Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US
11-Oct-2022 07:25 – 11:10
Protocol: Traveling
3.5 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Beautiful Fall day. Sunny, 38 degrees to start, 59 degrees to end. Led BBC walk. Stops at parking lt 1 beach Boardwalk, the main salt Pannes, roadside, the Wardens where we walked the dike for a bit, and Hellcat.
52 species (+2 other taxa)
Canada Goose 14
Mute Swan 1
Gadwall 4
Mallard 7
American Black Duck 12
Northern Pintail 1
Green-winged Teal 26
Common Eider 6
White-winged Scoter 9
Wild Turkey 2
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 26
Mourning Dove 2
Black-bellied Plover 2 Both heard in flight.
Killdeer 2
Hudsonian Godwit 1 In North Pool as seen from the Hellcat Dike.
White-rumped Sandpiper 4
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Greater Yellowlegs 34
shorebird sp. 60 A couple of distant flocks out over the Sound.
Herring Gull 6
Northern Gannet 12
Double-crested Cormorant 200 Three large migrating skiens.
Great Blue Heron 4
Great Egret 37
Osprey 1
Cooper’s Hawk 2
Bald Eagle 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Peregrine Falcon 2
Eastern Phoebe 1
Blue Jay 9
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Brown Creeper 1
European Starling 20
Gray Catbird 2
Northern Mockingbird 2
American Robin 3
Cedar Waxwing 1
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 1
Dark-eyed Junco 3
White-crowned Sparrow 1 Imm.
White-throated Sparrow 6
Song Sparrow 12
Swamp Sparrow 1
Eastern Towhee 2
sparrow sp. 2
Red-winged Blackbird 3
Common Yellowthroat 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 22
Northern Cardinal 1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S120563500