Cape Ann, Essex, Massachusetts, US

Feb 13, 2022 8:00 AM – 2:45 PM

Protocol: Traveling

5.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC walk – 27-30 degrees, snowing, poor visibility, and quite windy in spots ( e.g. Halibut point )

47 species (+1 other taxa)

Brant  1

Canada Goose  37

Mallard  49

American Black Duck  12

Greater Scaup  3

Greater/Lesser Scaup  5

Common Eider  83

Harlequin Duck  53    Majority at Halibut Point

Surf Scoter  6

White-winged Scoter  18

Black Scoter  2

Long-tailed Duck  24

Bufflehead  44

Common Goldeneye  21

Red-breasted Merganser  51

Red-necked Grebe  1

Mourning Dove  3

Purple Sandpiper  3    Granite Pier Rockport

Thick-billed Murre  1    Eastern Point MAS Sanctuary – in the cove by parking lot casually floating.  Previously reported.

Razorbill  1

Ring-billed Gull  1

Herring Gull  53

Great Black-backed Gull  57

Common Loon  5

Northern Gannet  1

Great Cormorant  17    10 Atlantic Ave; 7 Granite Pier Rockport.  Many with white flank breeding patch.

Red-tailed Hawk  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Downy Woodpecker  4

Northern Flicker  1

Blue Jay  18

American Crow  14

Black-capped Chickadee  8

Tufted Titmouse  6

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1    Personal residence in Gloucester near Annisquam

White-breasted Nuthatch  1

European Starling  44

American Robin  22

House Sparrow  X

American Pipit  2    Brace’s Cove in the area near OC Warbler; continuing.

House Finch  23

American Goldfinch  6

Fox Sparrow  1    Brace’s Cove, area near the OC Warbler

Dark-eyed Junco  5

White-throated Sparrow  6

Song Sparrow  6

Orange-crowned Warbler  1    From the beach at Brace’s Cove Gloucester, near the three junipers.  Continuing.

Northern Cardinal  6

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S103010793