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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