Wompatuck SP, Plymouth, Massachusetts, US
May 7, 2017 6:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
5.5 mile(s)
Comments: Brookline Bird Club walk led by Eddie Giles.
49 species (+1 other taxa)
Wood Duck 2 (G9. Pair of males first seen as flyovers, later seen flushing from waterway/wetland that flows alongside G9.)
Ruffed Grouse 1 (G9. Heard only.)
Double-crested Cormorant 4 (Flyovers)
Great Blue Heron 2 (Holly Pond.)
Turkey Vulture 4
Osprey 1 (Flyover.)
Broad-winged Hawk 1 (Observed soaring around the visitors center. Third weekend in a row noted at this location.)
Buteo sp. 8 (Kettle of eight birds observed high over the park. Presumed to be Broad-winged Hawks.)
Ring-billed Gull 2 (Flyovers)
Mourning Dove 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker 1
Eastern Phoebe 2
Great Crested Flycatcher 3 (Heard only.)
Blue-headed Vireo 1 (Singing male between N4 and N5.)
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 3
American Crow 2
Barn Swallow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 8
Tufted Titmouse 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Brown Creeper 1 (G16)
Winter Wren 1 (G16)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 10
Veery 2
American Robin 4
Gray Catbird 6
Ovenbird 20 (Easily more, conservative count.)
Worm-eating Warbler 3 (One bird observed singing along trail at G9. Later while standing on road between G8 and G9, we observed two males singing/giving chase, who were then joined/chased by a third bir flying across the road from G9. We could not be sure if that third bird was the same bird we had observed earlier or a different, fourth bird.)
Louisiana Waterthrush 1 (Singing across from G16.)
Blue-winged Warbler 2 (Along G9 and along road between G8 and G9.)
Black-and-white Warbler 10
Common Yellowthroat 2 (G9)
Northern Parula 1 (Seen and heard along the trail to Picture Pond.)
Yellow Warbler 4
Pine Warbler 6
Yellow-rumped Warbler 3
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Chipping Sparrow 6
Song Sparrow 2
Swamp Sparrow 1
Eastern Towhee 8
Northern Cardinal 6
Red-winged Blackbird 1 (Holly Pond.)
Brown-headed Cowbird 4
Baltimore Oriole 3
American Goldfinch 6
View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S36667395
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