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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