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

Aug 3, 2024 6:30 AM – 10:30 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC trip, Glenn d’Entremont leader, 16 participants, trip began 7:00

53 species

Mallard  2    eclipse plumage male

American Black Duck  19

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  X

Mourning Dove  31

Chimney Swift  2

American Oystercatcher  3

Killdeer  2

Semipalmated Plover  4

Short-billed Dowitcher  5

Lesser Yellowlegs  4

Willet (Eastern)  3

Greater Yellowlegs  13

Least Sandpiper  10

Pectoral Sandpiper  1

Semipalmated Sandpiper  80

Laughing Gull  2

Ring-billed Gull  X

Herring Gull (American)  X

Great Black-backed Gull  X

Common Tern  2

Double-crested Cormorant  3

Black-crowned Night Heron  1

Snowy Egret  8

Great Egret  10

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  3

Osprey (carolinensis)  5

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2

American Kestrel  3    likely a family group; ad male, female, and young which kept (presumably) calling/begging

Peregrine Falcon  1

Eastern Kingbird  1

Blue Jay  1

American Crow  2

Black-capped Chickadee  3

Tufted Titmouse  2

Tree Swallow  2

Purple Martin  2    surprised this is not a rarity; my first in Squantum in 50 years

Barn Swallow (American)  15

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  1

House Wren  1

European Starling  X

Gray Catbird  2

Northern Mockingbird  6

American Robin  5

Cedar Waxwing  3

House Sparrow  X

House Finch  2

American Goldfinch  7

Saltmarsh Sparrow  5

Song Sparrow  8

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  2

Common Grackle  4

Yellow Warbler (Northern)  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S190384357

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