Squantum (please use more refined location), Norfolk, Massachusetts, US
30-Jul-2023 06:30 – 09:30
Protocol: Traveling
0.5 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: BBC trip, Glenn d’Entremont leader, 10 participants
36 species
Mallard 5
American Black Duck 13
Green-winged Teal (American) 1
Mourning Dove 2
Chimney Swift 2
Killdeer 1
Least Sandpiper 30
Semipalmated Sandpiper 10
Short-billed Dowitcher 3
Solitary Sandpiper 1 flyover, kept calling could not locate
Greater Yellowlegs 25
Lesser Yellowlegs 4
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull (American) X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Double-crested Cormorant 3
Great Blue Heron (Great Blue) 2
Great Egret 12
Snowy Egret 4
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 1 juv, flushed from Squantum point park on beginning of right path from parking lot (must have been first person there), long legs dangling, gray brown with pale longish spots/markings, landed around bend in paved path so slowly moved around corner and bird standing-erect stance, short head with thick based short bill for night-heron, brown gray coloration
Osprey (carolinensis) 6 plus 5 young, always in earshot, were not quiet
Cooper’s Hawk 1
Blue Jay 1
American Crow 2
Barn Swallow (American) 15
European Starling X
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
House Sparrow X
American Goldfinch 1
Saltmarsh Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 4
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) 15
Common Grackle 50 took off from Squantum point park-roost?
Yellow Warbler (Northern) 2 one still singing at Squantum point park
Northern Cardinal 1
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