Cumberland Farms–River St. Entrance, Plymouth, Massachusetts, US

Oct 27, 2024 7:34 AM – 11:34 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.5 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC Cumberland Farms Fields walk. A chilly 33 to start but ending the walk at 53. 3 participants, Carol and Moe Molander and Nick Paulson. I accidentally stopped the track shortly into the walk. Walked in past the old manure pit to the south trail and back down the west side of the fields.

43 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  5

Mallard  1

Green-winged Teal (American)  12

duck sp.  10    Distant large ducks.

Ring-necked Pheasant  1    Stocked. Flushed near the gate on the way out

Mourning Dove  12

Double-crested Cormorant  700

Sharp-shinned Hawk (Northern)  1

Cooper’s Hawk  2

Northern Harrier  6

Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  3

Red-bellied Woodpecker  1

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  3

Peregrine Falcon  1    A real dark individual most likely of the tundra subspecies

Blue Jay  10

American Crow  6

Common Raven  3

Black-capped Chickadee  10

Horned Lark  15

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  2

Golden-crowned Kinglet  4

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  1

Carolina Wren  5

European Starling  30

Northern Mockingbird  4

Eastern Bluebird  2

American Robin  50

American Pipit  1

House Finch  1

American Goldfinch  25

Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  3

White-crowned Sparrow  5

White-throated Sparrow  20

Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  5

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  25

Swamp Sparrow  60

Eastern Meadowlark (Eastern)  1

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  1

Rusty Blackbird  2

Nashville Warbler  2    One with bright yellow belly and UTC, white vent. Quick view flitting through thick shrubbery. GISS was immediately Nashville. Second bird was more drab but much better views. Drab yellow on chest and throat. Yellow UTC. Complete white eye ring ruling out OCWA which has a broken eye ring and no eye line ruling out Tennessee

Palm Warbler (Western)  1

Palm Warbler (Yellow)  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  7

Northern Cardinal  8

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S201144950