Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US
May 17, 2021 6:50 AM – 10:40 AM
Protocol: Traveling
6.5 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Beautiful, sunny day, 58 degrees to start. Low tide at 10:24. Stops at the Pannes, a couple of roadside stops, the Wardens, and Hellcat.
71 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose 4
Gadwall 2
Mallard 5
American Black Duck 4
Wild Turkey 1
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 1
Mourning Dove 4
Killdeer 7
Least Sandpiper 14
Semipalmated Sandpiper 3
Short-billed Dowitcher 4
Greater Yellowlegs 8
Willet 12
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
Ring-billed Gull 8
Herring Gull 13
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Least Tern 8
Common Tern 4
Double-crested Cormorant 16
Great Egret 8
Snowy Egret 1
Osprey 2
Willow Flycatcher 1 Heard
Least Flycatcher 2
Great Crested Flycatcher 4
Eastern Kingbird 8
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Warbling Vireo 1
Blue Jay 27 Two groups, migrating.
American Crow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 5
Tufted Titmouse 3 This is a very uncommon bird for me here and to see three is amazing.
Purple Martin 14
Tree Swallow 9
Barn Swallow 4
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2
Gray Catbird 14
Brown Thrasher 2
Northern Mockingbird 2
Swainson’s Thrush 1 Roadside just north of the Wardens.
American Robin 4
Cedar Waxwing 4
House Sparrow 3
House Finch 2
Purple Finch 2
American Goldfinch 4
Chipping Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 1 Heard.
Song Sparrow 6
Eastern Towhee 12
Bobolink 8
Orchard Oriole 2
Baltimore Oriole 7
Red-winged Blackbird 16
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
Common Grackle 6
Common Grackle (Bronzed) 4
Northern Waterthrush 1
Black-and-white Warbler 2
Tennessee Warbler 1 Heard distinctive, three part “tip tip tip tip teepit teepit teepit teepit ti ti ti ti ti ti ti” song twice, high up in the big Oaks along Hellcat boardwalk right near the parking lot where the trail goes left to the dike.
Nashville Warbler 3
Common Yellowthroat 7
American Redstart 5
Northern Parula 7
Blackburnian Warbler 3
Yellow Warbler 11
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1
Black-throated Green Warbler 3
Wilson’s Warbler 1 In the thicket behind the Hellcat bathrooms.
Northern Cardinal 2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S88404722