Plum Island (please use more refined location), Essex, Massachusetts, US
May 2, 2026 6:41 AM – 7:21 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.245 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: My Brookline Bird Club Birding By Bike Trip.
Weather: 49-55°F, Cloudy, Occasional rain.
We rode our bikes along the main refuge road between Parking Lot #1 and Hellcat. A splinter group continued to the Pines. We met at 630AM and birded until 1PM, dodging rain drops along the way.
70 species (+1 other taxa)
Snow Goose 1 Flew overhead at Hellcat.
Brant 12
Canada Goose 6
Mute Swan 1
Gadwall 8
Mallard 7
Green-winged Teal 4
Long-tailed Duck 1
Bufflehead 8
Wild Turkey 1
Mourning Dove 9
Clapper Rail 1 Continuing bird.
Killdeer 7
Semipalmated Plover 5
Willet 21 Willets heard and seen from Parking Lot #1 to Hellcat.
Greater Yellowlegs 10
Least Sandpiper 4
American Herring Gull 28
Great Black-backed Gull 3
Common Tern 10
Common Loon 3
Northern Gannet 1
Double-crested Cormorant 7
Glossy Ibis 15
Snowy Egret 2
Great Egret 14
Great Blue Heron 2
Osprey 5
Cooper’s Hawk 5
Accipitrine hawk sp. (former Accipiter sp.) 1
Northern Harrier 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Merlin 6
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 5
Black-capped Chickadee 13
Tree Swallow 26
Purple Martin 5
Barn Swallow 9
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
Marsh Wren 3
European Starling 4
Gray Catbird 2
Brown Thrasher 7
Northern Mockingbird 5
Veery 2
American Robin 12
House Sparrow 2
Purple Finch 9
American Goldfinch 12
Chipping Sparrow 4
White-throated Sparrow 7
Savannah Sparrow 3
Song Sparrow 6
Swamp Sparrow 3
Eastern Towhee 18
Orchard Oriole 1
Red-winged Blackbird 11
Brown-headed Cowbird 4
Common Grackle 15
Northern Waterthrush 3
Black-and-white Warbler 4
Northern Parula 1
Northern Yellow Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1
Palm Warbler 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 16
Northern Cardinal 2
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S332095013
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