Brookline Bird Club – America’s most active bird club!

Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US
May 15, 2017 6:20 AM – 10:25 AM
Protocol: Traveling
13.0 mile(s)
Comments:     Led BBC walk.  No one showed up.  47 degrees, intermittent to light rain, wind NE 10-20 made it very cold.  Last vestiges of the Nor’easter.  Hypothermia today, heat stroke Thursday.
57 species

Canada Goose  9
Gadwall  4
American Black Duck  3
Mallard  5
Common Eider  9
White-winged Scoter  11
Black Scoter  5
Long-tailed Duck  17
Red-throated Loon  1
Northern Gannet  3
Double-crested Cormorant  5
Great Egret  4
Snowy Egret  2
Osprey  2
Northern Harrier  1
Bald Eagle  1     The eagle was trying to hijack a fish from an Osprey.  No luck.
Black-bellied Plover  2     Fly-overs calling.
Piping Plover  4
Killdeer  10
Purple Sandpiper  1
Least Sandpiper  2
White-rumped Sandpiper  12
Greater Yellowlegs  3
Willet  15
Lesser Yellowlegs  5
Ring-billed Gull  1
Herring Gull  12
Great Black-backed Gull  7
Least Tern  2
Common Tern  45     Big flock feeding in the surf at parking lot 1.
Arctic Tern  10     Bar Head.  Actively feeding close to shore.  Well seen.  Probably more.  This number is not unusual after a Nor’easter.
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  3
Mourning Dove  2
Blue Jay  2
Tree Swallow  3
Black-capped Chickadee  2
Red-breasted Nuthatch  2
Marsh Wren  1
American Robin  7
Gray Catbird  8
Brown Thrasher  2
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  3
Common Yellowthroat  6
American Redstart  2
Yellow Warbler  2
Savannah Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow  2
Eastern Towhee  9
Northern Cardinal  3
Bobolink  1
Red-winged Blackbird  20
Common Grackle  15
Orchard Oriole  2
Baltimore Oriole  1
Purple Finch  6
American Goldfinch  4

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S36915990

ANNUAL REPORT 1995

THE 1995 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 1995, the Brookline Bird Club listed 298 species of birds on 202 reported trips. A total of 227 trips were scheduled, 70 all-day, 122

ANNUAL REPORT 1994

THE 1994 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 1994, the Brookline Bird Club listed 314 species of birds on 176 reported trips. A total of 198 trips were scheduled, 77 all-day, 92

ANNUAL REPORT 1993

THE 1993 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 1993, the Brookline Bird Club listed 290 species of birds on 152 reported trips. A total of 172 trips were scheduled, 66 all-day, 89

ANNUAL REPORT 1992

THE 1992 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist   A total of 273 species were listed by the Brookline Bird Club on 139 reported field trips during 1992. A total of 156 trips were scheduled:

ANNUAL REPORT 1995

THE 1995 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 1995, the Brookline Bird Club listed 298 species of birds on 202 reported trips. A total of 227 trips were scheduled, 70 all-day, 122

ANNUAL REPORT 1994

THE 1994 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 1994, the Brookline Bird Club listed 314 species of birds on 176 reported trips. A total of 198 trips were scheduled, 77 all-day, 92

ANNUAL REPORT 1993

THE 1993 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 1993, the Brookline Bird Club listed 290 species of birds on 152 reported trips. A total of 172 trips were scheduled, 66 all-day, 89

ANNUAL REPORT 1992

THE 1992 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist   A total of 273 species were listed by the Brookline Bird Club on 139 reported field trips during 1992. A total of 156 trips were scheduled:

ANNUAL REPORT 1995

THE 1995 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 1995, the Brookline Bird Club listed 298 species of birds on 202 reported trips. A total of 227 trips were scheduled, 70 all-day, 122

ANNUAL REPORT 1994

THE 1994 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 1994, the Brookline Bird Club listed 314 species of birds on 176 reported trips. A total of 198 trips were scheduled, 77 all-day, 92

ANNUAL REPORT 1993

THE 1993 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 1993, the Brookline Bird Club listed 290 species of birds on 152 reported trips. A total of 172 trips were scheduled, 66 all-day, 89

ANNUAL REPORT 1992

THE 1992 STATISTICAL REPORT by Robert H. Stymeist   A total of 273 species were listed by the Brookline Bird Club on 139 reported field trips during 1992. A total of 156 trips were scheduled:

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