Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Sep 24, 2017 8:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
5.0 mile(s)
Comments:     BBC Field trip led by Neil Hayward.
Many Monarch butterflies, plus a Viceroy and Painted Lady.
53 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  1
American Wigeon  1
Mallard  6
American Black Duck  25
Northern Pintail  4
Green-winged Teal  15
Double-crested Cormorant  8
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  7
Snowy Egret  2
Turkey Vulture  1
Osprey  1
Northern Harrier  3
Black-bellied Plover  35
Semipalmated Plover  10
Killdeer  1
Red Knot  1
Stilt Sandpiper  2
Sanderling  20
Dunlin  35
Least Sandpiper  1
Semipalmated Sandpiper  6
Short-billed Dowitcher  4
Long-billed Dowitcher  2
Greater Yellowlegs  2
Lesser Yellowlegs  6
Ring-billed Gull  1
Herring Gull  3
Great Black-backed Gull  2
Mourning Dove  2
Belted Kingfisher  1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1
Downy Woodpecker  2
Yellow-throated Vireo  1
Blue-headed Vireo  1
Blue Jay  5
American Crow  2
Tree Swallow  4
Black-capped Chickadee  6
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
American Robin  4
Gray Catbird  4
Brown Thrasher  3
Northern Mockingbird  3
European Starling  15
Blackpoll Warbler  4
Palm Warbler  1
Palm Warbler (Western)  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  2
Savannah Sparrow  14
Song Sparrow  4
Eastern Towhee  8
Scarlet Tanager  1
Purple Finch  2

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S39411728

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