Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Oct 20, 2016 7:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Protocol: Traveling
12.0 mile(s)
Comments: Led BBC walk. YB cuckoo provided fantastic looks at the Wardens. 48 degrees, windy, sunny to start, 58 and partly cloudy to finish.
51 species (+2 other taxa)
Canada Goose 23
American Wigeon 46 Salt Pannes.
American Black Duck 245
Mallard 9
Northern Pintail 39 BFP
Green-winged Teal 147 BFP
Common Eider 1 Male. Emerson Rocks.
Surf Scoter 2 Males. Emerson Rocks.
White-winged Scoter 39 Parking lot 1 and Emerson Rocks.
Black Scoter 19 One flew by from Emerson Rocks
Long-tailed Duck 2 Adults. Emerson Rocks.
Common/Red-breasted Merganser 2
Common Loon 2
Northern Gannet 12 Parking lot 1 and Emerson Rocks.
Double-crested Cormorant 6
Great Blue Heron 5
Great Egret 34
Turkey Vulture 12
Northern Harrier 3
Cooper’s Hawk 2
Black-bellied Plover 13 BFP, SIP, & PI Sound from the Wardens.
Semipalmated Plover 3
Sanderling 13 Emerson Rocks.
Dunlin 200 Minimum, probably many more. PI Sound from the Wardens.
Greater Yellowlegs 32
Ring-billed Gull 2
Herring Gull 21
Great Black-backed Gull 5
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 11 Looking north from parking lot 1.
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Wardens. Right along the parking lot and in a small tree just behind the building.
Downy Woodpecker 2
Merlin 1
Blue Jay 5
American Crow 14
Horned Lark 5 SIP
Black-capped Chickadee 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
American Robin 7
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 4
European Starling 18
American Pipit 4 SIP
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 14
warbler sp. (Parulidae sp.) 1
Field Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 8
Swamp Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 1
Red-winged Blackbird 1
American Goldfinch 1
View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/
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