Cape Ann (please use more refined location), Essex, Massachusetts, US
Jan 20, 2018 8:30 AM – 3:45 PM
Protocol: Traveling
10.0 mile(s)
Comments:     BBC walk – 36 – 46 degrees, mostly cloudy, winds from SW 10 mph
43 species

Gadwall  14     Eastern Point
Mallard  224
American Black Duck  13
Greater Scaup  60     Jodrey Pier
Common Eider  189
Harlequin Duck  63
Surf Scoter  21
White-winged Scoter  47
Black Scoter  43
Long-tailed Duck  44
Bufflehead  74
Common Goldeneye  10
Barrow’s Goldeneye  1     Rowley Shore Rd and Plum Cove
Red-breasted Merganser  58
Common Loon  13
Horned Grebe  3
Red-necked Grebe  1
Northern Gannet  1     Cathedral Ledge/Emerson Inn
Great Cormorant  21
Northern Harrier  1
Cooper’s Hawk  2
Bald Eagle  2     Ten Pound Island
Purple Sandpiper  43     Eastern Point, Bass Rocks, flyby at Folly Cove
Razorbill  26
Black Guillemot  2
Black-legged Kittiwake  5     Cathedral Ledge/Emerson Inn
Herring Gull  X
Iceland Gull  3     Adult and 1st winter in Gloucester Harbor; 1st winter Jodrey Pier
Great Black-backed Gull  18
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  82
Snowy Owl  1     On chimney on building on Straitsmouth
Downy Woodpecker  3
Blue Jay  2
American Crow  25
Black-capped Chickadee  7
Tufted Titmouse  1
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
Carolina Wren  1
Northern Mockingbird  3
European Starling  160
Song Sparrow  3
Northern Cardinal  4
House Sparrow  61

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S42378358

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