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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

ANNUAL REPORT 1991

THE 1991 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist, StatisticianDuring 1991, the Brookline Bird Club listed 291 species on 154 recorded field trips. A total of 192 trips were scheduled: 76 all day, 94 morning, 17 [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1990

THE 1990 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician In 1990, the Brookline Bird Club listed 286 species on 161 recorded field trips. A total of 196 trips were scheduled: 75 all-day, 94 morning, 24 afternoon or evening, and 3 weekend trips. Five trips were cancelled due to bad weather and 30 trips went unreported.          ' The following write-ins to the Massachusetts Audubon Society (MAS) checklist were reported by the Club in 1990: Sandhill CraneNewburyportMay 27Clay-colored SparrowPlymouthJune 2Cerulean WarblerQuabbinJune 3Gull-billed TernPlum IslandJune 30Curlew SandpiperPlum IslandJuly 7Spotted RedshankWellfleetAugust 11Purple GallinuleFresh PondSeptember 26American AvocetNewburyportOctober 7MacGillivray's WarblerPeabodyOctober 13Le Conte's SparrowPeabodyOctober 13Lark BuntingPlum IslandOctober 28. The Spotted Redshank found at the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary on August 11 [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1989

THE 1989 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician In 1989, the Brookline Bird Club listed 284 species, two ad­ditional races, and a Black Swan on 163 recorded field trips. A total of 188 trips were scheduled: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1988

THE 1988 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician In 1988, the Brookline Bird Club scheduled 202 field trips: eighty-three all-day, ninety-one morning, and twenty-five afternoon or evening trips. In addition there were three BBC [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1987

THE 1987 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician During 1987, the Brookline Bird Club listed 290 species and one additional race on 198 recorded field trips. A total of 220 trips were scheduled; eleven [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1986

THE 1986 STATISTICAL REPORT by Mary Lou Barnett, Statistician During 1986 the Brookline Bird Club listed 307 birds including 21 write-ins. These unusual sightings included the following: Yellow-throated Warbler            Brewster           1-5 Hoary Redpoll                           Newburyport    3-15 Jackdaw                                    Nantucket         3-16 Eared Grebe                              North Scituate  3-22 [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1991

THE 1991 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist, StatisticianDuring 1991, the Brookline Bird Club listed 291 species on 154 recorded field trips. A total of 192 trips were scheduled: 76 all day, 94 morning, 17 [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1990

THE 1990 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician In 1990, the Brookline Bird Club listed 286 species on 161 recorded field trips. A total of 196 trips were scheduled: 75 all-day, 94 morning, 24 afternoon or evening, and 3 weekend trips. Five trips were cancelled due to bad weather and 30 trips went unreported.          ' The following write-ins to the Massachusetts Audubon Society (MAS) checklist were reported by the Club in 1990: Sandhill CraneNewburyportMay 27Clay-colored SparrowPlymouthJune 2Cerulean WarblerQuabbinJune 3Gull-billed TernPlum IslandJune 30Curlew SandpiperPlum IslandJuly 7Spotted RedshankWellfleetAugust 11Purple GallinuleFresh PondSeptember 26American AvocetNewburyportOctober 7MacGillivray's WarblerPeabodyOctober 13Le Conte's SparrowPeabodyOctober 13Lark BuntingPlum IslandOctober 28. The Spotted Redshank found at the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary on August 11 [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1989

THE 1989 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician In 1989, the Brookline Bird Club listed 284 species, two ad­ditional races, and a Black Swan on 163 recorded field trips. A total of 188 trips were scheduled: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1988

THE 1988 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician In 1988, the Brookline Bird Club scheduled 202 field trips: eighty-three all-day, ninety-one morning, and twenty-five afternoon or evening trips. In addition there were three BBC [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1987

THE 1987 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician During 1987, the Brookline Bird Club listed 290 species and one additional race on 198 recorded field trips. A total of 220 trips were scheduled; eleven [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1986

THE 1986 STATISTICAL REPORT by Mary Lou Barnett, Statistician During 1986 the Brookline Bird Club listed 307 birds including 21 write-ins. These unusual sightings included the following: Yellow-throated Warbler            Brewster           1-5 Hoary Redpoll                           Newburyport    3-15 Jackdaw                                    Nantucket         3-16 Eared Grebe                              North Scituate  3-22 [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1991

THE 1991 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist, StatisticianDuring 1991, the Brookline Bird Club listed 291 species on 154 recorded field trips. A total of 192 trips were scheduled: 76 all day, 94 morning, 17 [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1990

THE 1990 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician In 1990, the Brookline Bird Club listed 286 species on 161 recorded field trips. A total of 196 trips were scheduled: 75 all-day, 94 morning, 24 afternoon or evening, and 3 weekend trips. Five trips were cancelled due to bad weather and 30 trips went unreported.          ' The following write-ins to the Massachusetts Audubon Society (MAS) checklist were reported by the Club in 1990: Sandhill CraneNewburyportMay 27Clay-colored SparrowPlymouthJune 2Cerulean WarblerQuabbinJune 3Gull-billed TernPlum IslandJune 30Curlew SandpiperPlum IslandJuly 7Spotted RedshankWellfleetAugust 11Purple GallinuleFresh PondSeptember 26American AvocetNewburyportOctober 7MacGillivray's WarblerPeabodyOctober 13Le Conte's SparrowPeabodyOctober 13Lark BuntingPlum IslandOctober 28. The Spotted Redshank found at the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary on August 11 [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1989

THE 1989 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician In 1989, the Brookline Bird Club listed 284 species, two ad­ditional races, and a Black Swan on 163 recorded field trips. A total of 188 trips were scheduled: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1988

THE 1988 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician In 1988, the Brookline Bird Club scheduled 202 field trips: eighty-three all-day, ninety-one morning, and twenty-five afternoon or evening trips. In addition there were three BBC [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1987

THE 1987 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician During 1987, the Brookline Bird Club listed 290 species and one additional race on 198 recorded field trips. A total of 220 trips were scheduled; eleven [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1986

THE 1986 STATISTICAL REPORT by Mary Lou Barnett, Statistician During 1986 the Brookline Bird Club listed 307 birds including 21 write-ins. These unusual sightings included the following: Yellow-throated Warbler            Brewster           1-5 Hoary Redpoll                           Newburyport    3-15 Jackdaw                                    Nantucket         3-16 Eared Grebe                              North Scituate  3-22 [...]

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