Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Scituate to Plymouth - 2/9/2014



  The Brookline and South Shore Bird Clubs had a wonderful trip which began in snow. We had some misses (Red-throated Loon, Harlequin Duck), but also had remarkable good fortune in locating some more difficult species. For example, despite not being able to locate a Red-necked Grebe at North Scituate, we had 6 flyby Snow Buntings. We began with eight and ended with four. We ended up with 77 species, more than normal.

Iceland Gull
Herring & Ring-billed Gulls
NOTE: One person drove by us in Marshfield and claimed a Three-toed Woodpecker coming to their feeder; description suggested maybe the sapsucker we had. We explained some images should be taken.

29 Brant (Atlantic)
867 Canada Goose
7 Mute Swan
40 Gadwall
10 American Wigeon - Forge Pond, Plymouth
318 American Black Duck
399 Mallard
50 American Black Duck/Mallard
3 Northern Pintail - Cumberland Farm Field, Middleboro
4 Ring-necked Duck
1 Lesser Scaup - Jenny's Pond, Plymouth
485 Common Eider (Atlantic)
40 Surf Scoter
225 White-winged Scoter
11 Black Scoter - N. Scituate
25 Surf/Black Scoter
3 Long-tailed Duck
75 Bufflehead
31 Common Goldeneye
1 Barrow's Goldeneye - Drake; Riverside Cir., Marshfield
7 Hooded Merganser
1 Common Merganser - Jenny's Pond - Plymouth
45 Red-breasted Merganser
2 Wild Turkey - Jenny's Pond, Plymouth
9 Common Loon
1 Horned Grebe - very low
64 Great Cormorant
1 Great Blue Heron
3 Northern Harrier
1 Cooper's Hawk
1 Bald Eagle - Adult; Riverside Cir., Marshfield
1 Red-shouldered Hawk
6 Red-tailed Hawk
1 Dunlin - Plymouth Harbor
55 Purple Sandpiper - N. Scituate
154 Ring-billed Gull
211 Herring Gull (American)
2 Iceland Gull (Kumlien's) - 1 Plymouth Harbor, 1 Scituate Harbor
47 Great Black-backed Gull
82 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
25 Mourning Dove
3 Great Horned Owl - Cumberland Farm field, Middleboro
3 Snowy Owl - 2, Cumberland Farm field, Middleboro; 1 Plymouth Beach
5 Short-eared Owl - Cumberland Farm field, Middleboro
1 Belted Kingfisher
3 Red-bellied Woodpecker
1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Spring St., Marshfield
7 Downy Woodpecker
4 Hairy Woodpecker
8 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)
1 Peregrine Falcon - Plymouth Harbor
9 Blue Jay
15 American Crow
50 Horned Lark
19 Black-capped Chickadee
16 Tufted Titmouse
9 White-breasted Nuthatch
1 Brown Creeper
6 Carolina Wren 
1 Golden-crowned Kinglet
5 Eastern Bluebird
1 Hermit Thrush
 
44 American Robin
1 Northern Mockingbird
121 European Starling
3 Lapland Longspur - Cumberland Farm field, Middleboro
6 Snow Bunting - N. Scituate
9 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
13 American Tree Sparrow
2 Savannah Sparrow - Cumberland Farm field, Middleboro
17 Song Sparrow
2 Swamp Sparrow
7 White-throated Sparrow
12 Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)
15 Northern Cardinal
13 Eastern Meadowlarks - Cumberland Farm field, Middleboro
150 Red-winged Blackbird
3 House Finch
27 American Goldfinch
26 House Sparrow
 

This trip summary was created using the BirdLog app for iPhone and iPad.
See BirdLog for more information.

Glenn d"Entremont

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