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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

ANNUAL REPORT 1985

STATISTICAL REPORT 1985 by Mary L. Barnett, Statistician “Come in, Barn Owl. We're at the Salt Pans. The Tundra Swan just landed.” BBC CB Radio Patrol 12-7-1985 The Birding Highlight of 1985 was the proliferation [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1984

STATISTICAL REPORT-1984  Our Life List is a storehouse of rich memories to which we added this year the monarch of shorebirds, the Long-billed Curlew, on the 9th of June. Like an echo, to the same [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1983

1983 BROOKLINE BIRD CLUB STATISTICAL REPORT During 1983 the Brookline Bird Club listed 300 Massachusetts species, and identified an additional six hybrids, subspecies, color morphs, or exotics, totaling 306 in all. Trips to Maine added [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1982

1982 STATISTICAL REPORT  In 1982 the Brookline Bird Club enriched its Massachu-setts Life Species List to 376 with the addition of Townsend's Solitaire, viewed at West Tisbury on January 3rd. Dr. Bob Timberlake’s Falmouth trip [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1981

1981 STATISTICAL REPORT “My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing There isn’t a [bird trip] I wouldn’t take No matter where it’s going!” (with apologies to [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1980

1980 STATISTICAL REPORT  During 1980 the Brookline Bird Club observed 313 species of birds as follows: Massachusetts, 299 species; New Hampshire, two additional species; New Jersey to North Carolina, 12 additional species. The 14 species [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1985

STATISTICAL REPORT 1985 by Mary L. Barnett, Statistician “Come in, Barn Owl. We're at the Salt Pans. The Tundra Swan just landed.” BBC CB Radio Patrol 12-7-1985 The Birding Highlight of 1985 was the proliferation [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1984

STATISTICAL REPORT-1984  Our Life List is a storehouse of rich memories to which we added this year the monarch of shorebirds, the Long-billed Curlew, on the 9th of June. Like an echo, to the same [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1983

1983 BROOKLINE BIRD CLUB STATISTICAL REPORT During 1983 the Brookline Bird Club listed 300 Massachusetts species, and identified an additional six hybrids, subspecies, color morphs, or exotics, totaling 306 in all. Trips to Maine added [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1982

1982 STATISTICAL REPORT  In 1982 the Brookline Bird Club enriched its Massachu-setts Life Species List to 376 with the addition of Townsend's Solitaire, viewed at West Tisbury on January 3rd. Dr. Bob Timberlake’s Falmouth trip [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1981

1981 STATISTICAL REPORT “My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing There isn’t a [bird trip] I wouldn’t take No matter where it’s going!” (with apologies to [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1980

1980 STATISTICAL REPORT  During 1980 the Brookline Bird Club observed 313 species of birds as follows: Massachusetts, 299 species; New Hampshire, two additional species; New Jersey to North Carolina, 12 additional species. The 14 species [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1985

STATISTICAL REPORT 1985 by Mary L. Barnett, Statistician “Come in, Barn Owl. We're at the Salt Pans. The Tundra Swan just landed.” BBC CB Radio Patrol 12-7-1985 The Birding Highlight of 1985 was the proliferation [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1984

STATISTICAL REPORT-1984  Our Life List is a storehouse of rich memories to which we added this year the monarch of shorebirds, the Long-billed Curlew, on the 9th of June. Like an echo, to the same [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1983

1983 BROOKLINE BIRD CLUB STATISTICAL REPORT During 1983 the Brookline Bird Club listed 300 Massachusetts species, and identified an additional six hybrids, subspecies, color morphs, or exotics, totaling 306 in all. Trips to Maine added [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1982

1982 STATISTICAL REPORT  In 1982 the Brookline Bird Club enriched its Massachu-setts Life Species List to 376 with the addition of Townsend's Solitaire, viewed at West Tisbury on January 3rd. Dr. Bob Timberlake’s Falmouth trip [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1981

1981 STATISTICAL REPORT “My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing There isn’t a [bird trip] I wouldn’t take No matter where it’s going!” (with apologies to [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1980

1980 STATISTICAL REPORT  During 1980 the Brookline Bird Club observed 313 species of birds as follows: Massachusetts, 299 species; New Hampshire, two additional species; New Jersey to North Carolina, 12 additional species. The 14 species [...]

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