Brookline Bird Club – America’s most active bird club!

Winthrop Beach and Five Sisters, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

Aug 11, 2026 9:13 AM – 11:29 AM

Protocol: Traveling

0.382 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club shorebird walk, about 30 people including leaders.

23 species

Common Eider  3

Mourning Dove  2

Chimney Swift  2

American Oystercatcher  3

Killdeer  11

Semipalmated Plover  307    Estimate

Piping Plover  1

Lesser Yellowlegs  10

Greater Yellowlegs  1

Sanderling  1

White-rumped Sandpiper  2

Least Sandpiper  1

Western Sandpiper  1    Seen by experienced birder, drooping bill redish scapular parts

Semipalmated Sandpiper  304    Estimated

Laughing Gull  10

Ring-billed Gull  45

American Herring Gull  13

Least Tern  6

Common Tern  32    Estimate

Double-crested Cormorant  595    Big raft

Peregrine Falcon  1

Purple Martin  1    Well seen by experienced birder

Northern Mockingbird  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S382558967

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