Morris Island, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US
Aug 11, 2018 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.25 mile(s)
Comments:     SSBC/BBC trip, Ernie L, 9 participants
22 species

Mourning Dove  3
American Oystercatcher  4
Least Tern  3
Osprey (carolinensis)  2
Cooper’s Hawk  1     juv
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1
Blue Jay  5
American Crow  2
Black-capped Chickadee  3
Tufted Titmouse  1
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  1
Carolina Wren  1
American Robin  4
Gray Catbird  2
House Finch  5
American Goldfinch  5
Chipping Sparrow  2
Song Sparrow  2
Eastern Towhee  1
Common Grackle  10
American Redstart  1     female or immature
House Sparrow  X

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48714741


South Beach, Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US
Aug 11, 2018 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
2.5 mile(s)
Comments:     SSBC/BBC trip, Ernie L, 9 paticipants
37 species

American Oystercatcher  10
Black-bellied Plover  500
Semipalmated Plover  800
Piping Plover  22
Whimbrel (Hudsonian)  2
Ruddy Turnstone  35
Red Knot  400
Sanderling  550
Dunlin  3
Least Sandpiper  5
White-rumped Sandpiper  2
Semipalmated Sandpiper  2100
Short-billed Dowitcher  100
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Willet (Eastern)  8
Parasitic Jaeger  4
Laughing Gull  1000
Ring-billed Gull  5
Herring Gull (American)  X
Great Black-backed Gull  X
Least Tern  2
Black Tern  2     ad
Roseate Tern  1500
Common Tern (hirundo/tibetana)  3000
Forster’s Tern  1     ad, head changing to winter plumage, mostly whitish with black eye mask, paler back than Common
Common Loon  1
Cory’s Shearwater  10
Great Shearwater  50
Sooty Shearwater  25
Manx Shearwater  3
Double-crested Cormorant  2500
Snowy Egret  2
Osprey (carolinensis)  1
Horned Lark  3
Tree Swallow  120
Bank Swallow  2
Barn Swallow (American)  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48715274


Forest Beach and Conservation Lands, Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US
Aug 11, 2018 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
0.25 mile(s)
Comments:     SSBC/BBC trip, Ernie L, 9 participants
13 species

Whimbrel (Hudsonian)  6
Least Sandpiper  5
Greater Yellowlegs  5
Willet (Eastern)  3
Lesser Yellowlegs  6
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  3
Great Egret  10
Snowy Egret  20
Osprey (carolinensis)  6
American Crow  1
Tree Swallow  5
Barn Swallow (American)  2
Gray Catbird  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48715270
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Pogorelc Sanctuary, Barnstable, Massachusetts, US
Aug 11, 2018 5:08 PM – 6:34 PM
Protocol: Stationary
Comments:     SSBC/BBC trip, Ernie L, 7 participants  High numbers of roosting birds in trees and bushes around the pond. View is accessed at the end of right trail at the split. As has been suggested by Peter Crosson, a quiet approach as to not  disturb the roost.
23 species

Wood Duck  4
Great Blue Heron  0
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  2
Great Egret  50
Snowy Egret  30
Little Blue Heron  1     Continuing. Photos.
Black-crowned Night-Heron  30
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron  4     2 juv, 2 2nd yr
Turkey Vulture  1
Osprey  0
Osprey (carolinensis)  3
Belted Kingfisher  1
Downy Woodpecker  0
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2
Eastern Phoebe  1
American Crow  3
Tree Swallow  10
American Robin  4
Gray Catbird  3
European Starling  34
Cedar Waxwing  3
American Goldfinch  3
Song Sparrow  1
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  2
Common Grackle  5
Common Yellowthroat  0
Yellow Warbler  0
Yellow Warbler (Northern)  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48715267

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