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Parker River NWR–Hellcat Dike, Essex, Massachusetts, US

Oct 19, 2024 7:45 AM – 11:00 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.966 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk- Hellcat at Parker River NWR- Leader Nickilas Paulson- 1 participant. Cold to start but warmed up quick. Clear skies, low wind. Kinglets were heard throughout. Many Cormorants migrating past. Lots of hunters, so less ducks than expected. Walked a loop down the dike (opened for NWR week) to the Wardens, and back the road to the boardwalk then  along the boardwalk.

53 species (+3 other taxa)

Canada Goose  80

Blue-winged Teal  1

Gadwall  8

American Black Duck  60

Green-winged Teal (American)  25

Mourning Dove  1

Black-bellied Plover  6

Semipalmated Plover  1

Greater Yellowlegs  6

White-rumped Sandpiper  2

shorebird sp.  20

Ring-billed Gull  1

Herring Gull (American)  15

gull sp.  30

Common Loon  10

Double-crested Cormorant  400

Black-crowned Night Heron  1    Likely same bird circled back, but possibly two.

Great Egret  6

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  3

Northern Harrier  1

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  2

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  4

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1

Eastern Phoebe  2

Blue Jay  20

American Crow  2

Black-capped Chickadee  15

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  3

Golden-crowned Kinglet  16

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  3

Red-breasted Nuthatch  2

Brown Creeper  1

Carolina Wren  1

European Starling  2

Northern Mockingbird  1

Eastern Bluebird  1

American Robin  6

American Pipit  2

House Finch  2

American Goldfinch  9

Chipping Sparrow  24

Field Sparrow  1

Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  9

White-throated Sparrow  11

Saltmarsh Sparrow  2

Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  6

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  25

Eastern Towhee  2

Eastern Meadowlark (Eastern)  3

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  50

Orange-crowned Warbler (Gray-headed)  2

Common Yellowthroat  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  30

new world warbler sp.  1    Sounded like Palm.

Northern Cardinal  5

Indigo Bunting  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S199694986

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