Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US
09-Sep-2023 09:20 – 13:00
Protocol: Traveling
6.0 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Brookline Bird Club Walk- Plum Island- leader Nick Paulson- 6 participants. Weather was cloudy to start, a few spots of drizzle. Muggy and warming during the trip, low wind. Some newer birders, so spent time sorting through the ID of the shorebirds and went down the island at a relaxed pace.
53 species (+4 other taxa)
Canada Goose 20
Mute Swan 1
Mallard 25
American Black Duck 6
Green-winged Teal (American) 3
Mourning Dove 24
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Black-bellied Plover 1
American Golden-Plover 6 Group flew over in front of guard shack as I entered the refuge.
Semipalmated Plover 30
Whimbrel 4 First 1 then 3 flew past pannes.
Stilt Sandpiper 2
Sanderling 8
Least Sandpiper 2
White-rumped Sandpiper 4
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper 50
Short-billed Dowitcher 3
Long-billed Dowitcher 2
Short-billed/Long-billed Dowitcher 6
Greater Yellowlegs 50
Lesser Yellowlegs 8
Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs 25
shorebird sp. 15
Ring-billed Gull 3
Herring Gull (American) 10
Double-crested Cormorant 9
Great Blue Heron (Great Blue) 3
Great Egret 80
Snowy Egret 4
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
Osprey (carolinensis) 2
Northern Harrier 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) 1
Peregrine Falcon (North American) 1
Eastern Phoebe 2
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 12
Black-capped Chickadee 6
Purple Martin 1 Female/juvenile. Flying over dunes by pannes pull off.
Tree Swallow 400
Barn Swallow (American) 6
Gray Catbird 14
Northern Mockingbird 2
American Robin 20
Cedar Waxwing 2
American Pipit 1 Flew out of the pannes calling, heading east towards beach.
House Finch 1
American Goldfinch 8
Savannah Sparrow (Savannah) 8
Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica) 3
Eastern Towhee 4
Common Grackle (Bronzed) 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 6
new world warbler sp. 3
Northern Cardinal 3
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