Several people joined me on our morning trip. The weather was cool. Skies were overcast with occasional rain…No problem with greenheads, but mosquitoes were plentiful.. Forty nine species of birds were seen. The highlight was the AMERICAN AVOCET which was still there after a week.. Also seen were two FOSTER’S TERNS several RUDDY TURNSTONES, (thank you, Karsten), 136 SNOWY EGRETS in the Stage Island Pool along with 16 GREAT EGRETS and 2 PIED-BILLED GREBES. The tree swallows are beginning to gather in the refuge along with the KINGBIRDS… Complete list below:
Canada Goose 30
Gadwall 6
Black Duck 1
Turkey 1
Pied Bill Grebe 2
D.C. Cormorant 14
Great Blue Heron 4
Great Egret 1
Snowy Egret 136
Osprey 3
Black Bellied Plover 4 +
Semipalmated Plover 50 +
Piping Plover 4
Killdeer 5
American Avocet 1
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Greater Yellow-legs 12 +
Lesser Yellow-legs 2
Ruddy Turnstone 6
Sanderling 2
Semipalmated Sandpiper 40+
Least Sandpiper 6
White-rumped Sandpiper 4
Short-billed Dowitcher 16+
Herring Gulls
Great Black-backed Gulls
Common Tern 2
Least Tern 4
Forster’s Tern 2
Rock Pigeon 1
Mourning Dove 4
Eastern Kingbird 15 +
American Crow 6
Purple Martin 8
Tree Swallow 200+
Barn Swallow 4
Marsh wren 2
American Robin 40 +
Gray Catbird 4
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 100+
Cedar Waxwing 4
Swamp Sparrow 2
Bobolink 1
Red-wing Blackbird 10
Common Grackle 10
House Sparrow 1
Ida Giriunas
Reading, MA
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Millennium Park
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