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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

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

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