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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