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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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ANNUAL REPORT 2005

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ANNUAL REPORT 2004

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ANNUAL REPORT 2009

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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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