111th Ipswich River Bird Survey
May 20, 2017
This year’s participants:
Trip leader: Dave Brewster
Constance Lapite, Diana Fruguglietti, Jim Berry, Robert Buchsbaum
79 species (+3 other taxa)
| Canada Goose | 62 | including several broods |
| Wood Duck | 0 | This was a surprise |
| Mallard | 9 | |
| Common Loon | 3 | flyovers |
| Double-breasted Comorant | 2 | |
| Great Blue Heron | 9 | |
| Great Egret | 13 | |
| Turkey Vulture | 4 | |
| Osprey | 1 | |
| Turkey Vulture | 2 | |
| Accipiter species | 1 | |
| Broad-winged Hawk | 1 | |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 5 | |
| Virginia Rail | 1 | |
| Sora | 1 | |
| Killdeer | 1 | |
| peep sp. | 1 | |
| Spotted Sandpiper | 6 | |
| Solitary Sandpiper | 1 | The high water limited the numbers of shorebirds. |
| Herring Gull | 4 | |
| Larus sp. | 30 | |
| Mourning Dove | 14 | One pair building a nest. |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | 2 | |
| Chimney Swift | 4 | |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 2 | |
| Belted Kingfisher | 2 | |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 7 | |
| Downy Woodpecker | 5 | |
| Hairy Woodpecker | 5 | including a nest with noisy young |
| Northern Flicker | 2 | |
| Pileated Woodpecker | 5 | |
| Eastern Wood-Pewee | 10 | |
| Alder Flycatcher | 1 | |
| Willow Flycatcher | 1 | |
| Least Flycatcher | 1 | |
| Eastern Phoebe | 6 | |
| Great-crested Flycatcher | 17 | |
| Eastern Kingbird | 16 | |
| Yellow-throated Vireo | 4 | |
| Warbling Vireo | 38 | Exact count. These birds are abundant along the river. |
| Red-eyed Vireo | 3 | |
| Blue Jay | 4 | |
| American Crow | 7 | |
| Tree Swallows | 170 | Several nests in snags (one in a box). One of the three most abundant species on the river (the other two being the blackbirds). |
| Barn Swallow | 11 | |
| Black-capped Chickadee | 10 | |
| Tufted Titmouse | 26 | |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | 5 | |
| House Wren | 2 | |
| Marsh Wren | 13 | |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 23 | |
| Eastern Bluebird | 12 | |
| Veery | 1 | |
| Swainson’s Thrush | 2 | |
| Wood Thrush | 1 | |
| American Robin | 9 | |
| Gray Catbird | 19 | |
| European Starling | 7 | |
| Cedar Waxwing | 17 | |
| Northern Waterthrush | 2 | |
| Ovenbird | 5 | |
| Northern Waterthrush | 2 | |
| Black-and-white Warbler | 2 | |
| Nashville Warbler | 1 | |
| Common Yellowthroat | 33 | |
| American Redstart | 5 | |
| Northern Parula | 3 | |
| Blackburnian Warbler | 1 | |
| Yellow Warbler | 24 | |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler | 2 | |
| Black-throated Blue Warbler | 1 | |
| Pine Warbler | 1 | |
| Wilson’s Warbler | 1 | |
| Chipping Sparrow | 5 | |
| Song Sparrow | 31 | |
| Swamp Sparrow | 3 | |
| Scarlet Tanager | 1 | |
| Northern Cardinal | 4 | |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 18 | |
| Orchard Oriole | 2 | |
| Baltimore Oriole | 43 | |
| Red-winged Blackbird | 210 | |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 2 | |
| Common Grackle | 135 | |
| American Goldfinch | 10 | |
| House Sparrow | 2 |