Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US

Aug 24, 2020 5:25 PM – 8:08 PM

Protocol: Traveling

5.5 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Led BBC walk.  Hi tide dropping.  A rumble of thunder to start then clear, calm and sunny.  Hellcat to SIP and back to Hellcat.

31 species

Canada Goose  7

Mallard  16

American Black Duck  6

Wild Turkey  1

Mourning Dove  2

Eastern Whip-poor-will  1    Calling loudly and often at the Hellcat parking lot.

Black-bellied Plover  46

Semipalmated Plover  350

Least Sandpiper  6

White-rumped Sandpiper  1

Semipalmated Sandpiper  250

Short-billed Dowitcher  31

Long-billed Dowitcher  1

Spotted Sandpiper  1

Greater Yellowlegs  37

Herring Gull  2

Double-crested Cormorant  5

Least Bittern  1    SIP looking from trail.

Great Blue Heron  1

Great Egret  27

Snowy Egret  19

Black-crowned Night-Heron  7

Osprey  2

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Peregrine Falcon  1

American Crow  1

Tree Swallow  10000    Quite a show from Hellcat.  Tree swallows streaming off of Plum Island sound forming huge flocks over the North Pool.

Gray Catbird  2

Cedar Waxwing  3

Song Sparrow  1

Red-winged Blackbird  4

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S72836514