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