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

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