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Lake Quannapowitt, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US
Nov 5, 2017 7:45 AM – 8:40 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.5 mile(s)
Comments:     Led BBC walk. 49 degrees, overcast, light wind.
16 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  55     On the Town Green
Greater/Lesser Scaup  2
Bufflehead  6
Hooded Merganser  4
Common Merganser  10
Red-throated Loon  1     Continuing bird found by Melissa Souvey a couple of days ago.  On the far side of the lake, no photos.
Double-crested Cormorant  10
Great Blue Heron  3
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Ring-billed Gull  58
Herring Gull  20
Great Black-backed Gull  2
Mourning Dove  1
Blue Jay  2
European Starling  60
Rusty Blackbird  3     Seen across the cove from the yacht club.  There were possibly several more Rustie’s there, too.
blackbird sp.  5
American Goldfinch  7

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S41447028

Crystal Lake, Wakefield, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US
Nov 5, 2017 8:55 AM – 9:40 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.3 mile(s)
Comments:     Led BBC walk.
12 species

Canada Goose  56
Mute Swan  6
Mallard  20
American Black Duck  2
Green-winged Teal  48     This number is not unusual for this location at this time of year.  The part of the lake they frequent is very shallow allowing for good foraging opportunities.
Ring-necked Duck  3
Hooded Merganser  1
Double-crested Cormorant  1
American Coot  1
Greater Yellowlegs  1     Fly over, calling as we entered the area.
Herring Gull  1
Belted Kingfisher  1

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S41447029

Lynnfield Marsh–IBA, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Nov 5, 2017 9:55 AM – 10:45 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
Comments:     Led BBC walk. Birded this IBA area from Audubon Rd. and the business park.
9 species

Mute Swan  2
Mallard  2
American Black Duck  3
Bufflehead  6
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Great Blue Heron  1
Belted Kingfisher  1
Blue Jay  3
American Crow  5

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S41447032

Pillings Pond, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Nov 5, 2017 10:55 AM – 11:00 AM
Protocol: Stationary
Comments:     Led BBC walk.
4 species

Canada Goose  15
Double-crested Cormorant  1
Ring-billed Gull  1
Blue Jay  1

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S41447034

Suntaug Lake, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Nov 5, 2017 11:05 AM – 11:45 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.2 mile(s)
Comments:     Led BBC walk.
16 species (+1 other taxa)

Ring-necked Duck  2
Greater/Lesser Scaup  12     Way far out for certain ID.
Hooded Merganser  10
Ruddy Duck  6
Pied-billed Grebe  2
Double-crested Cormorant  75     5 on the Res. and alarmed skein of 70 flying high overhead.
Osprey  1
Cooper’s Hawk  1
Bald Eagle  1     Adult on its usual perch on Humpfries Island.
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Blue Jay  1
American Crow  20     Big mob in the distance.
Carolina Wren  1     Heard.
American Robin  1
Northern Mockingbird  1
Dark-eyed Junco  12
Song Sparrow  3

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S41447035

 

ANNUAL REPORT 1986

THE 1986 STATISTICAL REPORT by Mary Lou Barnett, Statistician During 1986 the Brookline Bird Club listed 307 birds including 21 write-ins. These unusual sightings included the following: Yellow-throated Warbler            Brewster           1-5 Hoary Redpoll                           Newburyport    3-15 Jackdaw                                    Nantucket         3-16 Eared Grebe                              North Scituate  3-22 [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1985

STATISTICAL REPORT 1985 by Mary L. Barnett, Statistician “Come in, Barn Owl. We're at the Salt Pans. The Tundra Swan just landed.” BBC CB Radio Patrol 12-7-1985 The Birding Highlight of 1985 was the proliferation [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1984

STATISTICAL REPORT-1984  Our Life List is a storehouse of rich memories to which we added this year the monarch of shorebirds, the Long-billed Curlew, on the 9th of June. Like an echo, to the same [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1983

