Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US
May 14, 2018 6:15 AM – 11:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
13.0 mile(s)
Comments:     Led BBC walk.  Overcast, 58 degrees to start. Kind of quiet.
68 species

Brant  23     Beach from lot 1
Canada Goose  7     BFP
Gadwall  2
Mallard  1
Common Eider  1     Sandy Pt.
Black Scoter  34     From lot1
Long-tailed Duck  2     From lot1
Wild Turkey  2
Red-necked Grebe  1     From lot1
Double-crested Cormorant  11
Great Egret  9
Snowy Egret  3
Osprey  3
Northern Harrier  1     Cross Farm Hill.
Black-bellied Plover  14     Sandy Pt.
Semipalmated Plover  3     Sandy Pt.
Piping Plover  5     Sandy Py. and from lot 1
Killdeer  8
Ruddy Turnstone  1     Sandy Pt.
Semipalmated Sandpiper  1     Sandy Pt.
Greater Yellowlegs  2
Willet  16
Lesser Yellowlegs  2
Ring-billed Gull  4
Herring Gull  7
Common Tern  9
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  3
Mourning Dove  2
Downy Woodpecker  1
Least Flycatcher  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  2
Eastern Kingbird  4
Warbling Vireo  3
Blue Jay  2
American Crow  1
Common Raven  1
Tree Swallow  7
Barn Swallow  2
Black-capped Chickadee  2
Marsh Wren  2
American Robin  5
Gray Catbird  15
Brown Thrasher  2
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  4
Common Yellowthroat  9
American Redstart  4
Northern Parula  3
Magnolia Warbler  2
Yellow Warbler  16
Chestnut-sided Warbler  2
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Black-throated Blue Warbler  1
Pine Warbler  1
Wilson’s Warbler  1
Field Sparrow  2
Savannah Sparrow  3
Song Sparrow  4
Eastern Towhee  16
Northern Cardinal  2
Bobolink  11     Wardens Field and Cross Farm Hill.
Orchard Oriole  3
Baltimore Oriole  6
Red-winged Blackbird  5
Brown-headed Cowbird  3
Common Grackle  7
Purple Finch (Eastern)  4
American Goldfinch  6

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S45939706

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