Martin H. Burns Wildlife Management Area, Essex, Massachusetts, US
May 25, 2017 7:05 AM – 9:20 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.75 mile(s)
Comments:     Led BBC walk.  53 degrees and overcast to start, 53 degrees and light rain to end.  Very quiet. No Black-billed cuckoos or Olive-sided flycatchers.
36 species (+1 other taxa)

Wood Duck  2
Great Blue Heron  7     In heron rookery.
Turkey Vulture  1
Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  1
Mourning Dove  4
woodpecker sp.  1     Heard drumming.
Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Alder Flycatcher  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  2
Warbling Vireo  2
Red-eyed Vireo  3
Blue Jay  1
American Crow  3
Tree Swallow  3
Black-capped Chickadee  1
Tufted Titmouse  1
Wood Thrush  6     Great to hear so many.  Some folks got good looks at two.
American Robin  2
Gray Catbird  3
Cedar Waxwing  2
Ovenbird  1
Common Yellowthroat  7
American Redstart  1
Chestnut-sided Warbler  1
Pine Warbler  1
Song Sparrow  2
Eastern Towhee  3
Scarlet Tanager  6     Conservative count heard singing.
Northern Cardinal  2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  5     Conservative count heard singing.
Indigo Bunting  7
Red-winged Blackbird  5
Common Grackle  2
Brown-headed Cowbird  6
Baltimore Oriole  5
American Goldfinch  4

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S37146211

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