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

May 29, 2022 6:33 AM – 9:36 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.25 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    68, sunny. Full loop.

BBC walk, J. Forbes leader. Lot of distant heard only things on here.

46 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  25

Mute Swan  1

Wood Duck  10

Mallard  12

Hooded Merganser  2

Mourning Dove  4

Chimney Swift  2

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  4

Common Gallinule  1    Frustratingly brief leader only bird from the bench along the river to the left. Across the pool, slightly the right is a gap in the cattails with low vegetation. Had a couple second view of a slaty coot-like bird with some red above the bill, body was obscured by vegetation. Bird moved back behind the reeds and that was it.

Killdeer  2

Double-crested Cormorant  4

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  3

Osprey (carolinensis)  1

Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  2

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1

Eastern Wood-Pewee  3

Willow Flycatcher  3

Great Crested Flycatcher  1

Eastern Kingbird  2

Yellow-throated Vireo  2

Warbling Vireo (Eastern)  4

Blue Jay  1

Black-capped Chickadee  2

Tufted Titmouse  1

Tree Swallow  7

Barn Swallow (American)  3

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  1

Brown Creeper  1

Marsh Wren (palustris Group)  4

Gray Catbird  3

American Robin  3

Cedar Waxwing  2

American Goldfinch  4

Chipping Sparrow  1

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  10

Swamp Sparrow  3

Baltimore Oriole  2

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  20

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  30

Ovenbird  1

Common Yellowthroat  4

Yellow Warbler (Northern)  8

Pine Warbler  1

warbler sp. (Parulidae sp.)  1    Snippet of song along railroad bed

Northern Cardinal  1

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S111688257