Brookline Bird Club’s 7 Seas Whale Watch Trip Report, 2024
Photo: Black Guillemot, Johnny Owens
On a beautiful Saturday morning July 27, 46 club members and friends boarded the 7 Seas sailing vessel Privateer IV out of Gloucester Harbor on a whale watching and sea birding adventure! We traveled along the coastline up into Ipswich Bay to Halfway Hump. To our delight there were great looks at many birds, including 4 species of Shearwaters, and even a few species of mammals. Photos were shared to the Brookline Bird Club Facebook page. Here is a listing of what we saw:
What we saw – birds, whales and more!:
- American Black Duck – 32
- Common Eider – 13
- Black Scoter – 1
- Black Guillemont – 1
- Laughing Gull – 1
- Herring Gull – 300 (underestimate)
- Great Black Backed Gull – 42
- Common Tern – 18
- Wilson’s Storm Petral – 6
- Cory’s Shearwater – 14
- Great Shearwater – 26
- Sooty Shearwater – 1
- Manx Shearwater – 3
- Northern Gannet – 1
- DC Cormorant – 500 (underestimate)
- Little Blue Heron – 1
- Great Egret – 21
- Tree Swallow – 3
- Great Blue Heron – 1
- Humpback Whales – 2
- Minke Whale – 1
- Harbor Seal – 1
- Atlantic White Dolphin – 30 (estimate)
- Mola Mola – 2 (awesome looks right next to boat)
- Harbor Porpoises – several small pods
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Vernal Equinox Walk. Leader’s Choice
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CANCELLED “Timberdoodles” Kids Walk in Belmont
Cancelled due to schedule conflict. Please check our other woodcock walks and one led by Menotomy Bird club listed on our calendar too. Two that are in the same area are listed below. https://www.brooklinebirdclub.org/tripevent/woodcocks-at-mary-cummings-park-2/ https://www.brooklinebirdclub.org/tripevent/woodcocks-of-rock-meadow/
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Woodcock Watch, Oxbow NWR, Harvard
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Arlington Reservoir
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Mass. Audubon Boston Nature Center
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