Great Meadows NWR–Concord Unit, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US
Sep 8, 2016 5:15 PM – 7:45 PM
Protocol: Traveling
0.5 mile(s)
Comments: Brookline Bird Club – Great Meadows NWR-Concord Unit – Leader: Kathy Dia – Cloudy but warm, upper 70’s F. The impoundments have little water and quite a lot of vegetation this year. It was rather quiet except for an abundance of waders. Three of us stayed an extra half hour or so on the mid-dike platform and were rewarded with a Bittern sighting at around 7:30 pm. <br />Submitted from eBird for iOS, version 1.2.2 Build 70
27 species
Canada Goose 4
Wood Duck 24 Most were seen going to roost at sunset
Mallard (Northern) 5
American Bittern 1 Seen in the Lower Pool at sunset landing in channel then flushed to Upper Pool.
Great Blue Heron 9
Great Egret 22 Collecting in the marsh with about only half the number visible. As the group headed down to the river, Cherrie Corey remained on the mid-Dike platform from which she watched 20 egrets leave the Lower Pool heading SE over the tree line. After Cherrie left we saw two more egrets exit.
Green Heron 2
Least Sandpiper 1 Heard
Wilson’s Snipe 1 Heard exiting the Upper Pool at sunset “skype”!
Spotted Sandpiper 1 Heard
Solitary Sandpiper 1 Heard
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Eastern Phoebe 2
Warbling Vireo 1
Blue Jay 5
American Crow 1
Tree Swallow 1
Black-capped Chickadee 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Marsh Wren 7
Gray Catbird 4
Song Sparrow 7
Swamp Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 1
Red-winged Blackbird 32 All in one flock over river
Common Grackle 2 In flock with red-wings
American Goldfinch 5
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