Cape Ann (please use more refined location), Essex, Massachusetts, US 21-Jan-2023 08:00 - 14:00 Protocol: Traveling 13.0 mile(s) Checklist Comments: BBC walk: 31 degrees, cloudy with light wind. Trip started at Gloucester Harbor, then stops at Jodrey Fish Pier, Rocky Neck, Niles Beach, Eastern Point, Elks Club, Pebbly Beach, Loblolly Cove, Granite Pier, and [...]
Dunback Meadow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US 21-Jan-2023 08:04 - 10:09 Checklist Comments: BBC MBC CLC 21 species Mourning Dove 40 Red-tailed Hawk 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 7 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Blue Jay 8 American Crow 1 Black-capped Chickadee 7 Tufted Titmouse 4 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Carolina Wren 1 European Starling 30 Northern Mockingbird [...]
Halibut Point SP, Essex, Massachusetts, US 15-Jan-2023 08:00 - 09:52 Checklist Comments: BBC - Halibut Point State Park, Rockport, Morning - Leader: Peter Van Demark - overcast, 35 degrees, very windy from north (hard to get to edge of Grout Pile) 13 species American Black Duck 2 Common Eider 8 Harlequin Duck 11 White-winged [...]
Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US 15-Jan-2023 07:50 - 10:43 Checklist Comments: Brookline Bird Club- Mt. Auburn Cemetery- Leader: Kathy Dia. 30's F, overcast, breezy early which kept birds quiet, but less so as the morning progressed. Really a lovely selection of birds observed, with the help of many great eyes and ears in [...]
Salisbury Beach State Reservation, Essex, Massachusetts, US 15-Jan-2023 07:20 - 09:30 Protocol: Traveling 3.5 mile(s) Checklist Comments: 33 degrees. NW wind 10-20 gusting to 40mph. Wicked cold. Led BBC walk. 19 species Canada Goose 17 Flying overhead. American Black Duck 23 Common Eider 31 White-winged Scoter 100 Conservative estimate. Long-tailed Duck 5 [...]
Charles River Bike Path--Watertown Square, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US 14-Jan-2023 07:30 - 09:30 Protocol: Traveling 3.0 mile(s) Checklist Comments: BBC Charles River Watertown Bird Walk 26 species Canada Goose 74 Mute Swan 9 Mallard 7 American Black Duck 1 Bufflehead 2 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 3 Mourning Dove 7 Ring-billed Gull 3 Herring Gull 7 [...]
Gloucester--Fisherman's Monument, Essex, Massachusetts, US 07-Jan-2023 08:30 - 08:50 Common Eider 30 Bufflehead 1 Common Goldeneye 1 Red-breasted Merganser 2 Common Loon 1 Jodrey State Fish Pier, Essex, Massachusetts, US 07-Jan-2023 08:53 - 09:18 Common Eider 50 Surf Scoter 4 Long-tailed Duck 1 Red-breasted Merganser 10 Razorbill 3 Common Loon 3 Niles Beach, Essex, Massachusetts, [...]
Arnold Arboretum, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US 07-Jan-2023 09:00 - 10:35 19 species Mallard 3 Herring Gull 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 2 Blue Jay 5 Black-capped Chickadee 5 Tufted Titmouse 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Carolina Wren 1 European Starling 1 American Robin 6 House Sparrow 2 House Finch 8 American Goldfinch 2 [...]
Halibut Point SP, Essex, Massachusetts, US 04-Jan-2023 09:12 - 10:15 Checklist Comments: BBC - Midweek Hunt for Alcids and Seabirds- Leader: Barbara Volkle Mallard 5 Common Eider 7 Harlequin Duck 35 Black Scoter 15 Long-tailed Duck 2 Red-breasted Merganser 4 Ring-billed Gull 1 Great Black-backed Gull 1 gull sp. 3 Common Loon 2 Blue [...]
Happy New Year! Yesterday, Mark Burns and I led our 26th Annual New Year's Day Birding Trip for the Brookline Bird Club (BBC)! At 9:00AM, 24 BBCers met at Cashman Park in Newburyport where we toasted in the New Year with sparkling apple cider, introduced ourselves, and reported on where we traveled from and what [...]
