Cape Ann (please use more refined location), Essex, Massachusetts, US

10-Feb-2024 08:00 – 15:00

Protocol: Traveling

10.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC Walk – beautiful sunny day, 37-50 degrees.

39 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  4

Gadwall  3    Eastern Point

Mallard  25

American Black Duck  2

Ring-necked Duck  4    Niles Pond

Greater Scaup  6    Niles Pond

Lesser Scaup  4    Niles Pond

Common Eider  142

Harlequin Duck  15

Surf Scoter  67

White-winged Scoter  19

Long-tailed Duck  21

Bufflehead  44

Common Goldeneye  10

Hooded Merganser  2    Niles Pond

Red-breasted Merganser  43

Horned Grebe  4

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  30

Mourning Dove  4

Purple Sandpiper  21

Black Guillemot  1    Back shores

Thick-billed Murre  1    Seen from the North Shore Artist association parking area.  Previously reported from Jodrey Fish Pier.

Herring Gull  95

Great Black-backed Gull  15

gull sp.  30

Common Loon  15

Great Cormorant  15    One with breeding patch

Belted Kingfisher  1

Peregrine Falcon  1

Blue Jay  1

American Crow  6

Carolina Wren  2

European Starling  21

American Robin  4

House Sparrow  35

House Finch  4

White-throated Sparrow  1

Song Sparrow  2

Rusty Blackbird  4    Seen from the beach at Brace’s Cove.  ID:  process of elimination.  Smallish blackbird ( r/o Common Grackle) , yellow eye , no red in wing in flight ( r/o Red-wing Blackbird).  Yellow eye r/o Brown-headed Cowbird. Relatively short pointy bill ( r/0 Starling). This was  most likely ID – open to other opitons.

Northern Cardinal  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S161612670