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Daniel Webster Wildlife Sanctuary (Mass Audubon), Plymouth, Massachusetts, US

Aug 30, 2025 6:45 AM – 11:30 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.4 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC/SSBC trip; Glenn d’Entremont leader; 12 participants

45 species (+2 other taxa)

Mallard  5

Wild Turkey  5

Mourning Dove  2

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  3

Lesser/Greater Yellowlegs  1

Double-crested Cormorant  1

Glossy Ibis  10

Green Heron  1

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  4

Turkey Vulture  1

Osprey (American)  4

Red-tailed Hawk  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  3

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  4

Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill’s Flycatcher)  1    likely Willow which nests here, no noticeable eye ring, brownish head and back

Eastern Phoebe  11

Great Crested Flycatcher  1

Warbling Vireo (Eastern)  2    one still singing

Red-eyed Vireo  1    still singing

Blue Jay  16

American Crow  2

Black-capped Chickadee  13

Tufted Titmouse  7

Tree Swallow  750

Barn Swallow (American)  4

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  5

Carolina Wren  10

European Starling  X

Gray Catbird  58

Northern Mockingbird  1

Eastern Bluebird  5

American Robin  17

Cedar Waxwing  35

House Sparrow  X

House Finch  3

American Goldfinch  10

Song Sparrow  28

Swamp Sparrow  1

Bobolink  6

Baltimore Oriole  2

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  1

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Common Grackle  1

Common Yellowthroat  5

Northern Cardinal  9

Dickcissel  1    flyover

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S270937825

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