Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Sep 25, 2016 8:00 AM – 12:14 PM
Protocol: Traveling
4.0 mile(s)
Comments:     BBC – Plum Island – Leader: Neil Hayward
37 species

American Black Duck  143
Mallard  28
Green-winged Teal  42
Common Loon  1
Double-crested Cormorant  40
Great Blue Heron  7
Great Egret  40
Snowy Egret  6
Turkey Vulture  16
Northern Harrier  2
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Black-bellied Plover  39
Semipalmated Plover  7
Killdeer  2
Dunlin  116
Semipalmated Sandpiper  99
Greater Yellowlegs  12
Lesser Yellowlegs  3
Ring-billed Gull  3
Herring Gull  5
Downy Woodpecker  2
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  5
Eastern Phoebe  3
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Blue Jay  3
American Crow  5
Tree Swallow  40
Black-capped Chickadee  6
Red-breasted Nuthatch  5
Golden-crowned Kinglet  3
American Robin  1
Gray Catbird  8
Northern Mockingbird  5
Blackpoll Warbler  2
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  3
Song Sparrow  1
Eastern Towhee  8

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31835123

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