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Belle Isle Marsh–John Joseph Kilmartin Pathway, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

Jul 26, 2026 8:00 AM – 9:59 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.087 kilometer(s)

Checklist Comments:    Mass Audubon and Brookline Bird Club collaborative walk. Neil Calabro, Sam Harris, Mike McCarthy, co-leaders.

38 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  12

Mallard  1

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  25    18 flying around Orient Heights

Mourning Dove  8

Chimney Swift  2

Killdeer  9

Short-billed Dowitcher (griseus)  1

Spotted Sandpiper  2

Willet (Eastern)  2

Lesser/Greater Yellowlegs  9

Least Sandpiper  5

Semipalmated Sandpiper  6

peep sp.  25    Looked like Semis in Belle Isle pannes.

American Herring Gull  2

Least Tern  1

Common Tern  4

Double-crested Cormorant  7

Snowy Egret  10

Great Egret  2

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  3

Osprey (American)  2

Red-shouldered Hawk  1    First Cycle Juvenile (FCJ). Feathers are fresh, no wing molt evident. Where could this youngster have come from? Cropped & lightened photos show their slender body, chest striations, primary crescents, and black-tipped primaries.

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2    Heard

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  3

Blue Jay  2

Tree Swallow  3

Barn Swallow (American)  3

Carolina Wren  1    Singing from behind overlook

European Starling  230    Estimate

Gray Catbird  2

Northern Mockingbird  2

American Robin  44

Cedar Waxwing  2

House Sparrow  15    Albino Adult

House Finch  5

American Goldfinch  6

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  3

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  10

Northern Yellow Warbler  2

Northern Cardinal  3

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S378766056

Short Beach, Winthrop, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

Jul 26, 2026 9:57 AM – 10:15 AM

12 species

Common Eider (Dresser’s)  45    Estimated. Many Juveniles.

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  5

American Oystercatcher  6    5 headed to Winthrop, 1 on Wavebreaker

Ring-billed Gull  2

American Herring Gull  7

Great Black-backed Gull  1    Adult swimming with Eiders off Wavebreaker

Common Tern  16

Wilson’s Storm-Petrel  7    *4 following a Blue Lobster boat within Broad Sound, while 3 circled N of another boat between Nahant & Winthrop. Unmistakable tiny swallow size, swallow-like flight, brown plumage, white rumps & black tails. Scope required.

Double-crested Cormorant  100    Estimated. Majority on Wavebreaker.

Great Egret  1

Barn Swallow (American)  2

House Sparrow  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S378766077

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2009 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 2009, the Brookline Bird Club listed 305 species of birds on 194 reported trips, just one species less than last year. A [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 2008

2008 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician During 2008, the Brookline Bird Club listed 306 species of birds on 190 reported trips, three species less than last year. A total [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 2007

2007 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 2007, the Brookline Bird Club listed 309 species of birds on 213 reported trips, one species more than last year. A total [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 2006

2006 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 2006, the Brookline Bird Club listed 306 species of birds on 208 reported trips, one species more than last year. A total [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 2005

2005 Statistical and Year End Report By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician During 2005, the Brookline Bird Club listed 305 species of birds on 228 reported trips, six species less than the previous year. To put [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 2004

2004 Statistical and Year-End Report By Bob Stymiest, Club Statistician During 2004, the Brookline Bird Club listed 311 species of birds on 243 reported trips, 17 species more than last year. To put this in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 2009

2009 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 2009, the Brookline Bird Club listed 305 species of birds on 194 reported trips, just one species less than last year. A [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 2008

2008 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician During 2008, the Brookline Bird Club listed 306 species of birds on 190 reported trips, three species less than last year. A total [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 2007

2007 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 2007, the Brookline Bird Club listed 309 species of birds on 213 reported trips, one species more than last year. A total [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 2006

2006 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 2006, the Brookline Bird Club listed 306 species of birds on 208 reported trips, one species more than last year. A total [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 2005

2005 Statistical and Year End Report By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician During 2005, the Brookline Bird Club listed 305 species of birds on 228 reported trips, six species less than the previous year. To put [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 2004

2004 Statistical and Year-End Report By Bob Stymiest, Club Statistician During 2004, the Brookline Bird Club listed 311 species of birds on 243 reported trips, 17 species more than last year. To put this in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 2009

2009 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 2009, the Brookline Bird Club listed 305 species of birds on 194 reported trips, just one species less than last year. A [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 2008

2008 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician During 2008, the Brookline Bird Club listed 306 species of birds on 190 reported trips, three species less than last year. A total [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 2007

2007 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 2007, the Brookline Bird Club listed 309 species of birds on 213 reported trips, one species more than last year. A total [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 2006

2006 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 2006, the Brookline Bird Club listed 306 species of birds on 208 reported trips, one species more than last year. A total [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 2005

2005 Statistical and Year End Report By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician During 2005, the Brookline Bird Club listed 305 species of birds on 228 reported trips, six species less than the previous year. To put [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 2004

2004 Statistical and Year-End Report By Bob Stymiest, Club Statistician During 2004, the Brookline Bird Club listed 311 species of birds on 243 reported trips, 17 species more than last year. To put this in [...]

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