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
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S89358074

And the Winner Is…

And the Winner Is... Congratulations to Kate McHugh, who has won the Migration Madness Membership Drive! Kate will receive their choice of a pair of binoculars or two tickets for one of our summer water

And the Winner Is…

And the Winner Is... Congratulations to Kate McHugh, who has won the Migration Madness Membership Drive! Kate will receive their choice of a pair of binoculars or two tickets for one of our summer water

And the Winner Is…

And the Winner Is... Congratulations to Kate McHugh, who has won the Migration Madness Membership Drive! Kate will receive their choice of a pair of binoculars or two tickets for one of our summer water

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