Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US

10-Oct-2023 07:30 – 11:00

Protocol: Traveling

3.65 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    45 degrees to start, partly sunny to mostly cloudy, high tide around 9:00am.  Stops at the boat ramp, the middens, the Wardens where we walked the dike to North Pool, and the Hellcat Boardwalk.  Led BBC walk.

51 species

Mute Swan  2

Mallard  7

American Black Duck  12

Northern Pintail  1

Green-winged Teal  6

Mourning Dove  3

Black-bellied Plover  7    Main salt Pannes.

Semipalmated Plover  27    Main salt Pannes

Killdeer  3    Main salt Pannes

Dunlin  110    Main salt Pannes

Semipalmated Sandpiper  9    Main salt Pannes

Long-billed Dowitcher  1    Main salt Pannes

Greater Yellowlegs  35    Main salt Pannes

Lesser Yellowlegs  2    Main salt Pannes

Ring-billed Gull  1

Herring Gull  2

Double-crested Cormorant  2

Great Blue Heron  1

Great Egret  2

Snowy Egret  3    Main salt Pannes

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Belted Kingfisher  1

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Downy Woodpecker  1

Blue Jay  14

American Crow  6

Common Raven  2

Black-capped Chickadee  2

Tufted Titmouse  1

Tree Swallow  2

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1

Golden-crowned Kinglet  8    Middens, Hellcat Boardwalk.

White-breasted Nuthatch  1

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1    Middens.

Marsh Wren  1    Boat ramp.

Carolina Wren  2

Gray Catbird  4

Northern Mockingbird  7

American Robin  16

House Finch  3

American Goldfinch  4

Field Sparrow  2

White-throated Sparrow  1

Saltmarsh Sparrow  7    2 boat ramp, at least 4 main salt panne.

Song Sparrow  19

Swamp Sparrow  1

Eastern Towhee  6

Red-winged Blackbird  2

Yellow-rumped Warbler  27

Black-throated Green Warbler  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S151918761