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The Key Wildlife Observation Area, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US
Aug 17, 2018 7:50 AM – 8:30 AM
Protocol: Stationary
Comments:     Overcast, 72 degrees, dropping tide. Co-led BBC walk.
22 species

Mallard  1
Chimney Swift  1
Black-bellied Plover  3
Semipalmated Plover  22
Killdeer  7
Sanderling  3
Least Sandpiper  15
White-rumped Sandpiper  2
Semipalmated Sandpiper  23
Greater Yellowlegs  5
Lesser Yellowlegs  15
Ring-billed Gull  3
Herring Gull  7
Great Blue Heron  6
Great Egret  22
Snowy Egret  30
Osprey  2
Tree Swallow  10
Barn Swallow  1
American Robin  1
European Starling  150
House Sparrow  5

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48715432
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Winthrop Beach and Five Sisters, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US
Aug 17, 2018 8:45 AM – 9:20 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.2 mile(s)
Comments:     72 degrees, overcast, dropping tide.
10 species

Common Eider  1
Mourning Dove  2
American Oystercatcher  2
Laughing Gull  5
Ring-billed Gull  50
Herring Gull  65
Great Black-backed Gull  9
Double-crested Cormorant  72
American Crow  2
House Sparrow  5

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48715435

Fisherman’s Bend Park, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US
Aug 17, 2018 9:25 AM – 9:45 AM
Protocol: Stationary
Comments:     72 degrees, partly sunny, almost low tide.  Co-led BBC walk.
14 species (+1 other taxa)

American Oystercatcher  3
Black-bellied Plover  7
peep sp.  20
Greater Yellowlegs  7
Ring-billed Gull  6
Herring Gull (American)  31
Great Black-backed Gull  2
Common Tern  3
Double-crested Cormorant  5
Great Blue Heron  1
Snowy Egret  2
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  50
Song Sparrow  2
House Sparrow  25

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48715430

Revere Beach–Point of Pines, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US
Aug 17, 2018 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.2 mile(s)
Comments:     Mostly sunny, 76 degrees. Dead low tide.  Vast expanse of flats, but not too many shorebirds.  No BOGU’s.
10 species (+1 other taxa)

Black-bellied Plover  40
Semipalmated Plover  60
Sanderling  10
Least Sandpiper  5
Semipalmated Sandpiper  85
peep sp.  350
Laughing Gull  1
Ring-billed Gull  X     Spread out over so wide an area, too tough to count accurately.
Herring Gull  X     Spread out over so wide an area, too tough to count accurately.
Great Black-backed Gull  19     Probably more.
Common Tern  3

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48715426

North Shore Boat Works, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US
Aug 17, 2018 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Protocol: Stationary
Comments:     Sunny, 77 degrees, low tide.  Co-led BBC walk.
10 species (+3 other taxa)

Black-bellied Plover  9
Semipalmated Plover  15
Killdeer  2
Semipalmated Sandpiper  4
peep sp.  30
Herring Gull  14
Herring Gull (American)  6
Common Tern  1
cormorant sp.  3
Great Blue Heron  6
Great Egret  10
Snowy Egret  8
Osprey  3

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48715421

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