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

Squantum (please use more refined location), Norfolk, Massachusetts, US
21-Aug-2022 06:00 – 09:00
3.0 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:    BBC trip, David T Brown memorial, Glenn d’Entremont leader, 8 participants, then 4 (7:30)
40 species
Mallard  3
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  X
Mourning Dove  6
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Semipalmated Plover  2
Least Sandpiper  5
White-rumped Sandpiper  1
Semipalmated Sandpiper  800    group kept alert with Cooper’s hanging around.  Likely more, but difficult to get complete count.  Several birds put down out of sight behind grass
Short-billed Dowitcher  1
Greater Yellowlegs  26
Lesser Yellowlegs  5
Laughing Gull  2    juv
Ring-billed Gull  X
Herring Gull (American)  X
Great Black-backed Gull  X
Double-crested Cormorant  17
Great Egret  14
Snowy Egret  1
Osprey (carolinensis)  10    actual count and could be as many as 12, several times seeing birds carrying fish flying SE-Weymouth?
Cooper’s Hawk  1    imm, female (?), white chin, large(r) size
Red-shouldered Hawk  1    imm
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2
Eastern Phoebe  9
Eastern Kingbird  1
Blue Jay  2
American Crow  4
Black-capped Chickadee  4
Barn Swallow (American)  6
House Wren  3
European Starling  X
Gray Catbird  3
Northern Mockingbird  1
American Robin  6
Cedar Waxwing  3
House Sparrow  X
American Goldfinch  3
Song Sparrow  12
Common Grackle  4
Common Yellowthroat  1
Northern Cardinal  3
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S117473216

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