Martin H. Burns Wildlife Management Area, Essex, Massachusetts, US

May 27, 2025 6:45 AM – 9:30 AM

Protocol: Traveling

3.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Walked the loop clock-wise.  Led BBC walk.

45 species

Canada Goose  1

Mourning Dove  6

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2

Double-crested Cormorant  3

Great Blue Heron  3

Turkey Vulture  1

Osprey  2

Red-shouldered Hawk  1    Interacting with an Osprey.

Belted Kingfisher  1    Heard flying overhead before walk started.

Olive-sided Flycatcher  1    Posibly two.  Shortly after we started the loop, I heard the “quick, three-beers” song in the distance.  Latter on, just before we got to the gun range, we watched this bird for 5 minutes.  It was perched on a snag, silently darting out after prey.

Eastern Wood-Pewee  1

Eastern Phoebe  1

Great Crested Flycatcher  2

Eastern Kingbird  2

Yellow-throated Vireo  1    Heard singing, “three-eight, three-eight” slowly.  Behind the garage before the walk started.

Eastern Warbling Vireo  1

Red-eyed Vireo  2

Blue Jay  3

Black-capped Chickadee  1

Tufted Titmouse  1

Tree Swallow  1

Gray Catbird  8

Wood Thrush  2

American Robin  3

Cedar Waxwing  10

American Goldfinch  3

Chipping Sparrow  1

Song Sparrow  1

Eastern Towhee  6

Baltimore Oriole  2

Red-winged Blackbird  2

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Common Grackle  2

Ovenbird  4

Blue-winged Warbler  4

Black-and-white Warbler  1

Common Yellowthroat  5

American Redstart  1

Magnolia Warbler  1

Northern Yellow Warbler  2

Blackpoll Warbler  1

Pine Warbler  1

Northern Cardinal  1

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  4

Indigo Bunting  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S286781150