Allen’s Pond WS, Bristol, Massachusetts, US
Nov 10, 2024 8:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Brookline Bird Club Walk-Allens Pond WS-Leader Nick Paulson
56 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose 14
Mute Swan 2
Gadwall 2
Mallard 12
American Black Duck 40
Common Eider (Dresser’s) 2
Surf Scoter 4
White-winged Scoter 10
Black Scoter 8
scoter sp. 100
Bufflehead 20
Common Goldeneye 2
Hooded Merganser 28
Red-breasted Merganser 60
Mourning Dove 1
Virginia Rail 1
Black-bellied Plover 1
Killdeer 1
Laughing Gull 1
Ring-billed Gull 60
American Herring Gull 30
Great Black-backed Gull 10
Horned Grebe 35
Red-necked Grebe 1
Red-throated Loon 20
Common Loon 12
Double-crested Cormorant 180
Great Blue Heron (Great Blue) 2
Cooper’s Hawk 2
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) 4
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 8
Blue Jay 4
American Crow 8
Black-capped Chickadee 12
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 5
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) 2
Winter Wren 1
Carolina Wren 14
European Starling 25
Gray Catbird 6
Northern Mockingbird 2
Hermit Thrush (faxoni/crymophilus) 8
American Robin 30
House Sparrow 6
American Pipit 1
House Finch 9
American Goldfinch 10
Snow Bunting 11
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 3
White-throated Sparrow 14
Savannah Sparrow (Savannah) 1
Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica) 10
Swamp Sparrow 3
Orange-crowned Warbler (Gray-headed) 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 23
Northern Cardinal 4
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S204121897
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