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Sagamore Circle, Bourne, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US
Oct 6, 2018
Protocol: Incidental
Comments:     SSBC/BBC trip, Ernie L, Susan H, 10 participants
1 species

Fish Crow  50     these birds just arriving from roost; apparently roost in on Martha’s Vineyard

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North Eastham brush dump, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US
Oct 6, 2018 7:15 AM – 9:45 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.5 mile(s)
Comments:     SSBC/BBC trip, Ernie L, Susan H, 10 particpants
40 species (+2 other taxa)

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  X
Mourning Dove  30
Lesser Yellowlegs  15
shorebird sp.  10
Turkey Vulture  1
Cooper’s Hawk  2
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Belted Kingfisher  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  3
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  4
Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  8
Empidonax sp.  1     compact gray, smallish flycatcher, too far and too brief to see any other aspects; likely a Least
Blue Jay  19
American Crow  2
Black-capped Chickadee  8
Tufted Titmouse  4
Red-breasted Nuthatch  5
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  2
Eastern Bluebird  6
Hermit Thrush  1
American Robin  30
Gray Catbird  5
European Starling  X
Cedar Waxwing  9
House Finch  4
Purple Finch (Eastern)  6
American Goldfinch  50
Chipping Sparrow  30
Field Sparrow  3
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  2
White-crowned Sparrow  1     imm
White-throated Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow  18
Eastern Towhee  9
Baltimore Oriole  3
Cape May Warbler  1
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Northern Cardinal  5
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1
Indigo Bunting  4
House Sparrow  X

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First Encounter Beach, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US
Oct 6, 2018 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.5 mile(s)
Comments:     SSBC/BBC trip, Ernie L, Susan H, 10 participants
16 species (+1 other taxa)

Brant (Atlantic)  3
American Black Duck  34
Green-winged Teal (American)  2
Common Eider (Dresser’s)  22
White-winged Scoter (North American)  75
scoter sp.  50
Black-bellied Plover  3
Semipalmated Plover  41
Sanderling  5
Dunlin  31
Semipalmated Sandpiper  7
Greater Yellowlegs  5
Laughing Gull  2
Common Tern (hirundo/tibetana)  4
Red-throated Loon  1
Double-crested Cormorant  7
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  8

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Herring Pond, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US
Oct 6, 2018 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM
Protocol: Stationary
Comments:     SSBC/BBC trip, Ernie L, Susan H, 10 participants
2 species

Mute Swan  2
Mallard  1

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High Head, Pilgrim Heights, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US
Oct 6, 2018 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Protocol: Stationary
Comments:     SSBC/BBC trip, Ernie L, Susan H, 10 participants
3 species

Western Kingbird  2     it’s been 45 years since I saw multiple WEKI in MA!  Olive-gray upper parts, dark eye, dark patch thru eye, dark large based bill, ashy gray throat, yellow lower breast, belly, and vent, blackish tail with white outer tail feathers, kingbird shape, flying from perch to perch catching insects
Tree Swallow  300
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  2

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Beech Forest, Provincetown, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US
Oct 6, 2018 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
0.75 mile(s)
Comments:     SSBC/BBC trip, Ernie L, Susan H, 10 participants
18 species

Double-crested Cormorant  16
Cooper’s Hawk  1
Belted Kingfisher  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2
Merlin  1
Blue Jay  2
Black-capped Chickadee  12
Tufted Titmouse  1
Red-breasted Nuthatch  3
Brown Creeper  2
Golden-crowned Kinglet  12
American Robin  2
Gray Catbird  1
Purple Finch (Eastern)  1
Common Grackle  40
Blackpoll Warbler  2
Northern Cardinal  1

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Race Point Beach, Provincetown, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US
Oct 6, 2018 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM
Protocol: Stationary
Comments:     SSBC/BBC trip, Ernie L, Susan H, 10 particpants
10 species

Common Eider (Dresser’s)  20
White-winged Scoter (North American)  7
Parasitic Jaeger  3
Laughing Gull  25
Common Tern (hirundo/tibetana)  200
Cory’s Shearwater  6
Northern Gannet  8
Double-crested Cormorant  35
Peregrine Falcon  1
Palm Warbler (Western)  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S49404465
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Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US
Oct 6, 2018 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
Comments:     SSBC/BBC trip, Ernie L, Susan H, 10 participants
25 species

Wild Turkey  3
Mourning Dove  2
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  4
Turkey Vulture  1
Belted Kingfisher  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1
Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2
Merlin (Taiga)  1
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Blue Jay  8
American Crow  7
Black-capped Chickadee  8
Red-breasted Nuthatch  4
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  3
Carolina Wren  2
Gray Catbird  1
House Finch  1
American Goldfinch  2
Song Sparrow  1
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  2
Common Grackle  2
Northern Cardinal  3

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S49404467

Fort Hill, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US
Oct 6, 2018 4:30 PM – 5:45 PM
Protocol: Stationary
Comments:     SSBC/BBC trip, Ernie L, Susan H, 10 participants
27 species (+2 other taxa)

Mallard  7
American Black Duck  50
Common Eider (Dresser’s)  50
Surf Scoter  15
White-winged Scoter (North American)  6
scoter sp.  100
Black-bellied Plover  2
Ruddy Turnstone  3
Long-billed Dowitcher  1     dumpy look, hump backed, “V” notch between back and neck, longer billed look than usual Short-billed, three others left un=IDd, but those looked brown backed in flight, but too far away
Short-billed/Long-billed Dowitcher  3
Greater Yellowlegs  30
Parasitic Jaeger  1
Laughing Gull  50
Ring-billed Gull  X
Herring Gull (American)  X
Great Black-backed Gull  X
Common Tern (hirundo/tibetana)  50
Northern Gannet  6
Double-crested Cormorant  1500
American Bittern  1
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  27
Great Egret  20
Snowy Egret  5
Northern Harrier  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
American Crow  8
Tree Swallow  30
Carolina Wren  1
Eastern Towhee  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S49404468

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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