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
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