Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Aug 13, 2016 8:00 AM – 1:15 PM
Protocol: Traveling
6.0 mile(s)
Comments: Brookline Bird Club trip led by Sabrina Hepburn, 9 participants
59 species
Cool overcast weather, modest crowds and some unusual birds combined for a great morning at Plum Island for the Brookline Bird Club trip. Highlights included the continuing AMERICAN AVOCET, seen from the Stage Island tower, along with Hudsonian Godwit, Black Tern, and Forster’s Tern at Stage Island and a Red Knot from the Bill Forward Blind. Roseate Terns from Sandy Point Beach. Complete ebird list below.
Canada Goose 20
American Black Duck 15
Mallard 80
Double-crested Cormorant 80
Great Blue Heron 3
Great Egret 8
Snowy Egret 100
Green Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 2
American Avocet 1 Continuing bird, seen from Stage Island tower
Black-bellied Plover 40
Semipalmated Plover 300
Piping Plover 20
Killdeer 5
Hudsonian Godwit 1 Stage Is
Ruddy Turnstone 1 Sandy pt
Red Knot 1 Bill Forward blind
Sanderling 3
Least Sandpiper 10
White-rumped Sandpiper 5
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper 250
Short-billed Dowitcher 30
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Greater Yellowlegs 50
Willet 3
Lesser Yellowlegs 25
Ring-billed Gull 10
Herring Gull 15
Great Black-backed Gull 4
Least Tern 12
Black Tern 1 Stage Is.
Roseate Tern 5 Sandy Pt.
Common Tern 30
Forster’s Tern 1
Mourning Dove 1
Northern Flicker 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Eastern Kingbird 15
American Crow 2
Tree Swallow 5000
Bank Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 2
American Robin 3
Gray Catbird 8
Brown Thrasher 2
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 40
Cedar Waxwing 6
Common Yellowthroat 1
Yellow Warbler 2
Song Sparrow 2
Eastern Towhee 5
Common Grackle 2
Baltimore Oriole 1
American Goldfinch 4
View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/
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