Gloucester Harbor, Essex, Massachusetts, US

Jul 18, 2025 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC sponsored 7 seas whale and birding. MH and JE

10 species

Common Eider  9

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  3

American Herring Gull  110

Great Black-backed Gull  35

Common Loon  1

Double-crested Cormorant  225

Osprey  1

Tree Swallow  1

House Sparrow  1

Common Grackle  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S267087581

Jeffreys Ledge–Scantum Basin, Essex, Massachusetts, US

Jul 18, 2025 9:00 AM – 12:15 PM

Protocol: Traveling

47.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    MH & JE. From  outside the Gloucester harbor to Jeffreys Ledge to North Stellwegen and back on BBC sponsored Seven Seas boat

12 species (+2 other taxa)

Common Eider  2

Least Sandpiper  3    fly by

Laughing Gull  1

American Herring Gull  35

Great Black-backed Gull  24

gull sp.  6

Common Tern  2

Common Loon  1

Wilson’s Storm-Petrel  22

Cory’s Shearwater  5

shearwater sp.  3

Northern Gannet  1

Double-crested Cormorant  26

Tree Swallow  3    fly by

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S267087590

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