Brookline Bird Club – America’s most active bird club!

Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Aug 27, 2016 7:00 AM – 11:45 AM
Protocol: Traveling
4.0 mile(s)
Comments:     Brookline Bird Club trip lead by Jonathan Center. Locations that were birded during the trip were Stage Island pool, Bill Forward pool from the blind, parking lot # 7/Emerson Rocks, and Sandy Point.
42 species

Canada Goose  X
Gadwall  1
Mallard  X
Northern Pintail  1
Green-winged Teal  10
Wild Turkey  2
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Double-crested Cormorant  40
Great Blue Heron  4
Great Egret  1
Snowy Egret  15
Osprey  2
Northern Harrier  1
Black-bellied Plover  35
Semipalmated Plover  250
Piping Plover  2
Killdeer  4
Hudsonian Godwit  1
Red Knot  5
Stilt Sandpiper  1
Sanderling  10
Dunlin  1
Least Sandpiper  100
White-rumped Sandpiper  8
Semipalmated Sandpiper  200
Short-billed Dowitcher  30
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Greater Yellowlegs  12
Black Guillemot  1     Observed from parking lot 7 from observation platform on ocean about 200-300 yards out. Observed through scope.
Ring-billed Gull  X
Herring Gull  X
Great Black-backed Gull  X
Chimney Swift  1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Belted Kingfisher  1
Eastern Kingbird  1
Tree Swallow  1000
Barn Swallow  1
Black-capped Chickadee  2
American Robin  15
European Starling  10
Cedar Waxwing  4

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31835121

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th

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