Date: 10/24/24 5:06 pm From: <jim.berry3...> <jim.berry3...> Subject: [MASSBIRD] Parker River NWR, Oct 24, 2024
Parker River NWR
Oct 24, 2024 9:25 AM - 12:20 PM
Protocol: Traveling
4.5 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Bob Watts and I birded PI to the old pines and back, driving about 4 miles and walking another half-mile. We heard that the scissor-tailed flycatcher had not been reported in a couple days so did not drive to the south end. Shorebirds were black-bellies, greater yellowlegs, and semi sandpipers. Sparrows were song, savannah, clay-colored, field, and white-throated. Weather was sunny, warm, and breezy.
27 species
Canada Goose 32
Gadwall 6
Mallard 1
American Black Duck 160
Green-winged Teal 32
Mourning Dove 5
Black-bellied Plover 5
Greater Yellowlegs 12
Semipalmated Sandpiper 100 estimate of flock of small sandpipers in flight; a few could have been other peeps
Bonaparte's Gull 1
American Herring Gull 30 estimate
Common Loon 1
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Egret 6
Great Blue Heron 5
Turkey Vulture 1
Northern Harrier 2 juvs. 3 sightings of widespread singles, but only two entered.
Blue Jay 4
Tree Swallow 1
House Finch 1
Clay-colored Sparrow 1 continuing at sub-hq
Field Sparrow 1 sub-hq (aka "the warden's)
White-throated Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 1 sub-hq
Song Sparrow 11
Eastern Towhee 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
