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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

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

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