Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Nov 2, 2024 9:00 AM – 1:02 PM
Protocol: Traveling
6.239 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Brookline Bird Club Trip- Parker River NWR – Leader Nick Paulson – 6 Participants, cold start with a little wind, cloudy with very few random sprinkles. Quieter for passerines, but plenty of ducks.
71 species
Brant 12
Canada Goose 14
Mute Swan 4
Blue-winged Teal 2
Northern Shoveler 3
Gadwall 80
American Wigeon 50
Mallard 20
American Black Duck 250
Northern Pintail 100
Green-winged Teal (American) 100
Common Eider (Dresser’s) 3
Surf Scoter 2
White-winged Scoter 20
Black Scoter 600
Long-tailed Duck 14
Bufflehead 7
Hooded Merganser 24
Red-breasted Merganser 22
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 8
Mourning Dove 3
Black-bellied Plover 11
Semipalmated Plover 9
Long-billed Dowitcher 1
Greater Yellowlegs 40
Dunlin 100
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Bonaparte’s Gull 7
Ring-billed Gull 10
American Herring Gull 40
Great Black-backed Gull 15
Pied-billed Grebe 2
Horned Grebe 3
Red-throated Loon 2
Common Loon 22
Northern Gannet 30
Double-crested Cormorant 60
Great Egret 2
Great Blue Heron (Great Blue) 2
Northern Harrier 1
Bald Eagle 4
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) 2
Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern) 2
Peregrine Falcon (North American) 1
Red-eyed Vireo 1 Late, Hellcat area. Green back, light below, gray cap with black edge, black eyeline, long bill with vireo hook at end.
Blue Jay 10
American Crow 3
Black-capped Chickadee 16
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 3
Marsh Wren 1
European Starling 1
Northern Mockingbird 2
Hermit Thrush (faxoni/crymophilus) 1
American Robin 9
House Sparrow 4
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 4
Chipping Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 7
White-throated Sparrow 16
Savannah Sparrow (Savannah) 3
Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica) 12
Swamp Sparrow 3
Eastern Towhee 2
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) 1
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Palm Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 12
Northern Cardinal 4
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S201274364
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