Cumberland Farms–River St. Entrance, Plymouth, Massachusetts, US
20-Jan-2024 07:01 – 09:13
Protocol: Traveling
2.975 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club walk. Trip leader Ray Bedard the only attendee.
15 degrees, cloudy, light wind
25 species
Mourning Dove  1
Ring-billed Gull  8
Northern Harrier  8    One gray ghost. The rest were female/ immature types
Short-eared Owl (Northern)  1
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1
Merlin  1
Common Raven  20    Estimate of birds flying from east end of fields towards the south. Some very distant
Tufted Titmouse  1
Golden-crowned Kinglet  1
Carolina Wren  1
European Starling  10
Gray Catbird  2
American Robin  25
American Goldfinch  11
Field Sparrow  1
American Tree Sparrow  45
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  1
White-crowned Sparrow  3    2 adults on right side on the way in. One juvenile on the way out. Regular here in winter
White-throated Sparrow  2
Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  2
Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  6
Swamp Sparrow  8
Eastern Meadowlark (Eastern)  20    Estimate. They were flying in and out from under the solar panels. They regularly overwinter here
Northern Cardinal  6
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S159400469

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