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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ANNUAL REPORT 2006

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ANNUAL REPORT 2004

2004 Statistical and Year-End Report By Bob Stymiest, Club Statistician During 2004, the Brookline Bird Club listed 311 species of birds on 243 reported trips, 17 species more than last year. To put this in

ANNUAL REPORT 2003

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ANNUAL REPORT 2002

2002 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT by Robert H. Styrneist, Statistician   During 2002, the Brookline Bird Club listed 307 species of birds on 249 reported trips, five more than last year. A total of

ANNUAL REPORT 2008

2008 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician During 2008, the Brookline Bird Club listed 306 species of birds on 190 reported trips, three species less than last year. A total

ANNUAL REPORT 2007

2007 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 2007, the Brookline Bird Club listed 309 species of birds on 213 reported trips, one species more than last year. A total

ANNUAL REPORT 2006

2006 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 2006, the Brookline Bird Club listed 306 species of birds on 208 reported trips, one species more than last year. A total

ANNUAL REPORT 2004

2004 Statistical and Year-End Report By Bob Stymiest, Club Statistician During 2004, the Brookline Bird Club listed 311 species of birds on 243 reported trips, 17 species more than last year. To put this in

ANNUAL REPORT 2003

2003 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 2003, the Brookline Bird Club listed 294 species of birds on 242 reported trips, 13 species fewer than last year. A total

ANNUAL REPORT 2002

2002 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT by Robert H. Styrneist, Statistician   During 2002, the Brookline Bird Club listed 307 species of birds on 249 reported trips, five more than last year. A total of

ANNUAL REPORT 2008

2008 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician During 2008, the Brookline Bird Club listed 306 species of birds on 190 reported trips, three species less than last year. A total

ANNUAL REPORT 2007

2007 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 2007, the Brookline Bird Club listed 309 species of birds on 213 reported trips, one species more than last year. A total

ANNUAL REPORT 2006

2006 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 2006, the Brookline Bird Club listed 306 species of birds on 208 reported trips, one species more than last year. A total

ANNUAL REPORT 2004

2004 Statistical and Year-End Report By Bob Stymiest, Club Statistician During 2004, the Brookline Bird Club listed 311 species of birds on 243 reported trips, 17 species more than last year. To put this in

ANNUAL REPORT 2003

2003 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 2003, the Brookline Bird Club listed 294 species of birds on 242 reported trips, 13 species fewer than last year. A total

ANNUAL REPORT 2002

2002 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT by Robert H. Styrneist, Statistician   During 2002, the Brookline Bird Club listed 307 species of birds on 249 reported trips, five more than last year. A total of

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