Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US

10-Sep-2022 09:15 – 13:15

Protocol: Traveling

5.6 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk – Plum Island. 9am-1pm. Leader Nick Paulson. 7 participants. Warm day, heavy surf off beach, foggy over ocean. Slow migrant day, but a few gems here and there. Lot one to Pines. Then quickly with 2 participants we went to get the Avocet.

61 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  2

Mute Swan  4

Blue-winged Teal  3

Gadwall  2

Mallard  16

Green-winged Teal  4

Mourning Dove  8

American Avocet  1    Continuing, sleeping with a mixed group of ducks and shorebirds at N end of Stage Island Pool.

Black-bellied Plover  1

Semipalmated Plover  20

Killdeer  2

Least Sandpiper  2

White-rumped Sandpiper  1

Semipalmated Sandpiper  25

peep sp.  1    Flew by from Bill Forward yo North Pool with Semipalmated Sandpipers. Call notes sounded like Western Sandpiper.

Long-billed Dowitcher  4

Greater Yellowlegs  12

Lesser Yellowlegs  2

Ring-billed Gull  1

Herring Gull (American)  8

Great Black-backed Gull  1

Double-crested Cormorant  60

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  8

Great Egret  20

Snowy Egret  6

Black-crowned Night-Heron  1    Juvenile, flyover at Hellcat dike.

Northern Harrier  1

Belted Kingfisher  1

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  3

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2

Peregrine Falcon  1

Philadelphia Vireo  1    Hellcat.

Red-eyed Vireo  3

Blue Jay  12

American Crow  4

Black-capped Chickadee  15

Tree Swallow  60

Barn Swallow (American)  3

Red-breasted Nuthatch  2

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  5

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (caerulea)  1

European Starling  1

Gray Catbird  25

Brown Thrasher  2

Northern Mockingbird  1

Eastern Bluebird  1

American Robin  30

Cedar Waxwing  6

House Finch  3

Purple Finch  2

American Goldfinch  4

Saltmarsh Sparrow  3

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  10

Swamp Sparrow  1

Eastern Towhee  13

Common Yellowthroat  3

Bay-breasted Warbler  1    Long views at Pines.

Yellow Warbler  1

Black-throated Blue Warbler  1    Pines. Male.

Wilson’s Warbler  1    Hellcat.

warbler sp. (Parulidae sp.)  3

Northern Cardinal  4

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S118759342