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

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And the Winner Is... Congratulations to Kate McHugh, who has won the Migration Madness Membership Drive! Kate will receive their choice of a pair of binoculars or two tickets for one of our summer water

And the Winner Is…

And the Winner Is... Congratulations to Kate McHugh, who has won the Migration Madness Membership Drive! Kate will receive their choice of a pair of binoculars or two tickets for one of our summer water

And the Winner Is…

And the Winner Is... Congratulations to Kate McHugh, who has won the Migration Madness Membership Drive! Kate will receive their choice of a pair of binoculars or two tickets for one of our summer water

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