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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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