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Squantum (please use more refined location), Norfolk, Massachusetts, US

Aug 17, 2025 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.5 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC/SSBC/Boston Bird Festival trip; Glenn d’Entremont leader, 20 participants  Bird thought to be Black Tern needs to be reviewed looking at images taken as in poor light

44 species

Mallard  2

Common Eider (Dresser’s)  3

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  X

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1

American Oystercatcher  1

Killdeer  1

Semipalmated Plover  1

Short-billed Dowitcher  17

Wilson’s Phalarope  1    continuing, smaller than lesser yellowlegs and shorter, bill thin and long, black eye patch with line toward bill ahead of eye, white underparts, yellow legs, white rump, feeding by walking rapidly and picking off surface, back grayish and unmarked like adult non-breeding

Spotted Sandpiper  1

Lesser Yellowlegs  10

Greater Yellowlegs  60

Least Sandpiper  10

Semipalmated Sandpiper  500

Laughing Gull  1

American Herring Gull  X

Great Black-backed Gull  X

Forster’s Tern  1    tern with black eye patch and paler back and wings

Common Tern  4

Double-crested Cormorant  19

Snowy Egret  4

Great Egret  1

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  4

Red-tailed Hawk  1

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1

Eastern Phoebe  2

Blue Jay  1

Black-capped Chickadee  3

Barn Swallow (American)  2

Red-breasted Nuthatch  2

Carolina Wren  5

European Starling  X

Gray Catbird  16

American Robin  3

Cedar Waxwing  10

American Goldfinch  10

Saltmarsh Sparrow  2

Song Sparrow  4

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  2

Brown-headed Cowbird  10

Common Grackle  1

Common Yellowthroat  1

American Redstart  3

Northern Cardinal  4

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S268656264

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