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

Crane WMA, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US
May 27, 2017 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
4.0 mile(s)
Comments:     BBC – Falmouth and Mashpee – Leader: Bob Petersen – 60 degrees, calm, overcast, occasional sun. We started at Crane WMA but then went to South Cape Beach in Mashpee
57 species

Canada Goose  1
Mallard  7
Common Eider  5
Black Scoter  1
Red-breasted Merganser  4
Wild Turkey  1
Double-crested Cormorant  7
Great Egret  3
Turkey Vulture  6
Osprey  11
Red-tailed Hawk  1
American Oystercatcher  1
Piping Plover  4
Killdeer  5
Willet  11
Ring-billed Gull  3
Herring Gull  6
Great Black-backed Gull  4
Least Tern  6
Common Tern  2
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  1
Mourning Dove  6
Chimney Swift  3
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Northern Flicker  2
American Kestrel  2
Eastern Kingbird  2
Blue Jay  14
American Crow  9
Fish Crow  1
Horned Lark  2
Tree Swallow  25
Barn Swallow  15
Black-capped Chickadee  1
Tufted Titmouse  2
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
Eastern Bluebird  4
American Robin  3
Gray Catbird  4
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  1
Ovenbird  1
Common Yellowthroat  11
Yellow Warbler  5
Prairie Warbler  1
Grasshopper Sparrow  6     Restored grassland at Crane WMA is bringing this species back, there were many seen and heard.
Savannah Sparrow  4
Song Sparrow  7
Eastern Towhee  5
Blue Grosbeak  2     There was a male and female pair at Crane WMA. This species has been seen here for several years.
Red-winged Blackbird  12
Eastern Meadowlark  4
Common Grackle  7
Baltimore Oriole  3
House Finch  1
American Goldfinch  8
House Sparrow  2

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S37692011

ANNUAL REPORT 1980

1980 STATISTICAL REPORT  During 1980 the Brookline Bird Club observed 313 species of birds as follows: Massachusetts, 299 species; New Hampshire, two additional species; New Jersey to North Carolina, 12 additional species. The 14 species [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1980

1980 STATISTICAL REPORT  During 1980 the Brookline Bird Club observed 313 species of birds as follows: Massachusetts, 299 species; New Hampshire, two additional species; New Jersey to North Carolina, 12 additional species. The 14 species [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1980

1980 STATISTICAL REPORT  During 1980 the Brookline Bird Club observed 313 species of birds as follows: Massachusetts, 299 species; New Hampshire, two additional species; New Jersey to North Carolina, 12 additional species. The 14 species [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

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