Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US

Sep 11, 2021 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Protocol: Traveling

6.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk: Plum Island: Leader Nick Paulson: warm and slightly breezy, clear day, slow migration day.

54 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  25

Mute Swan  6

Mallard  10

American Black Duck  10

Green-winged Teal (American)  20

Pied-billed Grebe  1

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  12

Mourning Dove  1

Chimney Swift  2

Killdeer  2

Whimbrel  1

Sanderling  1

Least Sandpiper  6

White-rumped Sandpiper  1

Semipalmated Sandpiper  4

peep sp.  10

Greater Yellowlegs  8

Lesser Yellowlegs  2

Ring-billed Gull  4

Herring Gull  15

Great Black-backed Gull  3

Double-crested Cormorant  20

Great Blue Heron  4

Great Egret  25

Snowy Egret  3

Turkey Vulture  2

Osprey (carolinensis)  5

Northern Harrier  3

Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  2

Downy Woodpecker  1

Peregrine Falcon  1

Red-eyed Vireo  1

Blue Jay  4

American Crow  1

Black-capped Chickadee  14

Tree Swallow  2000

Barn Swallow  4

Marsh Wren  2

Carolina Wren  1

Gray Catbird  9

Northern Mockingbird  1

American Robin  3

Cedar Waxwing  15

House Finch  1

Purple Finch (Eastern)  1

American Goldfinch  1

Saltmarsh Sparrow  1

Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  2

Song Sparrow  4

Eastern Towhee  8

Magnolia Warbler  1

Palm Warbler  1

Pine Warbler  1

Prairie Warbler  1

warbler sp. (Parulidae sp.)  2    Probably a Nashville for first. Also a flyby larger warbler where the lemony yellow undertail coverts extend almost to end of tail, only saw from the side and below, likely Connecticut Warbler, at dunes spur near overlook.

Northern Cardinal  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S94708997