Wompatuck SP, Plymouth, Massachusetts, US
Apr 30, 2017 6:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
6.5 mile(s)
Comments:     Brookline Bird Club walk led by Eddie Giles.
52 species

Canada Goose  2     – Holly Pond
Wood Duck  3     – Flyovers
Double-crested Cormorant  1     – flyover
Broad-winged Hawk  2
Mourning Dove  1
Belted Kingfisher  1     – Picture Pond
Red-bellied Woodpecker  4
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1
Eastern Phoebe  9     – Two nests observed, one with a clutch of five eggs (no cowbird eggs). Last week this nest had one egg.
Great Crested Flycatcher  2
Blue-headed Vireo  X     – (4) counted by Glenn d’Entremont
Blue Jay  10
American Crow  1
Fish Crow  1
Black-capped Chickadee  17
Tufted Titmouse  9
Red-breasted Nuthatch  1
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  5
Brown Creeper  2
House Wren  1
Winter Wren  2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (caerulea)  8
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  2
Hermit Thrush  2
American Robin  7
Gray Catbird  2
European Starling  X
Ovenbird  X     – (36) counted by Glenn d’Entremont
Louisiana Waterthrush  2     – one bird singing across from G16, a second bird singing from the opposite side of Picture Pond.
Northern Waterthrush  X     – (3) counted by Glenn d’Entremont
Blue-winged Warbler  2
Black-and-white Warbler  X     – (13) counted by Glenn d’Entremont
American Redstart  1
Northern Parula  2
Magnolia Warbler  1     – (1) bird observed in the company of a couple of Yellow-rumped Warblers
Yellow Warbler (Northern)  2
Palm Warbler (Yellow)  2
Pine Warbler  8
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  11
Chipping Sparrow  17
White-throated Sparrow  6
Song Sparrow  5
Swamp Sparrow  1
Eastern Towhee  9     – at one point we had five birds in view, (3) male and (2) females
Scarlet Tanager  5
Northern Cardinal  13
Brown-headed Cowbird  12
House Finch  1
American Goldfinch  6
House Sparrow  X

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S36545666

 

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