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

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

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