Eastern Point–General Area, Essex, Massachusetts, US

May 11, 2025 6:52 AM – 12:06 PM

Protocol: Traveling

3.5 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Very windy found pockets of warblers and other migrants, very successful outing The Merlin app also picked up Prairie Warbler and Canada Warbler, but we could find them.

70 species (+1 other taxa)

Mallard  7

Lesser Scaup  2

Common Eider  5

Red-breasted Merganser  2

Wild Turkey  2

Mourning Dove  2

Chimney Swift  2

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2

Killdeer  1

Least Sandpiper  4

peep sp.  13

American Herring Gull  10

Great Black-backed Gull  4

Common Loon  1

Double-crested Cormorant  15

Great Egret  1

Turkey Vulture  1

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Bald Eagle  1

Red-tailed Hawk  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  1

Downy Woodpecker  3

Northern Flicker  1

Eastern Phoebe  2

Blue-headed Vireo  5

Blue Jay  8

American Crow  3

Fish Crow  1

Black-capped Chickadee  4

Tufted Titmouse  5

Tree Swallow  2

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  3

Barn Swallow  8

White-breasted Nuthatch  2

Red-breasted Nuthatch  1

Northern House Wren  5

Carolina Wren  7

European Starling  3

Gray Catbird  24

Northern Mockingbird  2

American Robin  4

House Finch  6

American Goldfinch  10

Chipping Sparrow  5

Field Sparrow  1

White-throated Sparrow  4

Song Sparrow  3

Baltimore Oriole  12

Red-winged Blackbird  10

Brown-headed Cowbird  6

Common Grackle  10

Ovenbird  6

Northern Waterthrush  2

Black-and-white Warbler  9

Tennessee Warbler  1

Nashville Warbler  2

Common Yellowthroat  1

Cape May Warbler  4

Northern Parula  14

Magnolia Warbler  5

Bay-breasted Warbler  2

Blackburnian Warbler  2

Yellow Warbler  6

Chestnut-sided Warbler  3

Blackpoll Warbler  2

Black-throated Blue Warbler  3

Yellow-rumped Warbler  5

Black-throated Green Warbler  13

Scarlet Tanager  3

Northern Cardinal  7

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S237070026

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