Plymouth Beach, Plymouth, Massachusetts, US
Jul 27, 2019 6:30 AM – 11:15 AM
2.5 mile(s)
Comments:    SSBC/BBC trip, Glenn d’Entremont leader, 9 participants
46 species
Mute Swan  1
Mourning Dove  6
Chimney Swift  4
Black-bellied Plover  2
Semipalmated Plover  64
Piping Plover  28
Killdeer  1
Ruddy Turnstone  2
Sanderling  310
Least Sandpiper  1
Semipalmated Sandpiper  380
Short-billed Dowitcher  5
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Willet (Eastern)  6
Bonaparte’s Gull  1    2 sightings, might be 2 birds
Laughing Gull  100
Ring-billed Gull  50
Herring Gull (American)  X
Great Black-backed Gull  X
Least Tern  60
Common Tern  6
Common Loon  1
Double-crested Cormorant  10
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  6
Great Egret  1
Osprey (carolinensis)  7
Belted Kingfisher  1
American Crow  7
Horned Lark  1
Tree Swallow  85
Bank Swallow  45
Barn Swallow (American)  80
Black-capped Chickadee  2
Carolina Wren  2
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  6
European Starling  X
Cedar Waxwing  1
House Finch  6
American Goldfinch  2
Song Sparrow  21
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  2
Common Grackle  1
Yellow Warbler (Northern)  1
Northern Cardinal  2
House Sparrow  X
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