Day 19.242: Birds at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge

We stopped at Plum Island - a short hop up the coast - on our way home from Cape Ann to visit the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge. Here is some of what we saw there:

Osprey

Flycatcher - likely eastern phoebe

Common loon

Northern harrier

Northern harrier

Northern harrier

Lesser yellowlegs

Least sandpiper and semipalmated sandpiper

Mallards

Least sandpiper

Lesser yellowlegs

Take-off!

American black duck and stretching mallard with yellowlegs

Great blue heron

Pied-billed grebe

Yellowlegs

Snowy egret

Snowy egret

Greater yellowlegs

Great egret

Semipalmated sandpipers

Semipalmated plover and least sandpipers

Another norther harrier

Osprey

Semipalmated plovers and white-rumped sandpiper

Semipalmated plovers and white-rumped sandpiper

Semipalmated plovers

After this, we had one further sighting, but that deserves a little post of its own.