Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US

May 13, 2019 6:30 AM – 11:17 AM

Comments:    Partly to mostly cloudy and 45-55 degrees. Winds ENE 6 mph to East 17 mph when we left. With Brookline Bird Club walk led by Dave Williams.

Stops at main pans, Wardens, Hellcat trail to Goodno Crossing, Pines Trail and stops along the Refuge road.

72 species

Canada Goose  6

Gadwall  3

Mallard  2

American Black Duck  3

Common Eider  7    Looking north from parking lot 1 platform.

Surf Scoter  1

White-winged Scoter  2

Black Scoter  100    Lot 1

Long-tailed Duck  50    Lot 1

Wild Turkey  2

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  4

Mourning Dove  2

Semipalmated Plover  5    In wrack line on beach Lot 1

Killdeer  6

Least Sandpiper  1

Greater Yellowlegs  3

Willet  21

Herring Gull  7

Common Tern  2    Flying over main pans

Common Loon  1    Lot 1

Double-crested Cormorant  9

Great Egret  6

Osprey  4

Red-bellied Woodpecker  1

Downy Woodpecker  1

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1

Least Flycatcher  2

Great Crested Flycatcher  1

Eastern Kingbird  3

White-eyed Vireo  1    Thanks to Tom Wetmore for alerting our group about the White Eyed Vireo seen along the road north of Goodno Crossing.  Yellow spectacles and wing bars. Some people heard it call.

Warbling Vireo  1

Blue Jay  4    Feeding each other

Purple Martin  5

Tree Swallow  49

Barn Swallow  3

Black-capped Chickadee  9

Red-breasted Nuthatch  1    Pines trail

Marsh Wren  1

Carolina Wren  1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1

American Robin  3

Gray Catbird  13

Northern Mockingbird  1

European Starling  8

House Finch  2

Purple Finch  3

American Goldfinch  8

Chipping Sparrow  3

Savannah Sparrow  2

Song Sparrow  7

Swamp Sparrow  1

Eastern Towhee  15

Bobolink  6

Baltimore Oriole  5

Red-winged Blackbird  19

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Common Grackle  28

Ovenbird  2

Northern Waterthrush  2

Black-and-white Warbler  5

Common Yellowthroat  7

American Redstart  2

Northern Parula  6

Yellow Warbler  9

Chestnut-sided Warbler  1

Black-throated Blue Warbler  1

Pine Warbler  1    Continuing males seen and heard singing at Pines Trail

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  1

Black-throated Green Warbler  1

Wilson’s Warbler  1    Heard singing multiple times near Hellcat restrooms

Northern Cardinal  3

House Sparrow  3

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S56282529