Halibut Point SP, Essex, Massachusetts, US

Oct 20, 2024 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Gorgeous day-I was joined by one other person from South Carolina who heard about the trip from BBC he was visiting relatives, also had a Rockport local join who had read about the trip via a different source not BBC. We got 2 mature & 1 immature Gannet, White Wing Scoters, Red Breasted Nuthatches and other perching birds. Bumped into Jason Barcus. Spoke with someone visiting from Minnesota & gave suggestions on additional birding sites to visit in the area.  Saw a Coyote on the outer perimeter of the parking lot but missed a photo because I was taking a photo of the moon & by the time I brought my camera down it had gone into the shrubs.

25 species

White-winged Scoter  10    Had about 3 on the water and 7 fly by.

Mourning Dove  2    In a tree near DCR office.

American Herring Gull  1    Quarry.

Great Black-backed Gull  2    In the Quarry area.

Northern Gannet  3    2 mature, 1 immature at the Overlook at Halibut Point.

Double-crested Cormorant  1    Fly by.

Red-bellied Woodpecker  1

Downy Woodpecker  1

Blue Jay  2

Black-capped Chickadee  2

Golden-crowned Kinglet  1

White-breasted Nuthatch  1

Red-breasted Nuthatch  2    2 Red-breasted Nuthatches in close proximity.

Carolina Wren  2

European Starling  10

Gray Catbird  1

American Robin  5

House Finch  1

American Goldfinch  2

White-throated Sparrow  1

Savannah Sparrow  1

Song Sparrow  3

Brown-headed Cowbird  6

Yellow-rumped Warbler  2

Northern Cardinal  1    heard only

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S201535964