Brookline Bird Club – America’s most active bird club!

Scituate Lighthouse, Plymouth, Massachusetts, US

Jul 16, 2026 7:41 AM – 10:18 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.372 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    25 C sunny 5 mph W wind

Tide was low and rising

19 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  10

Killdeer  1

peep sp.  25

Laughing Gull  40

American Herring Gull  21

Great Black-backed Gull  4

Bridled Tern  1    Continuing rarity seen for several minutes sitting on Museum Beach rock

Common Tern  17

Wilson’s Storm-Petrel  11

Double-crested Cormorant  105

Little Blue Heron  1    Midsized white heron with bicolor bill and greenish legs and feet

American Crow  1

Fish Crow  2

Barn Swallow (American)  4

European Starling  4

Northern Mockingbird  1

House Sparrow  10

House Finch  1

American Goldfinch  2

Song Sparrow  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S373501142

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