Brookline Bird Club – America’s most active bird club!

Newburyport & vicinity, Essex, Massachusetts, US

Jan 1, 2024 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Protocol: Traveling

7.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    My Brookline Bird Club 27th Annual New Year’s Day List. Trip Leaders: Mark Burns and me.

Started the trip at 9AM at Cashman Park and traveled to Salisbury Beach State Park, Plum Island, Stackyard Road, and Scotland Road, where we ended the trip at 4PM.

Weather: Partly sunny sky, temps hovered around 32°F, little to no wind.

51 species

Snow Goose  1

Gadwall  8

Mallard  24

American Black Duck  60

Northern Pintail  18

Green-winged Teal  15

Common Eider  24

Surf Scoter  35

White-winged Scoter  60

Black Scoter  9

Long-tailed Duck  16

Bufflehead  3

Common Goldeneye  4

Red-breasted Merganser  3

Horned Grebe  7

Red-necked Grebe  5

Mourning Dove  19

Sanderling  28

Dunlin  1

Purple Sandpiper  1

Pomarine Jaeger  2    Seen from Parking Lot 1 at PRNWR by many.

Ring-billed Gull  16

Herring Gull  85

Great Black-backed Gull  22

Red-throated Loon  4

Common Loon  12

Northern Gannet  33

Great Cormorant  1

Great Blue Heron  1

Northern Harrier  7

Cooper’s Hawk  2

Red-tailed Hawk  1

Eastern Screech-Owl  1

Long-eared Owl  1    Seen by many.

Short-eared Owl  4

Downy Woodpecker  1

Blue Jay  13

American Crow  27

Tufted Titmouse  3

European Starling  27

Northern Mockingbird  6

American Robin  40

House Sparrow  12

American Goldfinch  13

Lark Sparrow  1    Seen at Salisbury Beach State Park by many.

American Tree Sparrow  16

Dark-eyed Junco  18

White-throated Sparrow  1

Song Sparrow  34

Swamp Sparrow  1

Northern Cardinal  5

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S165490664

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 1980

1980 STATISTICAL REPORT  During 1980 the Brookline Bird Club observed 313 species of birds as follows: Massachusetts, 299 species; New Hampshire, two additional species; New Jersey to North Carolina, 12 additional species. The 14 species [...]

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 1980

1980 STATISTICAL REPORT  During 1980 the Brookline Bird Club observed 313 species of birds as follows: Massachusetts, 299 species; New Hampshire, two additional species; New Jersey to North Carolina, 12 additional species. The 14 species [...]

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 1980

1980 STATISTICAL REPORT  During 1980 the Brookline Bird Club observed 313 species of birds as follows: Massachusetts, 299 species; New Hampshire, two additional species; New Jersey to North Carolina, 12 additional species. The 14 species [...]

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