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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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