Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Sep 11, 2016 7:20 AM – 11:45 AM
Protocol: Traveling
14.0 mile(s)
Comments: Led BBC walk. Couldn’t buy a warbler. Shorebird numbers fairly low, but nice diversity.
48 species (+2 other taxa)
Canada Goose 14
American Black Duck 37
Mallard 19
Green-winged Teal 28 BFP
Wild Turkey 8 One hen with 5 chicks just before the Refuge entrance gate.
Common Loon 1 Emerson Rocks
Pied-billed Grebe 1 Continuing bird at SIP
Double-crested Cormorant 57
Great Blue Heron 16
Great Egret 39
Snowy Egret 31
Black-crowned/Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 12 As we were driving down the Refuge road, we saw approximately 12 Nightherons flying about, as if spooked. This was just before the Goodnough Crossing. Latter in the walk, we came upon 2 more Night herons that flushed as we slowly walked along Hellcat boardwalk approaching Goodenough.
Osprey 3
Northern Harrier 2
Black-bellied Plover 28 BFP & SP
Semipalmated Plover 45
Piping Plover 1 SP
Killdeer 1
Red Knot 7 BFP & SP
Stilt Sandpiper 3 BFP, and surprisingly 1 at the Salt Pannes.
Sanderling 60 From parking lot 7 platform.
Dunlin 3 BFP & SP
Least Sandpiper 3
White-rumped Sandpiper 7 BFP & SIP
Semipalmated Sandpiper 260 Big group at SIP
Short-billed Dowitcher 21
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Greater Yellowlegs 42
Lesser Yellowlegs 4
Ring-billed Gull 4
Herring Gull 13
Great Black-backed Gull 3 Everybody’s friend 2E2 was at SP
Mourning Dove 5
Merlin 1 One flew right over us at the platform at parking lot 7 providing super looks at it.
Peregrine Falcon 2
Eastern Phoebe 1
Blue Jay 3
American Crow 2
Tree Swallow 60
Black-capped Chickadee 2
American Robin 15
Gray Catbird 5
Brown Thrasher 1
Northern Mockingbird 4
European Starling 40
Cedar Waxwing 3
Song Sparrow 1
sparrow sp. 1
Northern Cardinal 1
American Goldfinch 2
View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/
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