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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