Plum Island (please use more refined location), Essex, Massachusetts, US
Jun 22, 2024 7:16 AM – 12:42 PM
Protocol: Traveling
0.09 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: My Brookline Bird Club Summer Solstice Saunter Day List.
We started the trip at 7AM at Plum Island Parking Lot #1 and birded our way south to Hellcat, where we ended the trip at noon.
Weather: 65°F, overcast, breezy. Fantastic morning to be out birding!
60 species
Canada Goose 31
Mute Swan 1
Gadwall 8
Mallard 5
American Black Duck 4
Mourning Dove 15
Killdeer 15
Lesser Yellowlegs 2
Willet 15
Greater Yellowlegs 5
Dunlin 1 Rufus back, black under belly, curved bill seen by everyone on the trip.
Least Sandpiper 5
Herring Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Least Tern 6
Common Tern 13
Double-crested Cormorant 11
American Bittern 1
Black-crowned Night Heron 1
Snowy Egret 5
Great Egret 14
Great Blue Heron 1
Glossy Ibis 2
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 6
Bald Eagle 2
Northern Flicker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 3
Willow Flycatcher 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
Eastern Kingbird 9
Blue Jay 2
Black-capped Chickadee 4
Tree Swallow 11
Purple Martin 22
Barn Swallow 3
House Wren 1
Marsh Wren 17
Gray Catbird 29
Brown Thrasher 1
Northern Mockingbird 8
American Robin 6
Cedar Waxwing 11
House Sparrow 12
Purple Finch 5
American Goldfinch 12
Field Sparrow 2
Saltmarsh Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 10
Swamp Sparrow 2
Eastern Towhee 8
Bobolink 3
Orchard Oriole 2
Baltimore Oriole 1
Red-winged Blackbird 36
Common Grackle 42
Common Yellowthroat 10
American Redstart 13
Yellow Warbler 9
Northern Cardinal 1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S185271911
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