Plymouth Beach, Plymouth, Massachusetts, US
May 28, 2017 6:30 AM – 10:45 AM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
Comments: SSBC/BBC/FMSSF/Paskamansett trip More terns than last year, but obviously still an issue with predators. At least one nest of Herring and Great Black-backed. Few shorebirds as well. Lovely walk still.
43 species
Brant (Atlantic) 1
Canada Goose 5
Mute Swan 2
Mallard (Northern) 8
Double-crested Cormorant 20
Great Blue Heron (Blue form) 4
Osprey (carolinensis) 3
Black-bellied Plover 5
Piping Plover 23 2 young; recent storm caused high water and nest damage of both plover and Least Tern. Saw eggs on plover in wet rack and at least one plover displaying as another nesting attempt.
Ruddy Turnstone 2
Sanderling 4
Semipalmated Sandpiper 2
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Willet (Eastern) 8
Laughing Gull 50
Ring-billed Gull 25
Herring Gull (American) X 1 nest at least; this is not good for the terns
Great Black-backed Gull X 2 nests, one on the channel marker and one in the colony; not good for the terns
Least Tern 75 widening the road the town limited another section used by Leasts
Common Tern (hirundo) 175
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) X
Mourning Dove 8
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 1
Willow Flycatcher 1
American Crow 4
Fish Crow 2 one high up and coming in from the ocean/bay ??
Horned Lark 3
Tree Swallow 10
Bank Swallow 10
Barn Swallow (American) 5
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 3
European Starling X
Common Yellowthroat 2
Yellow Warbler (Northern) 4
Saltmarsh Sparrow 1 surprised several of us who called it out together-clearly sang once only near the beginning of beach; near a small section of cattail
Song Sparrow 24
Northern Cardinal 1
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) 1
Common Grackle 21
Baltimore Oriole 1
House Finch 6
House Sparrow X
View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S37692091
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