Great Meadows NWR–Concord Unit, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 23, 2021 6:27 AM – 9:50 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.5 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    70-80, sunny.

49 species

Canada Goose  8

Mute Swan  7    Not a good count of the young

Wood Duck  15    One family group of 8 with a second female that eventually took off

Mallard  2

Hooded Merganser  2

Mourning Dove  4

Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1    Singing presumably across river

Virginia Rail (Virginia)  5    1 at parking lot, 1 down to left, 3 calling to each other to right

Killdeer  1

Solitary Sandpiper  2    (Leader only?)

Double-crested Cormorant  1

Least Bittern  1

Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  6

Green Heron  1

Broad-winged Hawk  1

Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2

Eastern Wood-Pewee  1

Willow Flycatcher  3

Great Crested Flycatcher  2

Eastern Kingbird  5

Yellow-throated Vireo  1

Warbling Vireo (Eastern)  4

Blue Jay  5

Tufted Titmouse  1

Tree Swallow  10

Barn Swallow (American)  6

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  1

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (caerulea)  2

House Wren (Northern)  1

Marsh Wren (palustris Group)  4

Gray Catbird  2

Wood Thrush  1

American Robin  5

American Goldfinch  1

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  8

Swamp Sparrow  3

Orchard Oriole  1

Baltimore Oriole  3

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  25

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  40

Ovenbird  2

Common Yellowthroat  3

Yellow Warbler (Northern)  7

Pine Warbler  1

Northern Cardinal  1

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  3

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S89126786