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North Beach, Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US
Aug 17, 2019 9:30 AM – 2:30 PM
Comments:    SSBC/BBC trip, Glenn d’Entremont leader, Ernie L, 20 participants
36 species (+1 other taxa)
Black-bellied Plover  15
Semipalmated Plover  25
Piping Plover  3
Ruddy Turnstone  5
Sanderling  20
Least Sandpiper  5
White-rumped Sandpiper  1
Semipalmated Sandpiper  20
Willet (Eastern)  1
Laughing Gull  150
Ring-billed Gull  X
Herring Gull (American)  X
Iceland Gull  1    continuing 1S bird, tertials/coverts extremely bleach and abraded with only shafts left on several feathers, so very white and bill pale/pink 7/8 to end and blackish tip
Great Black-backed Gull  X
Least Tern  1    imm
Black Tern  1
Roseate Tern  10
Common Tern  200
Sterna sp.  2000    so far out not to be IDd to species, but likely mostly commons, but the split between Common/Roseate impossible, likely 7/8 common
Cory’s Shearwater  25
Great Shearwater  500
Sooty Shearwater  10
Manx Shearwater  5
Brown Booby  1    One of the first birds seen on the foggy ocean side was a smallish sulid which showed continuous brown coloration on the upper parts and a brown looking chin throat upper chest and a clean demarcation to white (seen by one) or whitish underparts (seen by others).  The rump was the same color and we did see gannets today which in non adult plumage showed a pale/whitish rump and longer wing span.  The bird was in view for over a minute, but was hindered by foggy conditions which caused the bird to disappear as it flew away from us.
Independently several of us concluded it was a Brown Booby, likely the individual cruising around the western Atlantic with reports in Nova Scotia, Maine, New Hamphsire, and New York (via ebird).
There are reports from MA not in ebird; how many other reports from other states are not in ebird?
Northern Gannet  5
Double-crested Cormorant  50
Osprey (carolinensis)  3
Peregrine Falcon  1    not an adult, was on stones on shore, feeding on a juvenile tern, later seen chasing shorebirds
American Crow  2
Horned Lark  2
Purple Martin  4
Tree Swallow  2
Bank Swallow  1
Barn Swallow (American)  5
American Goldfinch  2
Song Sparrow  3
Baltimore Oriole  1    imm male, moving south and dropped into higher trees, flew off but Ernie called it back and the bird landed on a flag pole, orange infused blackish head, orange throat/upper chest, whitish lower chest and belly, orange vent
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S59136150
Forest Beach and Conservation Lands, Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US
Aug 17, 2019 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Whimbrel (Hudsonian)  4
Greater Yellowlegs  3
Willet (Eastern)  2
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  1
Great Egret  4
Snowy Egret  6
Glossy Ibis  5
Osprey (carolinensis)  4
Red-tailed Hawk  1    juv
Tree Swallow  5
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S59136157
Pogorelc Sanctuary, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US
Aug 17, 2019 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Chimney Swift  1
Double-crested Cormorant  10
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  1
Great Egret  68
Snowy Egret  24
Green Heron  1
Black-crowned Night-Heron  10
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron  5    2 adult, 3 juv
Osprey (carolinensis)  4
Belted Kingfisher  1    female
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2
Eastern Kingbird  4
Cedar Waxwing  2
Common Grackle  50
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S59136165

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