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

Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US

Jun 10, 2025 7:00 AM – 11:15 AM

Protocol: Traveling

8.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Foggy to overcast, E wind 5mph, 55 degrees to start.

54 species

Canada Goose  20

Mute Swan  6

Gadwall  7

Mallard  5

Mourning Dove  1

Black-necked Stilt  2    Continuing birds at the main salt panne.

Killdeer  3

Piping Plover  2

Hudsonian Godwit  1    Brief, but definitive looks at his large shorebird with a long, slightly upturned bi-colored bill.  Southern end of the main salt panne.  Thanks to Steve for the heads-up.  Another birder got photos.

Willet  20

White-rumped Sandpiper  4

Semipalmated Sandpiper  12

American Herring Gull  25

Great Black-backed Gull  18

Least Tern  35

Common Tern  1

Double-crested Cormorant  150    Most on the beach by Emerson Rocks

Snowy Egret  2

Great Egret  4

Osprey  1

Eastern Wood-Pewee  1

Alder Flycatcher  1

Willow Flycatcher  3

Great Crested Flycatcher  2

Eastern Kingbird  4

Blue Jay  2

American Crow  1

Black-capped Chickadee  1

Tree Swallow  10

Purple Martin  14

Barn Swallow  5

Marsh Wren  2

European Starling  4

Gray Catbird  26

Brown Thrasher  1

Northern Mockingbird  2

American Robin  3

Cedar Waxwing  8

Purple Finch  2

American Goldfinch  6

Saltmarsh Sparrow  3

Song Sparrow  4

Swamp Sparrow  2

Eastern Towhee  6

Bobolink  3

Orchard Oriole  2

Baltimore Oriole  3

Red-winged Blackbird  7

Brown-headed Cowbird  3

Common Grackle  6

Common Yellowthroat  6

American Redstart  9

Yellow Warbler  7

Northern Cardinal  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S249377592

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