North Eastham brush dump, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US
Oct 3, 2020 7:15 AM – 11:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:    BBC trip, Susan H, 5 participants
White-winged Scoter  14
Mourning Dove  125
Turkey Vulture  3
Red-tailed Hawk  6
Red-bellied Woodpecker  4
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  3
Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  7
American Kestrel  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Eastern Phoebe  2
Blue Jay  20
Fish Crow  8
Black-capped Chickadee  13
Tufted Titmouse  3
Red-breasted Nuthatch  3
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  2
Carolina Wren  6
Gray Catbird  10
Northern Mockingbird  2
Eastern Bluebird  8
American Robin  15
Cedar Waxwing  5
House Finch  7
Purple Finch (Eastern)  6
Pine Siskin  8
American Goldfinch  35
Chipping Sparrow  20
Field Sparrow  3
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  1
White-throated Sparrow  10
Song Sparrow  40
Swamp Sparrow  2
Eastern Towhee  8
Bobolink  2
Common Grackle  3
Common Yellowthroat  1
American Redstart  1
Northern Parula  2
Blackpoll Warbler  2
Palm Warbler (Western)  4
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  5
Northern Cardinal  9
Indigo Bunting  7
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S74433833
High Head, Pilgrim Heights, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  1
Marsh Wren  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1
Black-capped Chickadee  1
Beech Forest, Provincetown, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US
12:15 PM – 1:30 PM
Mallard  1
Least Sandpiper  5
Pectoral Sandpiper  3
Semipalmated Sandpiper  1
Solitary Sandpiper  2
Lesser Yellowlegs  2
Turkey Vulture  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1
Blue-headed Vireo  1
Blue Jay  3
Black-capped Chickadee  10
Tree Swallow  36
Golden-crowned Kinglet  1
Red-breasted Nuthatch  15
Gray Catbird  3
Cedar Waxwing  6
Pine Siskin  1
White-throated Sparrow  7
Swamp Sparrow  1
Eastern Towhee  4
Rusty Blackbird  2
Common Grackle  40
Palm Warbler (Western)  4
Pine Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  30
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S74433828
Race Point Beach, Provincetown, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US
1:45 PM – 2:30 PM
Common Eider (Dresser’s)  75
Surf Scoter  4
White-winged Scoter  25
Black Scoter  15
Parasitic Jaeger  3
Bonaparte’s Gull  3
Laughing Gull  30
Ring-billed Gull  X
Herring Gull (American)  X
Great Black-backed Gull  X
Common Tern  200
Forster’s Tern  5
Sterna sp.  100
Cory’s Shearwater  2
Northern Gannet  3
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S74433414
Lieutenant Island Causeway, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US
Oct 3, 2020 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Common Eider (Dresser’s)  400
Greater Yellowlegs  5
Laughing Gull  5
Double-crested Cormorant  10
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  13
Great Egret  2
Snowy Egret  1
Cape Cod Organic Farm, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US
5:00 PM – 5:45 PM
Wild Turkey  3
Mourning Dove  15
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1
Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2
American Crow  75
Black-capped Chickadee  5
Tufted Titmouse  2
Tree Swallow  10
Red-breasted Nuthatch  3
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  1
Carolina Wren  1
European Starling  X
Gray Catbird  2
Eastern Bluebird  4
American Robin  3
Cedar Waxwing  2
American Goldfinch  5
Chipping Sparrow  3
Field Sparrow  2
White-throated Sparrow  2
Savannah Sparrow  2
Song Sparrow  5
Lincoln’s Sparrow  1
Bobolink  9
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  15
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Palm Warbler (Western)  5
Prairie Warbler  1
Northern Cardinal  2
Indigo Bunting  2
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S74433350

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