Eastern Point–General Area, Essex, Massachusetts, US

May 10, 2026 6:53 AM – 11:52 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.973 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Superb day on EP. Upper 50’s to low 60’s, very little wind, some fog and overcast that dissipated as the morning went on.

82 species (+1 other taxa)

Brant  7

Canada Goose  1

Mallard  22

American Black Duck  4

Common Eider  32

Surf Scoter  2

Black Scoter  1

Long-tailed Duck  1

Bufflehead  6

Wild Turkey  2

Mourning Dove  4

Chimney Swift  1

Killdeer  1

Semipalmated Plover  3

Least Sandpiper  1

Laughing Gull  3

Ring-billed Gull  6

American Herring Gull  1

Great Black-backed Gull  1

Common Loon  3

Northern Gannet  1

Double-crested Cormorant  22

Black-crowned Night Heron  1

Snowy Egret  1

Great Egret  1

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  4

Downy Woodpecker  3

Hairy Woodpecker  1

Merlin  1

falcon sp.  1

Least Flycatcher  7

Great Crested Flycatcher  2

Eastern Kingbird  2

Blue-headed Vireo  7

Red-eyed Vireo  1

Blue Jay  9

American Crow  4

Fish Crow  1

Black-capped Chickadee  4

Tufted Titmouse  3

Tree Swallow  18

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  7

Barn Swallow  20

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1

White-breasted Nuthatch  1

Northern House Wren  6

Carolina Wren  2

European Starling  1

Gray Catbird  20

Northern Mockingbird  3

Veery  2

American Robin  7

Cedar Waxwing  1

House Finch  6

American Goldfinch  8

Chipping Sparrow  3

White-throated Sparrow  2

Savannah Sparrow  2

Song Sparrow  4

Eastern Towhee  1

Baltimore Oriole  7

Red-winged Blackbird  14

Brown-headed Cowbird  7

Common Grackle  12

Ovenbird  2

Northern Waterthrush  1

Black-and-white Warbler  6

Nashville Warbler  4

Common Yellowthroat  2

American Redstart  1

Northern Parula  5

Magnolia Warbler  3

Blackburnian Warbler  4

Northern Yellow Warbler  12

Chestnut-sided Warbler  6

Black-throated Blue Warbler  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler  4

Black-throated Green Warbler  6

Scarlet Tanager  1

Northern Cardinal  3

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  6

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S337288474

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