Ipswich Town Farm, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Oct 1, 2017 7:45 AM – 11:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
Comments: I joined Tom Young’s BBC walk along with Linda Pivacek, Susan Hedman, Marj Watson, Daan Sandee, Noel Mann, and Dana Jewell. We spent the whole morning at the town farm, though the variety was not that great, esp. for sparrows (only 4 sp.) and warblers (only 3). Also no orioles,tanagers, or even house finches! But we found a dickcissel and 2 Lincoln’s sparrows, among others.
43 species (+2 other taxa)
Double-crested Cormorant 7
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 3
Snowy Egret 7
Turkey Vulture 13
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Greater Yellowlegs 20
Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs 10 distant
Herring Gull 33
Mourning Dove 1
Eastern Screech-Owl 1 responded to our imitations
Belted Kingfisher 1 One twice in two places, or two separate birds.
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 7
Northern Flicker 3 none seen, to my knowledge
Merlin 2
Peregrine Falcon 1 all 3 falcons seen well
Eastern Phoebe 2
Blue-headed Vireo 2
Blue Jay 21
American Crow 18
Black-capped Chickadee 12
Tufted Titmouse 5
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Carolina Wren 1
Eastern Bluebird 1
Hermit Thrush 1
American Robin 40
Gray Catbird 9
European Starling 400
Common Yellowthroat 2
Palm Warbler (Western) 2
Palm Warbler (Yellow) 2 All four PAWAs were together for side-by-side comparison.
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 2
White-throated Sparrow 2
Savannah Sparrow 4
Song Sparrow 35
Lincoln’s Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 6
Indigo Bunting 3
Dickcissel 1
Bobolink 1
Red-winged Blackbird 30
American Goldfinch 45
House Sparrow 30
View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S39569096
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