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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

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

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