Gooseberry Neck, Bristol, Massachusetts, US
Oct 15, 2017 6:30 AM – 8:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.8 mile(s)
Comments:     Brookline Bird Club walk – Leader Nickilas Paulson – Gooseberry Neck – Foggy and humid. slow migration day.
29 species (+1 other taxa)

Common Eider  38
Surf Scoter  24
White-winged Scoter  30
Black Scoter  2
Red-breasted Merganser  2
Northern Gannet  1
Double-crested Cormorant  12
Cooper’s Hawk  1
Semipalmated Plover  2
Ruddy Turnstone  5
Sanderling  18
Semipalmated Sandpiper  1
Laughing Gull  140
Ring-billed Gull  16
Herring Gull  60
Great Black-backed Gull  7
Blue Jay  7
American Crow  1
Tree Swallow  40
Barn Swallow (American)  1
House Wren  1
American Robin  6
Gray Catbird  2
European Starling  51
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  24
White-throated Sparrow  2
Savannah Sparrow  1
Swamp Sparrow  1
sparrow sp.  1     Quick flight view. Back color appeared like Vesper.
House Finch  4

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S40048238

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