Plum Island–Parker River NWR & Sandy Pt. State Reservation, Essex, Massachusetts, US

Aug 30, 2026 9:30 AM – 1:50 PM

Protocol: Traveling

6.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk – Plum Island – Leader Nick Paulson

56 species (+2 other taxa)

Mute Swan  6

Gadwall  4

Mallard  10

Green-winged Teal  7

Mourning Dove  6

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1

Black-bellied Plover  2

Killdeer  4

Semipalmated Plover  100

Short-billed Dowitcher  2

Spotted Sandpiper  2

Greater Yellowlegs  35

Red Knot  7

Buff-breasted Sandpiper  5    1 at the pannes. Landed for less than a second and flew off. 4 at Bill Forward Pool from Hellcat Dike.

Sanderling  5

Least Sandpiper  20

Semipalmated Sandpiper  50

peep sp.  25

Laughing Gull  3

Ring-billed Gull  1

American Herring Gull  50

Great Black-backed Gull  8

Common Tern  1

Double-crested Cormorant  20

Snowy Egret  5

Great Egret  20

Great Blue Heron  2

Turkey Vulture  5

Osprey  3

Northern Harrier  1

Downy Woodpecker  1

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1

Empidonax sp.  1    Trail’s

Eastern Kingbird  20

Red-eyed Vireo  4

Blue Jay  12

American Crow  1

Black-capped Chickadee  12

Tree Swallow  4000

Barn Swallow  2

White-breasted Nuthatch  1

Red-breasted Nuthatch  1

European Starling  12

Gray Catbird  15

Northern Mockingbird  1

American Robin  12

Cedar Waxwing  50

House Finch  2

Purple Finch  5

American Goldfinch  16

Chipping Sparrow  2

Song Sparrow  1

Eastern Towhee  6

Baltimore Oriole  1

Common Grackle  2

Common Yellowthroat  1

Blackpoll Warbler  2    A little early. Lemony yellow birds, dark wings with 2 white wing bars. White undertail coverts. More streaky sides of breast than Bay-breasted. One along hellcat trail, one by the road at hellcat.

Northern Cardinal  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S398063922

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