Plum Island (please use more refined location), Essex, Massachusetts, US

Sep 22, 2019 8:25 AM – 12:08 PM

Checklist Comments:    BBC Trip led by Neil Hayward. Sandy Point, Bill Forward Blind, North Pool Overlook.

Canada Goose  2

Wood Duck  1

Blue-winged Teal  1

Northern Shoveler  1

Gadwall  2

American Wigeon  2

Mallard  65

American Black Duck  15

Northern Pintail  8

Black-bellied Plover  81    Count per Bob Stymeist. All together on Sandy Point beach at entrance to lot 6 trail.

Wilson’s Plover  1    Continuing. Large, pale Plover with pink legs and long, black Bill. Mostly sleeping on wrack line.

Semipalmated Plover  50

Red Knot  1

Sanderling  12

Dunlin  6

Least Sandpiper  6

Semipalmated Sandpiper  70

Greater Yellowlegs  26

Lesser Yellowlegs  6

Ring-billed Gull  30

Herring Gull  35

Lesser Black-backed Gull  1

Great Black-backed Gull  25

Double-crested Cormorant  8

Great Blue Heron  2

Great Egret  6

Snowy Egret  1

Turkey Vulture  9

Northern Harrier  2

Red-tailed Hawk  1

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2

Blue Jay  1

American Crow  1

Black-capped Chickadee  1

Tree Swallow  9

European Starling  25

Gray Catbird  1

Brown Thrasher  2

American Robin  30

Cedar Waxwing  1

Savannah Sparrow  3

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S63019749