Brookline Bird Club – America’s most active bird club!

Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US

Oct 8, 2024 7:15 AM – 11:00 AM

Protocol: Traveling

4.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Sunny, 48 degrees to start.  9:40am low tide. Led BBC walk.

43 species

Canada Goose  17

Gadwall  11

American Wigeon  16

Mallard  12

American Black Duck  20

Green-winged Teal  2

Surf Scoter  20

Mourning Dove  2

Black-bellied Plover  8

Killdeer  1

Lesser Yellowlegs  1

Greater Yellowlegs  28

Dunlin  40

Ring-billed Gull  3

Herring Gull (American)  5

Great Black-backed Gull  2

Cory’s Shearwater  1

Northern Gannet  1

Double-crested Cormorant  12

Great Egret  4

Great Blue Heron  3

Turkey Vulture  5

Osprey  2

Northern Harrier  1

Downy Woodpecker  1

Eastern Phoebe  1

Blue Jay  5

American Crow  1

Black-capped Chickadee  6

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  3

Golden-crowned Kinglet  2

European Starling  2

Gray Catbird  1

Northern Mockingbird  3

Hermit Thrush  1

American Robin  4

House Sparrow  2

White-throated Sparrow  6

Savannah Sparrow  2

Song Sparrow  5

Eastern Towhee  2

Yellow-rumped Warbler  3

Northern Cardinal  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S198560526

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