Belle Isle Marsh Reservation, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US
Mar 23, 2025 9:08 AM – 10:33 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.243 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: 30°, 17 mph winds
23 species
Canada Goose 17
Mallard 2
American Black Duck 7
Bufflehead 4
Red-breasted Merganser 2
Mourning Dove 4
Killdeer 4
Ring-billed Gull 12
American Herring Gull 8
Bald Eagle 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Merlin 1
American Crow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 7
American Robin 2
House Finch 4
American Goldfinch 4
American Tree Sparrow 4
Song Sparrow 2
Red-winged Blackbird 12
Common Grackle 1
Northern Cardinal 1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S220350436
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Upcoming Field Trips
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Leader's ChoiceCome and bird/sketch favorite patches around Essex and Middlesex counties. All artistic levels welcomed. Contact leader for details. Call or email no later than April 10.
Woodcocks of Rock Meadow (New Date, Rescheduled from 4/5)
Belmont - Rock Meadow 300 Mill St, Belmont, MA, United StatesCome enjoy the warming evenings at scenic Rock Meadow, which each year plays host to courting American Woodcocks, with the males engaging in their spiraling sky-dance flights above the fields.
Mass. Audubon Boston Nature Center (CANCELED)
Mattapan - MAS Boston Nature Center 500 Walk Hill St, Mattapan, MA, United StatesThis trips has been canceled due to anticipated poor trail conditions. Please keep an eye out for future trips sponsored by Audubon's BNC.
Horn Pond Woburn
Woburn - Horn Pond - Sturgis St 98 Sturgis St, Woburn, MA, United StatesCo-sponsored with Menotomy Bird Club. Join us as we search a different patch of Horn Pond for early spring migrants - particularly Pine, Palm, and Yellow-rumped Warblers, but there may also be phoebes, several sparrows, kinglets and thrushes. Or, let's find a surprise.