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Race Point Beach, Provincetown, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US

Jan 1, 2026 7:02 AM – 10:11 AM

Protocol: Traveling

4.259 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Race Point Beach walk. Leader Ray Bedard. No participants today most likely due to the snowy conditions. 

Temps ran at about 32 degrees the entire walk. Winds were very light. There was a little snow coming down at the beginning and end of the walk. 

Started at RPB and walked the beach to the lighthouse then followed the fire road out.

31 species (+1 other taxa)

American Black Duck  23

Common Eider (Dresser’s)  80

Surf Scoter  8

White-winged Scoter  125

Black Scoter  350

Long-tailed Duck  500

Red-breasted Merganser  8

Sanderling  15

Dunlin  55

Black Guillemot  1

Razorbill  8

Dovekie  2

Common Murre  3

Black-legged Kittiwake  1

Ring-billed Gull  2

American Herring Gull  200

Great Black-backed Gull  155

Glaucous Gull  1    Adult, pink legs, pale gray back and wings with white wing tips

Lesser Black-backed Gull  2

Iceland Gull  4

Iceland Gull (kumlieni/glaucoides)  3

Red-throated Loon  2

Common Loon  14

Northern Gannet  26

Great Cormorant (North Atlantic)  5

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Northern Harrier  1

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1

American Crow  2

Horned Lark  11

Snow Bunting  3

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S292254855

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th

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