Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US

04-Nov-2023 09:00 – 14:00

Protocol: Traveling

8.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk – Plum Island and Vicinity – Leaders: Linda Ferraresso and Nick Paulson – 24 participants. A little chilly to start and cloudy, but turned into a pleasant day.  Still some shorebirds and passerines around but ducks were the highlight as they were prevalent in the ocean and pools.

67 species (+4 other taxa)

Brant (Atlantic)  20

Canada Goose  65

Mute Swan  4

Northern Shoveler  4    Stage

Gadwall  2    Wardens

Mallard  10

American Black Duck  200

Northern Pintail  120

Green-winged Teal (American)  200

Greater Scaup  7

Greater/Lesser Scaup  3

Common Eider  8

Surf Scoter  400

White-winged Scoter  15

Black Scoter  300

scoter sp.  20

Long-tailed Duck  12

Bufflehead  14

Red-breasted Merganser  4

Ruddy Duck  15

Pied-billed Grebe  4

Horned Grebe  2

Mourning Dove  4

Common Gallinule  1    Long continuing at Hellcat.

American Coot (Red-shielded)  2

Black-bellied Plover  6

Long-billed Dowitcher  12    Flock at pannes.

Greater Yellowlegs  50

Lesser/Greater Yellowlegs  1

Sanderling  25

Dunlin  120

White-rumped Sandpiper  2    Pannes

Ring-billed Gull  5

Herring Gull (American)  30

Great Black-backed Gull  6

Red-throated Loon  12

Common Loon  20

Northern Gannet  4

Double-crested Cormorant  400

Great Egret  2

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  1

Northern Harrier  7

Sharp-shinned Hawk (Northern)  1

Cooper’s Hawk  3

Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  5

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1    Hellcat

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1

Eastern Phoebe  1    Hellcat

Blue Jay  2    Lot 1

American Crow  6

Common Raven  1    Pannes

Black-capped Chickadee  9

Horned Lark  1    Lot 1

Golden-crowned Kinglet  3

European Starling  7

Gray Catbird  1    Lot 1

Northern Mockingbird  2

American Robin  24

House Sparrow  3    Lot 1

American Pipit  20    Lot 1

House Finch  3

American Goldfinch  2

Snow Bunting  4    Lot 1

White-throated Sparrow  1

Savannah Sparrow  2

Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  4

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  16

Swamp Sparrow  1

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  10

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  8

Northern Cardinal  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S153853495