Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US

18-Sep-2022 08:05 – 11:56

Protocol: Traveling

7.133 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Trip Field Trip led by Neil Hayward.

46 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  5

Mute Swan  3

Gadwall  12

Mallard  9

American Black Duck  12

Green-winged Teal  25

Black-bellied Plover  5

American Golden-Plover  1

Semipalmated Plover  5

Stilt Sandpiper  2    Bill Forward pool from blind. Flushed by Peregrine. Came back on my own and refound in the same spot. Long, decurved bill with dowitcher feeding motion.

Dunlin  7

Least Sandpiper  2

White-rumped Sandpiper  12

Semipalmated Sandpiper  20

Short-billed Dowitcher  2    Juveniles

Long-billed Dowitcher  4    From dike.

Greater Yellowlegs  56

Lesser Yellowlegs  1

Herring Gull  2

Double-crested Cormorant  30

Great Blue Heron  4

Great Egret  33

Snowy Egret  28

Osprey  1

Northern Harrier  1

Accipiter sp.  1

Northern Flicker  4

Merlin  1    Very dark.

Peregrine Falcon  1

Eastern Phoebe  1

Blue Jay  3

Black-capped Chickadee  3

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  1

Tree Swallow  20

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1

Gray Catbird  11

Brown Thrasher  2

American Robin  22

Cedar Waxwing  12

American Goldfinch  1

Song Sparrow  3

Eastern Towhee  1

Baltimore Oriole  1

Tennessee Warbler  1    Yellowish wash over head and green olive back. Strongish supercilium. Noticeable bright white underparks (although some yellow on breast and flanks) and white undertail coverts. Silent. On road south of Goodno Crossing.

Northern Parula  1

Blackpoll Warbler  2

Northern Cardinal  3

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S119077397