Marblehead Neck Wildlife Sanctuary, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Apr 25, 2017 6:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
Comments:     A cold (48 degrees) dreary morning with intermittent sprinkles and few migrants – two other birders hooked up with us off and on during the walk.  Surprised not to see one Kinglet or Hermit Thrush.
23 species (+1 other taxa)

Mallard  2
Wild Turkey  2
gull sp.  6
Great Horned Owl  1     Being mobbed when we first met, crows kept moving around the Sanctuary.
Downy Woodpecker  2
Northern Flicker  2
Eastern Phoebe  2
Blue Jay  1
American Crow  10
Black-capped Chickadee  12
Tufted Titmouse  11
Red-breasted Nuthatch  3
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
Brown Creeper  1     see by another birder we met
American Robin  2
Chipping Sparrow  1
White-throated Sparrow  9
Eastern Towhee  1
Northern Cardinal  9
Red-winged Blackbird  2
Common Grackle  4
Brown-headed Cowbird  1
House Finch  2
American Goldfinch  4

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S36519351

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