[MASSBIRD] Mass Bird Audio Recordings

[Shilo McDonald]

Afternoon All,
Thanks to Phil Brown's Yellow-headed Blackbird, I now have seen 337
species within the Commonwealth (Lifetime). And of those, I've
submitted to eBird the audio recordings for 174 of them. (Recordings
made with Voice Memo app on iPhone. Spectrogram analysis performed
using Audacity for Mac.)

Here's my most recent Plum Island eBird Report which includes 83
Photos and 4 Audio Recordings: https://ebird.org/checklist/S153435662

Text only report below.

Happy Birding,
Shilo McDonald
Lynn, Massachusetts
SMcD...@brooklinebirdclub.org

Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Oct 29, 2023 3:30 PM - 5:20 PM
Protocol: Traveling
5.0 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Went to Plum Island after Doug Checkering's
Celebration of Life.
49 species

Canada Goose 16
Mute Swan 2 North Pool.
Gadwall 50
American Wigeon 4 Bill Forward Pool.
Mallard 100
American Black Duck 500
Northern Pintail 40
Green-winged Teal 750 It's hard to count them all. This is a
conservative estimate. And also -- easily the most Green-winged Teal
I've ever seen altogether. Bill Forward Pool.
Ring-necked Duck 4 Salt Pannes.
Lesser Scaup 4 Scope views from the dike. Way in the back of the
Bill Forward Pool.
Bufflehead 2 Ocean side / Parker River.
Pied-billed Grebe 1 in the North Pool. Seen from Hellcat Dike.
Horned Grebe 1 Ocean side / Parker River.
Mourning Dove 3
American Coot 2 Together in the North Pool. Seen from Hellcat Dike.
Black-bellied Plover 20 Bill Forward Pool.
Long-billed Dowitcher 4
Lesser Yellowlegs 4 Bill Forward Pool.
Greater Yellowlegs 25 Bill Forward Pool.
Red Knot 2 Bill Forward Pool.
Sanderling 5 Bill Forward Pool.
Dunlin 100 Bill Forward Pool.
White-rumped Sandpiper 20 Bill Forward Pool.
Herring Gull 32
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Common Loon 5 Ocean side / Parker River.
Double-crested Cormorant 125
Great Egret 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Northern Harrier 1 Harassing a Red-tailed Hawk.
Red-tailed Hawk 1 Perched atop the Hellcat Tower. Minding his own
business. Preening mostly. Except for when he was harassed by an
American Kestrel. Or when he was harassed by a Northern Harrier. Those
jerks. ;-)
American Kestrel 1 Scaring up the shore birds in Bill Forward Pool.
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 1
Black-capped Chickadee 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
Gray Catbird 1
American Robin 4
Cedar Waxwing 1
American Pipit 11 Flew over the dike all together. Vocalizing with
a rising "pip-it" as they flew.
American Goldfinch 1
Dark-eyed Junco 2
White-throated Sparrow 3
Song Sparrow 2
Swamp Sparrow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 3
Common Grackle 5
Common Yellowthroat 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1