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