Wompatuck 5/8

From Eddie Giles:

About a dozen birders turned out this morning for my co-sponsored Brookline Bird Club.South Shore Bird Club trip.  Starting at 6:00 AM and ending around 10:30 AM, we found the following 47 species:

Canada Goose
Mallard
Great Blue Heron
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Herring Gull
Mourning Dove
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe (including one nest that _had_ a Brown-headed cowbird egg in it)
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Winter Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Veery
American Robin
Gray Catbird

WARBLERS
Nashville
Northern Parula
Yellow
Yellow-rumped
Black-throated Green
Blackburnian
Pine
Blackpoll
Cerulean - continues down by Picture Pond
Black-and-white
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
KENTUCKY - Gate 16 (G16)/Holly Pond Road.  The bird was skulking in the thickets on the right immediately before the loop road begins.
Common Yellowthroat
(NOTE - We encountered no singing Worm-eating Warblers, but we did not get to their locations until late in the morning.  They may have been singing 3-4 hours earlier.)

Scarlet Tanager -  many, including a M/F pair at G16 and a strange orange variant whose feathering underneath from vent to tail was yellow.
Eastern Towhee
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Common Grackle
Baltimore Oriole
PINE SISKIN - under the feeders of the first house on the left outside of the park near the Picture Pond gate.
American Goldfinch