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

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Black Birders’ Week 2021

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Everybody Loves Owls

With reports of too close encounters with owls, it's time to check in and think about birding ethics. It is NEVER okay to approach roosting owls closely. The Brookline Bird Club’s code of Ethics

Black Birders’ Week 2021

May 30-June 5 Organized by The BlackAFInSTEM Collective – a collective that “seeks to support, uplift, and amplify Black Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics professionals in natural resources and the environment through professional development, career

Everybody Loves Owls

With reports of too close encounters with owls, it's time to check in and think about birding ethics. It is NEVER okay to approach roosting owls closely. The Brookline Bird Club’s code of Ethics

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