Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US
May 30, 2021 7:00 AM – 9:20 AM
Protocol: Traveling
7.0 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Trip-Leader Nickilas Paulson-Plum Island Canoe/Kayak no participants, cold and windy to start for kayak part, then cold, windy, foggy, and drizzly along Island.
69 species
Canada Goose  35
Mute Swan  2
Gadwall  3
Mallard  8
Common Eider  1
Wild Turkey  3
Mourning Dove  4
Black-bellied Plover  1
Semipalmated Plover  2
Killdeer  1
Least Sandpiper  1    Via kayak
White-rumped Sandpiper  1    Via Kayak
Greater Yellowlegs  3
Willet (Eastern)  8
Ring-billed Gull  5
Herring Gull  40
Great Black-backed Gull  125
Least Tern  3
Black Tern  1    Flying just over the waves at lot 1
Common Tern  4
Common Loon  1
Double-crested Cormorant  8
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  3
Great Egret  9
Osprey (carolinensis)  2
Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  1
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher  1
Willow Flycatcher  2
Least Flycatcher  1
Eastern Kingbird  2
Warbling Vireo (Eastern)  1
Red-eyed Vireo  2
Blue Jay  4
American Crow  2
Common Raven  1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  1
Purple Martin  1
Tree Swallow  5
Barn Swallow (American)  2
House Wren (Northern)  2
European Starling  6
Gray Catbird  8
Northern Mockingbird  1
Swainson’s Thrush (Olive-backed)  1
American Robin  7
House Sparrow  1
Purple Finch  2
American Goldfinch  5
Chipping Sparrow  1
Seaside Sparrow  2    Via kayak
Saltmarsh Sparrow  13    Most via kayak
Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  2
Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  12
Eastern Towhee  7
Bobolink  2
Eastern Meadowlark (Eastern)  1
Baltimore Oriole  5
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  18
Brown-headed Cowbird  3
Common Grackle (Bronzed)  8
Blue-winged Warbler  1
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  2
American Redstart  8
Yellow Warbler (Northern)  4
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  1
Canada Warbler  1
Northern Cardinal  2
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