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

Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Sep 24, 2019 7:27 AM – 12:17 PM
Protocol: Traveling
8.0 mile(s)
Comments:    Mostly sunny and 65-79 degrees with winds varying from WSW 8 mph to West 10 mph.  With Brookline Bird Club walk led by Dave Williams.  Stops at Lot 1 Boat Ramp, main pans, Stage Island Pool Trail toward Ipswich Bluffs,Sandy Point , Lot 7 Emerson Rocks, Bill Forward Blind, Hellcat Dike, and North Pool Overlook.
Also saw Mola Mola and Harbor Seal at Lot 7 ocean platform.
59 species (+2 other taxa)
Canada Goose  24
Blue-winged Teal  6
Northern Shoveler  2    Females at Bill Forward Blind
Gadwall  2
American Wigeon  3    North Pool Overlook
Mallard  31
American Black Duck  22
Northern Pintail  4    BFP from blind
Green-winged Teal  42
Common Eider  5
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  3    As I arrived, on a rooftop near entrence gate.
Mourning Dove  2
Black-bellied Plover  6
Semipalmated Plover  259
Killdeer  1
Ruddy Turnstone  1    Sandy Point
Stilt Sandpiper  2
Sanderling  12
Dunlin  13
Least Sandpiper  3
White-rumped Sandpiper  1
Buff-breasted Sandpiper  1    Seen from Bill Forward Blind
Pectoral Sandpiper  2    1 at Bill Forward Blind and 1 at North Pool Overlook
Semipalmated Sandpiper  42
peep sp.  80
Short-billed Dowitcher  28
Spotted Sandpiper  1    Bill Forward Pool
Greater Yellowlegs  12
Lesser Yellowlegs  3
Ring-billed Gull  35
Herring Gull  64
Great Black-backed Gull  22
Black Skimmer  1    Continuing at Sandy Point.  Resting with Gulls. Distinctive black and white color with black and orange Bill and lower mandible longer than the top.
Common Loon  2    Emerson Rocks
Double-crested Cormorant  17
Great Blue Heron  4
Great Egret  32
Snowy Egret  8    4 immature at Stage Island Pool and 4 adults at North Pool Overlook
Turkey Vulture  5
Osprey  1    Sitting on pole at Pines trail
Northern Harrier  1
Merlin  1
Peregrine Falcon  2
Eastern Phoebe  1
Blue Jay  1
American Crow  4
Black-capped Chickadee  1
Tree Swallow  10
Barn Swallow  4
European Starling  8
Gray Catbird  4
Brown Thrasher  1
Northern Mockingbird  6
American Robin  8
Cedar Waxwing  2
Saltmarsh Sparrow  4    Lot 1 Boat Ramp area
Nelson’s/Saltmarsh Sparrow (Sharp-tailed Sparrow)  1
Savannah Sparrow  3
Song Sparrow  8
Eastern Towhee  5
Yellow Warbler  1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S60116457

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