Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Aug 31, 2025 9:15 AM – 2:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
6.0 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Brookline Bird Club Walk – Plum Island – Leader Nick Paulson. 9 participants. Warm, sunny, slight breeze. A little bit of a slow day for the refuge, tons of Tree Swallows.
54 species (+2 other taxa)
Gadwall 4
Green-winged Teal (American) 4
Common Eider (Dresser’s) 10
White-winged Scoter 2
Mourning Dove 1
Semipalmated Plover 25
Short-billed Dowitcher 8
Short-billed/Long-billed Dowitcher 1 Possibly Long-billed
Lesser Yellowlegs 12
Greater Yellowlegs 10
Stilt Sandpiper 1
Sanderling 5
White-rumped Sandpiper 10
Least Sandpiper 40
Semipalmated Sandpiper 30
Laughing Gull 1
Ring-billed Gull 5
American Herring Gull 30
Great Black-backed Gull 5
Common Tern 25
Sterna sp. 10 One possible Forster’s
Double-crested Cormorant 80
Snowy Egret 4
Great Egret 20
Great Blue Heron (Great Blue) 5
Turkey Vulture 2
Osprey (American) 8
Northern Harrier 1
Bald Eagle 1
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) 1
Merlin (Taiga) 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Eastern Kingbird 2
Blue Jay 3
American Crow 2
Common Raven 2
Black-capped Chickadee 5
Tree Swallow 3000
Barn Swallow (American) 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
European Starling 200
Gray Catbird 4
Cedar Waxwing 12
American Pipit 1 Flyover at the salt pannes heading S. Slender bodied, tawny below, white outer tail feathers.
Purple Finch 1
American Goldfinch 8
Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica) 4
Eastern Towhee 3
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) 3
Common Grackle (Bronzed) 1
Common Yellowthroat 1
American Redstart 1
Blackburnian Warbler 1
Yellow Warbler (Northern) 1
Black-throated Green Warbler 2
Northern Cardinal 2
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S270937836
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