Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Aug 12, 2017 8:00 AM – 1:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
8.0 mile(s)
Comments:     BBC Trip covered Parker River NWR, Sabrina Hepburn leader plus about 10 participants
63 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  19
Gadwall  5
American Black Duck  4
Mallard  15
Green-winged Teal  6
Wild Turkey  5
Red-throated Loon  1     Only seen by one
Double-crested Cormorant  20
Least Bittern  2
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  6
Snowy Egret  10
Black-crowned Night-Heron  2
Glossy Ibis  1
Turkey Vulture  3
Osprey  4
Northern Harrier  1
Cooper’s Hawk  1
Black-bellied Plover  30
Semipalmated Plover  100
Killdeer  4
Sanderling  25
Least Sandpiper  40
White-rumped Sandpiper  30
Semipalmated Sandpiper  500
Short-billed Dowitcher  20
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Greater Yellowlegs  40
Willet  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  12
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  30
Great Black-backed Gull  4
Least Tern  7
Common Tern  4
Mourning Dove  3
American Kestrel  1
Peregrine Falcon  2
Eastern Phoebe  2
Great Crested Flycatcher  1
Eastern Kingbird  30
Red-eyed Vireo  2
American Crow  1
Purple Martin  4
Tree Swallow  2000
Barn Swallow  3
Black-capped Chickadee  5
Marsh Wren  3
American Robin  15
Gray Catbird  5
Northern Mockingbird  3     One recent fledge, with Peregrine
European Starling  200
Cedar Waxwing  25
Black-and-white Warbler  2
Common Yellowthroat  1
American Redstart  4
Setophaga sp.  1
Saltmarsh Sparrow  2
Song Sparrow  6
Eastern Towhee  3
Common Grackle  8
Purple Finch  1
American Goldfinch  3
House Sparrow  1

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S38612869

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