Brookline Bird Club – America’s most active bird club!

Manomet, Plymouth, Massachusetts, US
May 27, 2018 5:45 AM – 6:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.25 mile(s)
4 species

Red-headed Woodpecker  1     continuing adult, calling and compared to local Red-bellies higher pitch and shorter.  Seen later in morning in better light/background and in flight
Red-bellied Woodpecker  3
Eastern Phoebe  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  1

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Plymouth Beach, Plymouth, Massachusetts, US
May 27, 2018 6:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.5 mile(s)
Comments:     BBC/SSBC/FMSSF/PasamasketBC trip 10 participants
36 species

Mallard (Northern)  12
Common Eider (Dresser’s)  1
Double-crested Cormorant  75
Osprey (carolinensis)  2
Black-bellied Plover  40
Semipalmated Plover  30
Piping Plover  12
Ruddy Turnstone  7
Sanderling  15
Dunlin  2
White-rumped Sandpiper  2
Semipalmated Sandpiper  250
Willet (Eastern)  12
Bonaparte’s Gull  25     no adults
Laughing Gull  250
Ring-billed Gull  175     all first and second year birds; one bird close to adult 3rd yr?
Herring Gull (American)  X
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1     ad or 4th year (brown area on bird seen in field, but image(s) do not show this
Great Black-backed Gull  X
Least Tern  150
Common Tern (hirundo)  10
Black Skimmer  2     adult, one larger than other – male?
Mourning Dove  3
American Crow  4
Horned Lark  2
Tree Swallow  3
Bank Swallow  8
Barn Swallow (American)  20
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  X
Common Yellowthroat  1
Yellow Warbler (Northern)  1
Song Sparrow  11
Common Grackle  21
House Finch  7
House Sparrow  X

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S46092965

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