Belle Isle Marsh Reservation, Boston – 1/26/19

Belle Isle Marsh Reservation, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US Jan 26, 2019 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) Comments:     5 degrees F, partly cloudy, and windy. There was no open water in the marsh. We went from there to Winthrop Beach Reservation. 27 species Canada Goose  12     overhead American Black Duck  3 Common Eider

Dunback Meadow, Lexington – 1/26/19

Dunback Meadow, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US Jan 26, 2019 7:57 AM - 11:22 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.9 mile(s) Comments:     17 degrees at 8:00   BBC -- Bob Parker, Tom Cosgrove, Mary Lou Kaufman, Bobbie Hodson     sunny      covered all four trails and pines 24 species (+1 other taxa) Mourning Dove  5 gull sp.  1 Red-tailed Hawk  3

Cape Ann – 1/26/19

Cape Ann (please use more refined location), Essex, Massachusetts, US Jan 26, 2019 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM Protocol: Traveling 5.0 mile(s) Comments:     BBC Walk - sunny, 28 degrees at the start, little wind. 45 species Canada Goose  135 Gadwall  4 American Wigeon  3     Brace Cove Mallard  210 American Black Duck  51 Northern Pintail  2

Birds along the Merrimack – 1/13/19

Plum Island (please use more refined location), Essex, Massachusetts, US Jan 13, 2019 2:29 PM - 4:59 PM Protocol: Traveling 7.0 mile(s) 31 species Canada Goose  175 Mallard  10 American Black Duck  150 King Eider  1 Common Eider  20 White-winged Scoter  8 Black Scoter  5 Long-tailed Duck  12 Bufflehead  20 Common Goldeneye  6 Red-breasted Merganser

Arnold Arboretum, Boston – 1/6/19

Arnold Arboretum, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US Jan 6, 2019 9:00 AM - 10:48 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.235 mile(s) Comments:     Bird walk led by Robert Mayer great turn out of 50 plus Partly sunny with temp hovering in low 40's 19 species Mallard  2 Mourning Dove  23 Red-tailed Hawk  2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  2     Immature had brownish wash

Cape Ann – 1/5/19

Cape Ann-Gloucester & Rockport, Essex, Massachusetts, US Jan 5, 2019 8:30 AM - 1:15 PM Protocol: Traveling 10.0 mile(s) Comments:     Brookline Bird Club trip with John Nelson and I leading. Rainy forecast did not materialize and though there were a few sprinkles, it was mostly dry, mild and overcast. 40degrees the Harbor was glass like

Cape Ann – 1/2/19

Halibut Point SP, Essex, Massachusetts, US Jan 2, 2019 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM Comments:    BBC - Cape Ann - Leader: Barbara Volkle - 26 degrees Red-bellied Woodpecker  1 Downy Woodpecker  2 Blue Jay  5 American Crow  2 Black-capped Chickadee  2 White-breasted Nuthatch  2 Carolina Wren  2 American Robin  10 Cedar Waxwing  6 Dark-eyed

New Year’s Day Essex County – 1/1/19

Happy New Year MassBirders! Mark Burns and Laura de la Flor led our 23rd Annual New Year's Day Birding Trip for the Brookline Bird Club (BBC) today! At 9:00AM, 37 BBCers joined us at the Newburyport T  Station parking lot where we toasted in the New Year with sparkling apple cider. During the toast,

Parker River NWR – 12/9/18

Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US Dec 9, 2018 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM Protocol: Traveling 6.0 mile(s) Comments:     BBC trip;  passerines were few and far between despite looking at multiple locations 32 species Snow Goose  1 Canada Goose  80 Mallard  2 American Black Duck  30 Northern Pintail  2 Surf Scoter  1 Black Scoter

Cape Ann – 12/1/18

Jodrey State Fish Pier, Essex, Massachusetts, US Dec 1, 2018 8:19 AM - 8:36 AM Protocol: Stationary Comments:     BBC Field trip led by Neil Hayward. 8 species Common Eider  35 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  20 Herring Gull  200 Great Black-backed Gull  50 Common Loon  1 Double-crested Cormorant  15 Peregrine Falcon  1 American Crow  3

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