Plymouth Beach, Plymouth, Massachusetts, US
Jul 22, 2017 7:00 AM – 10:45 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
Comments:     SSBC/BBC/FMSSF trip, only 2 others showed from SSBC
47 species

Canada Goose  6
Mallard (Northern)  2
Common Loon  13
Double-crested Cormorant  8
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  6
Osprey (carolinensis)  5
American Oystercatcher  1
Semipalmated Plover  110
Piping Plover  20
Killdeer  1
Whimbrel  1
Ruddy Turnstone  1
Sanderling  50
Least Sandpiper  5
White-rumped Sandpiper  2
Semipalmated Sandpiper  1200
Western Sandpiper  1     ad, rufous fringe on black centered scapular, long thick based bill with droop at end-compared with SESA bill longer thicker at base and droop, legs longer
Short-billed Dowitcher  46
Greater Yellowlegs  8
Willet (Eastern)  18
Laughing Gull  100
Ring-billed Gull  1100
Herring Gull (American)  X
Great Black-backed Gull  X
Least Tern  70
Common Tern (hirundo)  9
Mourning Dove  9
Black-billed Cuckoo  1     flying low going north kept going did not appear to stop
Chimney Swift  2
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1
Eastern Kingbird  6
American Crow  8
Fish Crow  2
Horned Lark  3
Tree Swallow  4
Bank Swallow  2
Barn Swallow (American)  3
Gray Catbird  3
Northern Mockingbird  4
Common Yellowthroat  1
Yellow Warbler (Northern)  3
Song Sparrow  13
Northern Cardinal  1
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  5
Common Grackle  8
House Finch  6
American Goldfinch  1

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S38612776

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