Brookline Bird Club – America’s most active bird club!

Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US

Sep 14, 2025 8:21 AM – 11:02 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.995 mile(s)

42 species

Canada Goose  11

Mallard  6

American Black Duck  2

Green-winged Teal  2

American Golden-Plover  1    Heard only

Semipalmated Plover  4

Lesser Yellowlegs  4

Greater Yellowlegs  5

Least Sandpiper  1

Ring-billed Gull  1

American Herring Gull  9

Pied-billed Grebe  1

Double-crested Cormorant  25

Tricolored Heron  1    NPO

Snowy Egret  1

Great Egret  2

Great Blue Heron  1

Osprey  1

Northern Harrier  1

Merlin  1

Least Flycatcher  1

Blue Jay  11

Black-capped Chickadee  4

Tree Swallow  46

Barn Swallow  12

Carolina Wren  1

European Starling  135

Gray Catbird  11

Brown Thrasher  1    Seen by two in the group

American Robin  12

Cedar Waxwing  9

Purple Finch  1    Heard only

Clay-colored Sparrow  1

Song Sparrow  6

Eastern Towhee  5

Red-winged Blackbird  2

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Northern Parula  1

Yellow Warbler  1

Blackpoll Warbler  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler  1

Wilson’s Warbler  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S273421686

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    For over 50 years, Soheil Zendeh has been monitoring shorebirds populations in Massachusetts and elsewhere. Over the past 35 years there have been drastic drops in most shorebird populations, particularly long distance migratory birds from the Arctic. He is the author of New England Shorebird Guide, a web-based field guide for New England shorebirders focused

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    East Boston - Belle Isle Parking Lot 1399 Bennington Street, Boston, MA, United States

    Join DCR park staff for a relaxed, one-mile bird walk through flat, easy terrain at this Massachusetts State Reservation and birding hot spot. At Belle Isle and at additional nearby locations— We’ll search for large groups of herons and egrets, and shorebird rarities. Participants are responsible for their own transportation between locations (by car or

  • Mount Auburn in Summer

    Mount Auburn Cemetery 536 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Mt. Auburn Cemetery is most heavily visited during migration season, but birding there in the summer allows you to see the large number of vibrant breeding birds without the crowds. Expect to see herons, vireos, flycatchers, and raptors, which may include some Great Horned Owls if we are lucky. Birders and nature-lovers of all skill

  • Belle Isle Marsh Reservation (Winthrop)

    Winthrop - Belle Isle March and Marine Ecology Park Banks Street, Winthrop, MA, United States

    Join us to observe resident birds and summer migrants in a unique urban habitat that is a favorite for many bird species, including uncommon and rare birds. Birders of all levels will enjoy this walk. The trails are (generally) flat and easy to walk. A water bottle and water proof clothing including a hat are

  • Forest Beach Conservation Area

    Chatham - Forest Beach 375-331 Forest Beach Rd, South Chatham, MA, United States

    Co-sponored with Cape Cod Bird Club. We’ll walk the marsh trail to where it meets Mill Creek and return via the beach, less than a mile round trip. We’ll then head towards the overlook where we’ll likely view herons, egrets, shorebirds, passerines, gulls, osprey and Northern Harrier. This is another area with mixed habitat, a

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