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

Aug 21, 2020 5:13 PM – 7:51 PM

Protocol: Traveling

1.027 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC – Great Meadows NWR, Concord – Leader: Kathy Dia – Blue skies with some clouds and a beautiful sunset. Upper 80’sF. We walked to the river and back.

31 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  5

Wood Duck  15

Mallard  6

Common Nighthawk  5

Chimney Swift  35

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2

Virginia Rail  1

rail/crake sp.  1    Briefly heard slurred nasal call between mid-dike and river (Upper Pool). Possible Sora, but would have liked to hear it again.

Killdeer  7

Least Sandpiper  22

Spotted Sandpiper  2

Solitary Sandpiper  1

Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs  1    Heard call once in flight, and not clearly.

Great Blue Heron  9

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  4    Appeared to be a family unit. perching together in dead treetops and sometimes calling “wicka wicka”.

Eastern Wood-Pewee  1

Eastern Phoebe  2

Eastern Kingbird  6

Blue Jay  1

Black-capped Chickadee  4

Tufted Titmouse  3

Tree Swallow  30

Barn Swallow  35

Marsh Wren  3

European Starling  1

Gray Catbird  2

House Finch  2

American Goldfinch  7

Song Sparrow  6

Red-winged Blackbird  4

Yellow Warbler  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S72753251