We will search for resident migrant birds and as well as shorebirds.

We’ll start at Winthrop looking for peeps and White-rumped Sandpipers and move to Belle Isle Marsh to look for Stilt Sandpipers, dowitchers and possibly grassland birds like American Kestrel.

Join us for a pleasant evening of watching nighthawk migration along the Nashua River valley. Bring a lawn chair or a camp stool. This trip is co-sponsored with the Friends of the Oxbow NWR (friendsoftheoxbownwr.org). Rain date: Sunday August 27, same time and place.

We will spend the morning walking 3-4 miles through fields, forests and wetlands looking for post-nesting birds and early migrants. Contact leader the night before in case of rain prediction.

We will drive and carpool down the Parker River Refuge in search of shorebirds and fall migrants

We will begin with a pleasant one mile walk on graded paths and boardwalks observing locally nesting species like Baltimore Oriole, Cedar Waxwing, Indigo Bunting, various flycatchers and possibly some early fall migrants. The walk will culminate on the Elm Brook Boardwalk where we will watch for migrating Common Nighthawks. Co-sponsored by Minute Man NHP. In case of rain please contactKathy by text for walk status.

We wil walk about three miles on easy, leveled dirt paths while searching for migrant and late breeding songbirds. We will also look for late blooming wildflowers such as closed gentian with its unique deep blue-purple flowers. Rain cancels walk.

Stops may include Belle Isle Marsh,The Key, Revere Beach and Winthrop