Cape Ann (please use more refined location), Essex, Massachusetts, US
Feb 10, 2018
Protocol: Historical
Comments:     BBC Trip to Cape Ann, Ida Giriunas leader
38 species

Canada Goose  6
Mallard  4
American Black Duck  6
Greater Scaup  50
King Eider  1
Common Eider  100
Harlequin Duck  50
Surf Scoter  4
White-winged Scoter  12
Black Scoter  6
Long-tailed Duck  12
Bufflehead  20
Common Goldeneye  16
Barrow’s Goldeneye  1
Red-breasted Merganser  18
Common Loon  10
Horned Grebe  2
Great Cormorant  2
Purple Sandpiper  4
Dovekie  2
Thick-billed Murre  1     Recorded by the BBC trip
Razorbill  2
Atlantic Puffin  1     Recorded by the BBC trip
Ring-billed Gull  X
Herring Gull  X
Great Black-backed Gull  X
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  20
Mourning Dove  6
Snowy Owl  1
Peregrine Falcon  1
American Crow  2
Black-capped Chickadee  2
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
Carolina Wren  1
European Starling  20
Cedar Waxwing  6
Song Sparrow  2
House Sparrow  6

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S46100472

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