Gloucester Harbor, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Jul 18, 2025 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: BBC sponsored 7 seas whale and birding. MH and JE
10 species
Common Eider 9
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 3
American Herring Gull 110
Great Black-backed Gull 35
Common Loon 1
Double-crested Cormorant 225
Osprey 1
Tree Swallow 1
House Sparrow 1
Common Grackle 1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S267087581
Jeffreys Ledge–Scantum Basin, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Jul 18, 2025 9:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Protocol: Traveling
47.0 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: MH & JE. From outside the Gloucester harbor to Jeffreys Ledge to North Stellwegen and back on BBC sponsored Seven Seas boat
12 species (+2 other taxa)
Common Eider 2
Least Sandpiper 3 fly by
Laughing Gull 1
American Herring Gull 35
Great Black-backed Gull 24
gull sp. 6
Common Tern 2
Common Loon 1
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel 22
Cory’s Shearwater 5
shearwater sp. 3
Northern Gannet 1
Double-crested Cormorant 26
Tree Swallow 3 fly by
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S267087590
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Plum Island
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Barretts Mill Farmland
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Hellcat at Parker River NWR
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