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Belle Isle Cemetery and Winthrop Compost Dump, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

Oct 19, 2025 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.5 mile(s)

27 species

Canada Goose  4

Mallard  3

American Black Duck  3

White-winged Scoter  1

Bonaparte’s Gull  1

Double-crested Cormorant  145    Multiple flocks heading towards airport

Great Egret  6

Great Blue Heron  2

Cooper’s Hawk  4

Northern Harrier  1

Red-shouldered Hawk  1    Member of group observed crescents on wings

Downy Woodpecker  1

Blue Jay  6

American Crow  3

Black-capped Chickadee  1

Tree Swallow  26    Hanging around a nest box in meadow across the channel; also over the key and cemetery

Golden-crowned Kinglet  1

Carolina Wren  2

Northern Mockingbird  1

American Robin  4

House Finch  3

Savannah Sparrow  6

Song Sparrow  6

Swamp Sparrow  5

Red-winged Blackbird  2

Yellow-rumped Warbler  2

Northern Cardinal  4

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S280993047

Winthrop Beach and Five Sisters, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

Oct 19, 2025 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM

Protocol: Traveling

0.5 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC Bird Walk

10 species

Common Eider  6

American Oystercatcher  1

Semipalmated Plover  1

American Herring Gull  25

Great Black-backed Gull  2

Common Loon  6

Double-crested Cormorant  35

Horned Lark  10    Scurrying In wrack line by water

Lapland Longspur  1    Hanging with Horned larks in front of 2nd sister from left in rack line

Savannah Sparrow  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S280993038

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