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  1
Horned Grebe  3
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  30
Ring-billed Gull  1
Herring Gull  10
Great Black-backed Gull  1
Common Loon  1
Northern Harrier  1
Cooper’s Hawk  1     Adult at wardens
Bald Eagle  1     Immature (4th year) hunting along river east of wardens
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Rough-legged Hawk  1     In flight just south of lot one; light morph
Snowy Owl  2     Very distant; on crane beach (seen from lot 7)
Peregrine Falcon  1     Chasing BAEA
Black-capped Chickadee  2
American Robin  200
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  1
Snow Bunting  8     Wardens
American Tree Sparrow  11     Wardens
Dark-eyed Junco  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S51719708


High Street, Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Jan 13, 2019 1:18 PM – 1:22 PM
Protocol: Stationary
1 species

Eastern Screech-Owl  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S51719721


Cashman Park, Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Jan 13, 2019 1:27 PM – 1:48 PM
Protocol: Stationary
7 species

Canada Goose  30
Mallard  4
Bufflehead  22
Common Goldeneye  17
Ring-billed Gull  21
Red-tailed Hawk  1
American Crow  9

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S51719716


Joppa Park, Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Jan 13, 2019 1:53 PM – 2:22 PM
Protocol: Stationary
11 species

Canada Goose  300     Including two partially leucistic individuals
Mallard  35
Northern Pintail  1
Long-tailed Duck  16
Bufflehead  50
Common Goldeneye  20
Red-breasted Merganser  12
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  15
Great Black-backed Gull  1
White-breasted Nuthatch  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S51719713


Plum Island Airport, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Jan 13, 2019 2:26 PM
Protocol: Incidental
2 species

Red-tailed Hawk  1
Northern Mockingbird  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S51719709

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