Magazine Beach Park, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US
13-May-2023 07:30 – 09:42
Protocol: Traveling
1.391 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:    BBC – Magazine Beach Park – Leaders: Peter Modest, Ryan McLaughlin – Great sunny morning in the 70s, with wind picking up around 8am.
53 species
Canada Goose  38
Mallard  1
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  7
Mourning Dove  5
Black-billed Cuckoo  1    Bird of the day! Moving between trees along Memorial Drive and the ditch.
Chimney Swift  2
Killdeer  2    One flyover, one landing in the outfield
Greater Yellowlegs  1    Flew off at about 7:25am. First report of park.
Ring-billed Gull  5
Herring Gull  4
Double-crested Cormorant  12    Conservative estimate. Many flyovers with ~6 swimming in the Charles.
Great Blue Heron  2
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1    Flyover
Cooper’s Hawk  1    Soaring high
Downy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  2
Peregrine Falcon  2
Least Flycatcher  1
Blue-headed Vireo  1
Warbling Vireo  4
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Blue Jay  6
Tufted Titmouse  2
Tree Swallow  2
European Starling  45
Gray Catbird  12
Brown Thrasher  1
Northern Mockingbird  1
Wood Thrush  1    Seen fly past briefly by 2
American Robin  3
House Sparrow  6
House Finch  1
American Goldfinch  8
Chipping Sparrow  1
White-throated Sparrow  18
Savannah Sparrow  7
Song Sparrow  7
Swamp Sparrow  1
Bobolink  1
Orchard Oriole  1    1F – between trees surrounding the phragmites
Baltimore Oriole  4
Red-winged Blackbird  9
Common Grackle  4
Northern Waterthrush  2    Both in the ditch
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  2
American Redstart  1
Northern Parula  2
Yellow Warbler  5
Black-throated Blue Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  1
Wilson’s Warbler  2    One in the ditch, one on the eastern edge of the phragmites
Northern Cardinal  2
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S137495350

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