Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Nov 19, 2016 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
20.0 mile(s)
Comments:     BBC – Newburyport and Vicinity – Leader: Bob Petersen – partially cloudy, 50s, calm.
43 species

Canada Goose  20
Mute Swan  4
Gadwall  2
American Wigeon  2
American Black Duck  100
Mallard  12
Northern Pintail  50
Green-winged Teal  6
Common Eider  7
White-winged Scoter  4
Black Scoter  14
Bufflehead  8
Hooded Merganser  8
Red-breasted Merganser  1
Red-throated Loon  3
Common Loon  4
Horned Grebe  3
Red-necked Grebe  1
Northern Gannet  3
Great Cormorant  12
Double-crested Cormorant  6
Great Blue Heron  1
Northern Harrier  3
Red-tailed Hawk  2
Black-bellied Plover  8
Sanderling  7
Dunlin  22
Greater Yellowlegs  5
Ring-billed Gull  50
Herring Gull  20
Great Black-backed Gull  4
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  6
Mourning Dove  1
Peregrine Falcon  1
Blue Jay  3
American Crow  1
Common Raven  1
Black-capped Chickadee  1
Tufted Titmouse  1
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  40
Dark-eyed Junco  2
American Goldfinch  3

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S34425468

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