Happy New Year MassBirders!
Mark Burns and Laura de la Flor led our 23rd Annual New Year’s Day Birding Trip for the Brookline Bird Club (BBC) today! At 9:00AM, 37 BBCers joined us at the Newburyport T Station parking lot where we toasted in the New Year with sparkling apple cider. During the toast, introductions were made and folks told us where they traveled from and what their first bird of the New Year was. (Mine was Black-capped Chickadee and Mark s was American Crow.)
We birded Salisbury Beach State Reservation, Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, and Cape Ann [Jodrey Fish Pier, Eastern Point, Niles Pond, and Bass Rocks] and called it a day at 4:00PM. The temperature ranged from 41df to 53df with wind gusts up to 35mph. We tallied 57 species for the Club list. Following is a complete list of the birds we saw:
Canada Goose – 55
Gadwall 9
American Wigeon – 4
American Black Duck 66
Mallard 40
Ring-necked Duck – 4
Greater Scaup 7
King Eider 1
Common Eider 63
Surf Scoter 70
White-winged Scoter 45
Black Scoter 16
Long-tailed Duck 12
Bufflehead 34
Common Goldeneye 16
Red-breasted Merganser 20
Red-throated Loon 2
Common Loon 12
Horned Grebe – 14
Great Cormorant 3
Bald Eagle 1
Northern Harrier 3
Sharp-shinned Hawk – 1
Cooper s Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Rough-legged Hawk 1
Sanderling 6
Ring-billed Gull 24
Herring Gull 340
Great Black-backed Gull 68
Black Guillemot – 1
Rock Pigeon 130
Mourning Dove 18
Eastern Screech Owl 1
Snowy Owl – 1
Downy Woodpecker 6
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Merlin 1
Peregrine Falcon 2
Blue Jay 25
American Crow 35
Black-capped Chickadee 20
Tufted Titmouse 5
White-breasted Nuthatch 3
Eastern Bluebird – 1
American Robin 14
Northern Mockingbird 8
European Starling 4
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Fox Sparrow – 1
American Tree Sparrow 7
Song Sparrow 10
White-throated Sparrow 2
Dark-eyed Junco 4
Northern Cardinal 16
House Sparrow 30
What make this trip so much fun to lead each New Year s Day are those who participate Thank you for spending part or all of your day birding with us!
Wishing you a very Happy, Healthy, and Birdy 2019!