Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Oct 18, 2025 7:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
6.0 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Brookline Bird Club Walk- Hellcat at Parker River NWR. Leader Nick Paulson. Cold start but low wind. Warming as the day went. Dike was closed and duck hunting along dike. So we scanned from the dike and hiked all of the Hellcat trails. After we checked the Pines, Lot 5 and the Main Pannes.
63 species (+2 other taxa)
Canada Goose 25
Gadwall 7
American Wigeon 3
Mallard 4
American Black Duck 50
Northern Pintail 20
Green-winged Teal (American) 125
Greater Scaup 1
Surf Scoter 2
White-winged Scoter 100
Black Scoter 100
scoter sp. 250
Mourning Dove 1
Black-bellied Plover 17
Semipalmated Plover 30
Long-billed Dowitcher 2 Across main pannes
American Woodcock 1 Flushed out from under boardwalk.
Greater Yellowlegs 28
Sanderling 40
Dunlin 100
White-rumped Sandpiper 5
Semipalmated Sandpiper 10
Razorbill 1 Lot 5
Ring-billed Gull 50
American Herring Gull 200
Great Black-backed Gull 5
gull sp. 500
Red-throated Loon 5
Common Loon 2
Northern Gannet 18
Double-crested Cormorant 180
Snowy Egret 2
Great Egret 6
Great Blue Heron (Great Blue) 4
Northern Harrier 1
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) 4
Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern) 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Blue-headed Vireo 1 Hellcat
Blue Jay 20
American Crow 2
Common Raven 1
Black-capped Chickadee 10
Tree Swallow 8
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 5
Red-breasted Nuthatch 16
Northern Mockingbird 1
Hermit Thrush 1
American Robin 75
Cedar Waxwing 4
American Pipit 2
House Finch 10
American Goldfinch 5
White-throated Sparrow 25
Savannah Sparrow (Savannah) 1
Song Sparrow 24
Eastern Towhee 1
Eastern Meadowlark 1 Heard from hellcat dike.
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) 4
Nashville Warbler 1 Flew over at hellcat parking lot.
Palm Warbler (Western) 1 Hellcat by tower.
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 40
Northern Cardinal 4
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S280339477
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