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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 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

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