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