Plymouth Beach, Plymouth, Massachusetts, US
May 26, 2019 6:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Comments:    SSBC/BBC/Paskamansett/FMSSF, Glenn d’Entremont leader, 20 participants
41 species
Brant (Atlantic)  8
Mute Swan  5
Mallard  6
Black Scoter  1    imm male
Mourning Dove  5
Black-bellied Plover  16
Semipalmated Plover  32
Piping Plover  23
Ruddy Turnstone  16
Sanderling  25
Dunlin  11
Least Sandpiper  3
Semipalmated Sandpiper  200
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Willet (Eastern)  12
Bonaparte’s Gull  2    1S
Laughing Gull  50
Ring-billed Gull  20    19 1S, 1 2S
Herring Gull (American)  X
Great Black-backed Gull  X
Least Tern  30
Common Tern (hirundo/tibetana)  2    so sad; 50 years ago there were 20000
Common Loon  3
Double-crested Cormorant  15
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  1
Osprey (carolinensis)  6
American Crow  5
Horned Lark  3
Tree Swallow  8
Bank Swallow  15
Barn Swallow (American)  1
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  X
House Finch  3
Song Sparrow  13
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  1
Common Grackle  15
Common Yellowthroat  1
Yellow Warbler (Northern)  1
House Sparrow  X
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