Brookline Bird Club – America’s most active bird club!

Cape Ann (please use more refined location), Essex, Massachusetts, US
12-Feb-2023 08:00 – 14:00
Protocol: Traveling
13.0 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:    BBC walk that covered Gloucester Harbor, Jodrey Fish Pier, Rocky Neck, Eastern Point, Braces Cove, Back Shore, Loblolly Cove, Granite Pier, and Andrews Point.  32 degrees, sunny, light breeze,31 seals enjoying the day at Braces Cove
43 species
Brant  6    Granite Pier
Canada Goose  18
Gadwall  10
Mallard  6
American Black Duck  4
Greater Scaup  6
Common Eider  59
Harlequin Duck  27
Surf Scoter  35
White-winged Scoter  46
Black Scoter  63    60 at Andrews Point
Long-tailed Duck  4
Bufflehead  47
Red-breasted Merganser  13
Red-necked Grebe  6
Eared Grebe  1    Continuing bird, though seen from Rocky Neck on this day
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  21
Mourning Dove  2
Ruddy Turnstone  16
Purple Sandpiper  12    4 at Rocky Neck, 8 on rock at Granite Pier
Razorbill  12    Andrews Point
Black Guillemot  1    Back shore – seen further up the road close to first motel
Herring Gull  113
Great Black-backed Gull  20
Common Loon  8
Great Cormorant  32    30 seen from the rocks on the back shore
Northern Harrier  1    Loblolly Cove
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Blue Jay  1
American Crow  5
Black-capped Chickadee  4
Tufted Titmouse  1
Red-breasted Nuthatch  1
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
Carolina Wren  1
American Robin  4
House Sparrow  46
American Pipit  4    Previously reported; Braces Cove in the rocks and along he shore/wrack
House Finch  4
Snow Bunting  20    Pebble Beach
Song Sparrow  1
Red-winged Blackbird  1    Braces Cove
Northern Cardinal  6
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S129264460

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