Belle Isle Marsh Reservation, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US
Sep 7, 2019 9:50 AM – 10:45 AM
Comments:    BBC walk.  Wind 10-25, 59 degrees, overcast, half tide and dropping.
8 species
Mallard  3
Mourning Dove  14
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Double-crested Cormorant  6
Great Egret  7
Snowy Egret  3
Osprey  1
European Starling  30
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S59632956
Winthrop Beach and Five Sisters, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US
Sep 7, 2019 11:05 AM – 12:02 PM
Comments:    BBC walk.  Wind gusting to 25, 63 degrees, sun starting to break through.  An hour before low tide.  A couple of beach walkers didn’t really disturb the birds.
15 species
American Black Duck  2
Common Eider  6
American Oystercatcher  3
Semipalmated Plover  8
Killdeer  6
Ruddy Turnstone  2
Sanderling  25
Least Sandpiper  2
White-rumped Sandpiper  2
Semipalmated Sandpiper  40
Laughing Gull  25
Ring-billed Gull  65
Herring Gull  25
Great Black-backed Gull  20
Double-crested Cormorant  28
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S59632963
Fisherman’s Bend Park, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US
Sep 7, 2019 12:15 PM – 12:35 PM
Comments:    BBC walk.  Low tide, no disturbance, almost no birds!  Wind dieting down, partly sunny, 66.
9 species (+1 other taxa)
Mourning Dove  2
Black-bellied Plover  2
Ruddy Turnstone  2
Laughing Gull  4
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  3
Great Black-backed Gull  1
Double-crested Cormorant  5
Accipiter sp.  1
Yellow Warbler  2
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S59632975
Revere Beach–Point of Pines, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US
Sep 7, 2019 12:40 PM – 1:05 PM
Comments:    BBC walk. Low tide just starting to rise, couple of beach walkers did not disturb the birds, mostly sunny, wind dieting down.
14 species
Mallard  2
Mourning Dove  2
Black-bellied Plover  6
Semipalmated Plover  3
Sanderling  49
Least Sandpiper  1
White-rumped Sandpiper  1
Semipalmated Sandpiper  3
Laughing Gull  2
Ring-billed Gull  32
Herring Gull  17
Great Black-backed Gull  8
Double-crested Cormorant  5
Osprey  1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S59632947

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Mt. Greylock

Mount Greylock Visitors Center 30 Rockwell Road, Lanesborough, MA, United States

This will be an exciting trip with the occasional surprise. Mourning Warbler has always been a specialty of this trip. Enjoy the warblers and other neotropical migrants we observed during spring migration. Co-sponsored by the South Shore Bird Club. This trip will end around 3 p.m. then reconvene for dinner and an evening trip to [...]

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Early Birders @ Belle Isle Marsh & Winthrop Area

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