This was the best count in the 67 counts (first was 1946) with 118 on count day and two more count period birds! So many new highs on count number 67. Thanks to Liam Waters for providing these nice pictures.
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| Great Pond, Randolph/Braintree |
Brant 73
Canada Goose 2303 second highest
Mute Swan 17
Black Duck 403 Dropping like a stone, lowest since 1948! when effort was much less
Mallard 430
Green-winged Teal 14 high
Ring-necked Duck 64
Greater Scaup 374
Lesser Scaup 13
KING EIDER 1 (Hull)
Common Eider 2412
Surf Scoter 1247 NEW HIGH
White-winged Scoter 890
Black Scoter 134 second highest
scoter, species 308
Long-tailed Duck 609 NEW HIGH, 330 in 2011
Bufflehead 723
Common Goldeneye 143
BARROW'S GOLDENEYE 1 Drake(Squantum-this bird moves between UMass and Squantum)
Hooded Merganser 158 NEW HIGH, the first bird was in 1965
Common Merganser 62
Red-breasted Merganser 395
Ruddy Duck 52
Wild Turkey 56 TIED HIGH COUNT, first seen 1995
Red-throated Loon 70 NEW HIGH
Common Loon 69 NEW HIGH
Pied-billed Grebe 3
Horned Grebe 228 NEW HIGH
Red-necked Grebe 5 low
Northern Gannet 3
Double-crested Cormorant 13
Great Cormorant 300
Great Blue Heron 29
BALD EAGLE 1 only third time on day, first was 2005(fifth year-still dark feather in tail) Great Pond, Randolph
Northern Harrier 3
Sharp-shinned Hawk 5
Cooper's Hawk 12 NEW HIGH, first double digit count
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 46 NEW HIGH
American Kestrel CW (Squantum)
Merlin 1
Peregrine Falcon 2
KILLDEER 3 Squantum
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Ruddy Turnstone 33
Sanderling 18
Purple Sandpiper 66
Dunlin 17
Wilson's Snipe 1
LAUGHING GULL 1 Cohasset only about the fifth time
BLACK-HEADED GULL 1 Cohasset, "with" the Laughing. This bird was regular on this count in the late 60's and through the 70's with high count of 26 in 1972.
Bonaparte's Gull 7
Ring-billed Gull 1108
Herring Gull 1356
Iceland Gull 2
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL 1 Hingham third time
Great Black-backed Gull 239
THICK-BILLED MURRE 1 Hingham third time
Razorbill 24 NEW HIGH (20 in Quincy, probably off of Long Island)
Black Guillemot 14 high, 11 in Hull
Rock Pigeon 719
Mourning Dove 172
Eastern Screech-Owl 19 High
Great Horned Owl 5
Barred Owl 1
Belted Kingfisher 7
Red-bellied Woodpecker 50 NEW HIGH, first showed in 1991
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Downy Woodpecker 78
Hairy Woodpecker 9
Northern Flicker 45 NEW HIGH
Blue Jay 230
American Crow 269
Fish Crow 11
COMMON RAVEN 1 Hingham They nest inside the circle, but find one during the count!
Horned Lark 28
Black-capped Chickadee 335
Tufted Titmouse 197
Red-breasted Nuthatch 38
White-breasted Nuthatch 117
Brown Creeper 9 high
Carolina Wren 90 NEW HIGH
Winter Wren 4
MARSH WREN 1 Weymouth, this was reported as heard Sedge/Marsh, but in spot where Marsh was last two years
Golden-crowned Kinglet 22
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3
Eastern Bluebird 19
Hermit Thrush 7
American Robin 561
Gray Catbird 2
Northern Mockingbird 66
European Starling 3806 A far cry from the 100,000 which we used to count at the Fore River Bridge
AMERICAN PIPIT 1 Cohasset
Cedar Waxwing 56
BLUE-WINGED WARBLER 1 NEW TO COUNT
Orange-crowned Warbler 2
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| Orange-crowned Warbler |
YELLOW WARBLER 1 (you know the story) NEW TO COUNT
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| Yellow Warbler |
Yellow-rumped Warbler 13
PINE WARBLER 1
COMMON YELLOWTHROAT 1
Yellow-breasted Chat CW
Eastern Towhee 2
American Tree Sparrow 83
Field Sparrow 1 extremely low
Savannah Sparrow 5
Fox Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 199
Swamp Sparrow 8
White-throated Sparrow 157
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW 1
Dark-eyed Junco 493
Snow Bunting 3
Northern Cardinal 137
Red-winged Blackbird 41
EASTERN MEADOWLARK 1 Long Island first since 1997
House Finch 90
RED CROSSBILL 5 first since 1978
WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL 6 first since 1997
Common Redpoll 40
American Goldfinch 147
House Sparrow 1534 NEW HIGH, only two other counts with over 1000
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| Brown Creeper |
Glenn d'Entremont
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