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

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