World's End, Hingham - 4/13/2013

10 people came for the trip which was a good number considering how cold and windy it was in the morning. It warmed up a bit and the wind dropped by late morning when the trip ended. We got all the expected birds for this trip, except for Tree Swallow. They were in other places, but we didn't have any today. This trip (on this date) seems to miss Chipping Sparrow by about a week. Oystercatcher, both loons, all the herons and egrets on Sarah island, the yellowlegs, good numbers of woodpeckers and the migrating American Kestrels made today a fun early spring birding trip.

Wild Turkey 1

Red-throated Loon – 2
Common Loon – 1
Horned Grebe – 5
Double-crested Cormorant – 52
Great Blue Heron – 2
Great Egret- 12
Snowy Egret - 4
Black-crowned Night Heron – 3
Canada Goose - 15
Brant – 53
American Black Duck - 4
Bufflehead - 61
Red-breasted Merganser – 7
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 4

Red-tailed Hawk

American Kestrel – 4
American Oystercatcher - 1
Greater Yellowlegs – 7
Bonaparte's Gull - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 20
Herring Gull - 100
Great Black-backed Gull – 6
Belted Kingfisher – 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3
Downy Woodpecker - 4
Northern Flicker – 5
Eastern Phoebe – 4
Blue Jay - 16
American Crow -2
Black-capped Chickadee - 6
Tufted Titmouse - 11
White-breasted Nuthatch – 4
Carolina Wren -1
Golden-crowned Kinglet – 5
Eastern Bluebird – 1
American Robin - 15
Mockingbird – 1
European Starling
Song Sparrow - 5
White-throated Sparrow – 2
Northern Cardinal – 3
Red-winged Blackbird – 12
Common Grackle - 9
Brown-headed Cowbird - 6
American Goldfinch -2
House Sparrow - 3

*Photos by Steven Whitebread

Helen Cross