Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary (general area), Bristol, Massachusetts, US
Oct 15, 2017 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
Comments:     Brookline Bird Club walk – Leader Nickilas Paulson – Allen’s Pond, Westport – 6 participants. slow migration day, humid and foggy.
39 species (+4 other taxa)

Mute Swan  4
Blue-winged Teal  1
Mallard  2
American Black Duck  22
Common Eider  2
Black Scoter  1
Red-throated Loon  1
Double-crested Cormorant  30
Great Blue Heron  5
Great Egret  12     Quick low count estimate. Likely many more distant.
Northern Harrier  1
Sharp-shinned/Cooper’s Hawk  1
Black-bellied Plover  2
Sanderling  6
Pectoral Sandpiper  1
peep sp.  1
Greater Yellowlegs  6
Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs  10
Laughing Gull  80
Ring-billed Gull  12
Herring Gull  100
Great Black-backed Gull  4
Downy Woodpecker  1
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2
Blue Jay  14
American Crow  4
Tree Swallow  40
swallow sp.  1     Quick view with Tree Swallow flock. Flew out to sea. Seamed a little more Martin like though.
Black-capped Chickadee  4
Tufted Titmouse  2
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
Carolina Wren  1
American Robin  30
Gray Catbird  3
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  60
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  11
Song Sparrow  7
Swamp Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  3
House Finch  2
House Sparrow  1

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S40048237

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