, photos.

Turkey Vulture  32

Osprey (carolinensis)  8

Northern Harrier  2

Sharp-shinned Hawk (Northern)  3

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Red-shouldered Hawk (lineatus Group)  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  3

Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  3

Eastern Phoebe  1

Blue Jay  20

American Crow  3

Black-capped Chickadee  6

Horned Lark  1

Tree Swallow  2200

Barn Swallow (American)  1

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  2

House Wren (Northern)  1

Carolina Wren  4

European Starling  70

Gray Catbird  19

Northern Mockingbird  1

American Robin  1

Cedar Waxwing  6

House Sparrow  3

House Finch  9

American Goldfinch  6

Chipping Sparrow  4

Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  12

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  8

Swamp Sparrow  1

Eastern Towhee  1

new world sparrow sp.  2

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  1

Orange-crowned Warbler  1

Bay-breasted/Blackpoll Warbler  2

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S151613436