Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, 100-132 Prospect Hill Road, Worcester, Massachusetts Mar 7, 2020 6:50 AM - 8:57 AM Checklist Comments:    Despite a 30F morning, it was very windy with wind chills at 19F.  We enjoyed the soaring red-tails and beautiful "corona" with the rising sun.  Otherwise, a very subdued morning for birding. Canada Goose  21 

Cohasset to Marshfield, Massachusetts, US Feb 29, 2020 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM Protocol: Traveling 9.0 mile(s) Checklist Comments:    The trip started in Cohasset and ended at Green Harbor, Marshfield. Conditions were clear and cold with a light wind at times. 30 species (+1 other taxa) Canada Goose  21 Mallard  24 American Black Duck 

Gloucester--Fisherman's Monument, Essex, Massachusetts, US Feb 23, 2020 8:15 AM - 8:35 AM Brant (Atlantic)  9 Mallard  1 Common Eider  30 Surf Scoter  40 White-winged Scoter  1 Black Scoter  1 Long-tailed Duck  15 Bufflehead  4 Common Goldeneye  6 Red-breasted Merganser  14 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  1 Bonaparte's Gull  1 Ring-billed Gull  2 Herring Gull  20

Plum Island, Essex, Massachusetts, US Feb 22, 2020 8:44 AM - 1:04 PM Greater White-fronted Goose  1    Continuing bird. Seen north of refuge entrance around 1pm. Canada Goose  350 Mute Swan  2 Mallard  20 American Black Duck  500    Estimate. Probably more. Northern Pintail  10    Seen by one person at lot 6 from

The annual BBC Waterfowl Prowl took place on Saturday, 22nd Feb 2020, with the intention of finding as many species as possible of ducks and other waterfowl. Conditions were good, 32-44F, with clear skies, but windy later in the day. 7.45am – 4pm. We started at Great Herring Pond, headed west to the Rochester fields

Gloucester--Fisherman's Monument, Essex, Massachusetts, US Feb 17, 2020 7:47 AM - 8:05 AM Checklist Comments:    Sunny and 28 degrees. With Brookline Bird Club walk led by Dave Williams and Mark Nelson. Common Eider  26 Surf Scoter  3 Red-breasted Merganser  2 Herring Gull  8 American Crow  1 House Sparrow  3 Jodrey State Fish Pier, Essex,

Halibut Point SP, Essex, Massachusetts, US Feb 16, 2020 8:00 AM - 10:15 AM Checklist Comments:    BBC - Halibut Point State Park, Rockport, Morning - Leader: Peter Van Demark - Overcast, breeze from SW, 30s 25 species Mallard  112    About 100 at edge of ice on quarry American Black Duck  2 King Eider 

Plum Island (please use more refined location), Essex, Massachusetts, US Feb 16, 2020 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club, Eagles & Owls afternoon walk.  22 people in 9 cars. 23 species Greater White-fronted Goose  1    Continuing bird, seen close to the road before the refuge gate. Photos. Canada Goose 

Old Fish Hatchery and Nye Pond, East Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US Feb 9, 2020 Checklist Comments:    SSBC/BBC trip, Glenn d'Entremont leader, American Black Duck  1 Ring-necked Duck  2 Marsh Wren  1    consistently calling in phragmites, listening to calls of wrens was MAWR, not SEWR (Sedge), playback (about 15 seconds) did not elicit response

Parker River NWR--Lot 1, Essex, Massachusetts, US Feb 9, 2020 9:17 AM - 9:32 AM American Black Duck  9 Common Eider  3 White-winged Scoter  1 Bufflehead  2 Red-breasted Merganser  1 Horned Grebe  3 Dovekie  1 Herring Gull  1 Great Black-backed Gull  1 Northern Harrier  1 Parker River NWR--Salt Pans, Essex, Massachusetts, US Feb 9, 2020