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