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Great Neck Wildlife Sanctuary (Mass Audubon), Plymouth, Massachusetts, US

Jun 6, 2026 7:32 AM – 9:48 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.678 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Combined walk with Brookline and Nasketucket Bird Clubs led by Carol Molander. We walked the forested Widow’s Cove Loop leading to the beach, Chase’s Way which has a fresh water pond and meadow, forested Heron Point Loop Trail and back to the main parking lot on the main driveway. We had views of The Widow’s Cove into Buzzard’s Bay, Bass Creek and Bass Cove and its salt marsh.

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Broken clouds – overcast clouds

Temperature: 67 – 74°F

Wind: Light breeze – moderate breeze

Wind Direction: W – SW

Cloud Cover: 69 – 100%

Humidity: 71 – 78%

Sunrise: 5:08am

Sunset: 8:14pm

Weather generated by <a href=”https://raincrow.app/”>RainCrow</a>

43 species

Canada Goose  22    8 goslings

Mallard  1

Common Eider  1

Wild Turkey  7

Willet  3

American Herring Gull  10

Least Tern  2

Common Tern  6

Common Loon  2    Together

Double-crested Cormorant  2

Great Egret  1

Great Blue Heron  12    Minimum

Turkey Vulture  8

Osprey  12    6 nests, 5 platforms and one natural nest

Downy Woodpecker  1

Eastern Wood-Pewee  1    Heard by the exit

Eastern Phoebe  5

Great Crested Flycatcher  5

Blue Jay  6

American Crow  5

Black-capped Chickadee  3

Tufted Titmouse  5

Tree Swallow  2

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  1

Barn Swallow  6

White-breasted Nuthatch  2

Northern House Wren  1

Gray Catbird  7

Eastern Bluebird  2

American Robin  2

American Goldfinch  1

Chipping Sparrow  3

Song Sparrow  1

Eastern Towhee  5

Baltimore Oriole  1

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  2

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Ovenbird  11

Common Yellowthroat  1

Northern Yellow Warbler  3

Pine Warbler  4

Scarlet Tanager  1

Northern Cardinal  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S354243617

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 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 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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