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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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