Belle Isle Marsh–John Joseph Kilmartin Pathway, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US
Aug 30, 2026 8:06 AM – 10:03 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.697 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Collaborative Mass Audubon and Brookline Bird Club walk. Neil Calabro, Sam Harris, and Mike McCarthy, co-leaders.
37 species
American Black Duck 5
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 1
Chimney Swift 3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Killdeer 3
Semipalmated Plover 8
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Greater Yellowlegs 9
Least Sandpiper 13
Semipalmated Sandpiper 20
Laughing Gull 1
American Herring Gull 5
Double-crested Cormorant 21
Snowy Egret 5
Great Egret 6
Great Blue Heron 2
Osprey (American) 1
Cooper’s Hawk 1 Juvenile
Northern Harrier 1 Juvenile
Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Juvenile
Red-tailed Hawk (borealis) 1 Juvenile
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 2
Peregrine Falcon (North American) 2 Immature carrying a pigeon, and plucking it. Adult consuming a shorebird.
Blue Jay 4
Tree Swallow 28
Barn Swallow (American) 4
European Starling 9
Gray Catbird 5
Northern Mockingbird 1
American Robin 3
Cedar Waxwing 3
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 5
Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica) 2
Common Grackle (Bronzed) 2
Northern Yellow Warbler 1
Northern Cardinal 1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S389355143
Short Beach, Winthrop, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US
Aug 30, 2026 10:04 AM – 10:52 AM
Protocol: Stationary
Checklist Comments: Collaborative Mass Audubon and Brookline Bird Club walk. Neil Calabro, Sam Harris, and Mike McCarthy, co-leaders.
17 species
Common Eider (Dresser’s) 100 Estimated
White-winged Scoter 2 Two drakes
Black Scoter 2 Two drakes
Mourning Dove 2
American Oystercatcher 1
Semipalmated Plover 1
Ruddy Turnstone 3
Bonaparte’s Gull 2
Laughing Gull 12
Ring-billed Gull 2
American Herring Gull 30
Least Tern 2 Flying over toward Nahant
Common Tern (hirundo/tibetana) 25
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel 1 East of Nahant
Osprey (American) 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
American Crow 8
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S389355150
Belle Isle Marsh–John Joseph Kilmartin Pathway, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US
Aug 30, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:04 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.07 kilometer(s)
Checklist Comments: Rising Mid Tide
Joint BBC/BNC Walk
Leaders: Samuel Harris & Neil Calabro
25 species (+3 other taxa)
Canada Goose 5 Gaggle foraging in N Pannes of Belle Isle till they flew above RPM’s Fitness Parking Lot.
American Black Duck 5 Female with 4 Ducklings
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 20
Hudsonian Whimbrel 1 **Scarce Migrant. After the CATEs had passed overhead, this medium-sized all-striated brown shorebird with a lengthy black decurved bill appeared & landed into the grasses along the Creek. We hoped it would reappear, but nothing. NO white present, so not Eurasian. Incredibly fast, too fast for my shutter speed.
Spotted Sandpiper 1
peep sp. 1 Landed into Belle Isle Pannes
Laughing Gull 1 Molting Adult headed SW above Creek with CATEs
American Herring Gull 2
Caspian Tern 2 *Early. Adults spotted following a LAGU above the Creek towards Saratoga St Bridge. Overall, their large size, even larger than the LAGU, bright red thick bills, black caps, gray upperbodies, black underprimaries, and white underbody & forked tails diagnostic.
tern sp. 1 Far smaller than LAGU & CATEs it was chasing. Looked like a COTE.
Double-crested Cormorant 4
Snowy Egret 2
Great Egret 12
Great Blue Heron (Great Blue) 1
Osprey (American) 1
Red-shouldered Hawk (lineatus Group) 1 *Continuing Juvenile seen this morning. Circling overhead at (42.388291,-70.982760) showing slender body, brown striated chest, pale underprimary crescents, and long banded tail. Unlike RTHA’s chest band & short banded tail.
Eastern Phoebe 3
Blue Jay 1
American Crow 1
Barn Swallow (American) 1
Carolina Wren 1 Chattering by Gym
European Starling 20 Estimated
Gray Catbird 3
American Robin 6
House Sparrow 15 Flock at Parking Lot
American Goldfinch 2
Northern Cardinal 1
passerine sp. 1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S389355154
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