1983 BROOKLINE BIRD CLUB STATISTICAL REPORT During 1983 the Brookline Bird Club listed 300 Massachusetts species, and identified an additional six hybrids, subspecies, color morphs, or exotics, totaling 306 in all. Trips to Maine added [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1982

1982 STATISTICAL REPORT  In 1982 the Brookline Bird Club enriched its Massachu-setts Life Species List to 376 with the addition of Townsend's Solitaire, viewed at West Tisbury on January 3rd. Dr. Bob Timberlake’s Falmouth trip [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1981

1981 STATISTICAL REPORT “My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing There isn’t a [bird trip] I wouldn’t take No matter where it’s going!” (with apologies to [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1986

THE 1986 STATISTICAL REPORT by Mary Lou Barnett, Statistician During 1986 the Brookline Bird Club listed 307 birds including 21 write-ins. These unusual sightings included the following: Yellow-throated Warbler            Brewster           1-5 Hoary Redpoll                           Newburyport    3-15 Jackdaw                                    Nantucket         3-16 Eared Grebe                              North Scituate  3-22 [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1985

STATISTICAL REPORT 1985 by Mary L. Barnett, Statistician “Come in, Barn Owl. We're at the Salt Pans. The Tundra Swan just landed.” BBC CB Radio Patrol 12-7-1985 The Birding Highlight of 1985 was the proliferation [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1984

STATISTICAL REPORT-1984  Our Life List is a storehouse of rich memories to which we added this year the monarch of shorebirds, the Long-billed Curlew, on the 9th of June. Like an echo, to the same [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1983

1983 BROOKLINE BIRD CLUB STATISTICAL REPORT During 1983 the Brookline Bird Club listed 300 Massachusetts species, and identified an additional six hybrids, subspecies, color morphs, or exotics, totaling 306 in all. Trips to Maine added [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1982

1982 STATISTICAL REPORT  In 1982 the Brookline Bird Club enriched its Massachu-setts Life Species List to 376 with the addition of Townsend's Solitaire, viewed at West Tisbury on January 3rd. Dr. Bob Timberlake’s Falmouth trip [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1981

1981 STATISTICAL REPORT “My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing There isn’t a [bird trip] I wouldn’t take No matter where it’s going!” (with apologies to [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1986

THE 1986 STATISTICAL REPORT by Mary Lou Barnett, Statistician During 1986 the Brookline Bird Club listed 307 birds including 21 write-ins. These unusual sightings included the following: Yellow-throated Warbler            Brewster           1-5 Hoary Redpoll                           Newburyport    3-15 Jackdaw                                    Nantucket         3-16 Eared Grebe                              North Scituate  3-22 [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1985

STATISTICAL REPORT 1985 by Mary L. Barnett, Statistician “Come in, Barn Owl. We're at the Salt Pans. The Tundra Swan just landed.” BBC CB Radio Patrol 12-7-1985 The Birding Highlight of 1985 was the proliferation [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1984

STATISTICAL REPORT-1984  Our Life List is a storehouse of rich memories to which we added this year the monarch of shorebirds, the Long-billed Curlew, on the 9th of June. Like an echo, to the same [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1983

1983 BROOKLINE BIRD CLUB STATISTICAL REPORT During 1983 the Brookline Bird Club listed 300 Massachusetts species, and identified an additional six hybrids, subspecies, color morphs, or exotics, totaling 306 in all. Trips to Maine added [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1982

1982 STATISTICAL REPORT  In 1982 the Brookline Bird Club enriched its Massachu-setts Life Species List to 376 with the addition of Townsend's Solitaire, viewed at West Tisbury on January 3rd. Dr. Bob Timberlake’s Falmouth trip [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1981

1981 STATISTICAL REPORT “My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing There isn’t a [bird trip] I wouldn’t take No matter where it’s going!” (with apologies to [...]

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