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

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S146054927