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

Plum Island (please use more refined location), Essex, Massachusetts, US

May 4, 2024 6:43 AM – 1:08 PM

Protocol: Traveling

8.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    My Brookline Bird Club Birding By Bike Trip.

Started the trip at 630AM at Parking Lot 1 and biked to Hellcat and back. We ended the trip at 100PM .

Weather: Mostly to partly sunny sky, temps hovered around 50°F, little to no wind.

62 species

Canada Goose  9

Mute Swan  3

Gadwall  2

Mallard  2

Green-winged Teal  2

Long-tailed Duck  2

Wild Turkey  1

Mourning Dove  9

Killdeer  12    One on a nest.

Semipalmated Plover  1

Lesser Yellowlegs  3

Willet  15    Seen other birders. Noted two copulating.

Greater Yellowlegs  2

Dunlin  14

Least Sandpiper  1

Great Black-backed Gull  1

Common Loon  1

Double-crested Cormorant  26

American Bittern  1

Snowy Egret  1

Great Egret  1

Turkey Vulture  5

Osprey  3

Downy Woodpecker  1

Northern Flicker  4

Great Crested Flycatcher  2

Eastern Kingbird  5

Blue-headed Vireo  1

Blue Jay  3

American Crow  4

Black-capped Chickadee  3

Tree Swallow  27

Purple Martin  8

Barn Swallow  1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1

House Wren  1

Marsh Wren  1

Gray Catbird  16

Brown Thrasher  4    Two copulating.

Northern Mockingbird  11

American Robin  6

House Finch  5

Purple Finch  3

American Goldfinch  16

Field Sparrow  4

White-throated Sparrow  8

Savannah Sparrow  2

Song Sparrow  23

Eastern Towhee  6

Baltimore Oriole  1

Red-winged Blackbird  9

Brown-headed Cowbird  3

Common Grackle  9

Black-and-white Warbler  1

Nashville Warbler  1

Common Yellowthroat  2

Northern Parula  1

Yellow Warbler  1

Black-throated Blue Warbler  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler  7

Black-throated Green Warbler  1

Northern Cardinal  3

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S172310208

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