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North Eastham brush dump, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US

Oct 5, 2019 7:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Comments:    SSBC/BBC trip, Glenn d’Entremont leader, Ernie L, Paul C, 8 participants

 

Mourning Dove  12

Greater Yellowlegs  9

Sharp-shinned Hawk  1

Red-tailed Hawk  1

Eastern Screech-Owl (Northern)  1

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  3

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  4

Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  6

Eastern Phoebe  1

Blue Jay  11

American Crow  2

Black-capped Chickadee  15

Tufted Titmouse  4

Golden-crowned Kinglet  1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1

Red-breasted Nuthatch  8

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  2

House Wren (Northern)  2

European Starling  X

Gray Catbird  7

American Robin  6

Cedar Waxwing  1

American Pipit  1

House Finch  10

American Goldfinch  23

Chipping Sparrow  110

Field Sparrow  8

White-crowned Sparrow  1

White-throated Sparrow  4

Song Sparrow  50

Eastern Towhee  2

Common Grackle  500

Orange-crowned Warbler  1

Orange-crowned Warbler (Gray-headed)  1

Nashville Warbler  1

Common Yellowthroat  1

Magnolia Warbler  2

Palm Warbler  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  1

Northern Cardinal  6

Indigo Bunting  1

 

 

Beech Forest, Provincetown, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM

 

Mourning Dove  1

Spotted Sandpiper  1

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1

Eastern Phoebe  2

Blue Jay  4

Black-capped Chickadee  7

Tufted Titmouse  5

Tree Swallow  200

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  1

Carolina Wren  1

Gray Catbird  4

American Robin  2

White-throated Sparrow  7

Eastern Towhee  3

Common Grackle  50

Pine Warbler  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  1

 

 

Race Point Beach, Provincetown, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US 12:45 PM – 2:00 PM

 

Common Eider (Dresser’s)  20

Surf Scoter  50

White-winged Scoter  60

Black Scoter  30

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  X

Sanderling  2

phalarope sp.  2    very likely Red, gray backed shorebirds just appeared while following a jaeger chasing a tern, bird appeared to dodge the jaeger, then joined by second bird, birds circled area then disappeared-landed on water?-before waves blocked view

Parasitic Jaeger  10    to 12 individuals.  Seemed like a lot of circling around, only three birds noted moving through area and south, rest seemed to circulate

Bonaparte’s Gull  20

Laughing Gull  50

Ring-billed Gull  X

Herring Gull (American)  X

Great Black-backed Gull  X

Roseate Tern  2

Common Tern  200

Common Loon  2

Leach’s Storm-Petrel  1    flew behind flock of eiders and scoters, significantly smaller than the ducks, brown bird with whitish rump, longish tail, long pointed wings for a storm-petrel was initially banking, turned and picked at surface, lost when wave blocked view, seen quickly after by other participant

Cory’s Shearwater  3

Northern Gannet  15

Double-crested Cormorant  5

Tree Swallow  10

 

 

Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary (Mass Audubon), Barnstable, Massachusetts, US

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM

 

Semipalmated Plover  12

Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  2

Great Egret  3

Snowy Egret  3

Turkey Vulture  1

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Belted Kingfisher  1

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  3

Red-bellied Woodpecker  3

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1

Western Kingbird  1    continuing bird from 10/4, gray head and back, ashy gray throat/chin, light lemon yellow rest of underparts, blackish tail with white outer tail feathers

Blue Jay  2

American Crow  10

Black-capped Chickadee  9

Tufted Titmouse  3

Red-breasted Nuthatch  1

Gray Catbird  1

House Sparrow  X

White-throated Sparrow  1

Song Sparrow  1

Baltimore Oriole  1

Common Grackle  3

Northern Cardinal  2

 

 

First Encounter Beach, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US  4:30 PM – 4:45 PM

 

Black-bellied Plover  26

Dunlin  1

Northern Harrier  1

Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  2

 

 

Herring Pond, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US 4:45 PM – 5:00 PM

 

Mute Swan  2

Mallard  5

Surf Scoter  23

Pied-billed Grebe  1

Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  1

Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2

 

 

Fort Hill, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US. 5:30 PM – 5:45 PM

 

American Black Duck  3

Greater Yellowlegs  10

Laughing Gull  300

Double-crested Cormorant  300

Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  15

Great Egret  29

Snowy Egret  21

Black-crowned Night-Heron  1

Northern Harrier  2

Carolina Wren  3

 

 

Additional species seen during the day:

 

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  1

Greater Yellowlegs  1

Belted Kingfisher  1

American Black Duck  3

Red-tailed Hawk  1

 

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

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