Bare Cove Park - Hingham 4/26/2015

The South Shore Bird Club's April 26, 2015 walk at Bare Cove Park in
Hingham was led by Kathy Rawdon with temps. starting out in the high
40's. There were 13 participants who covered approximately 3 miles
distance through swamp, pine, open field and river edge habitat.

Pine Warblers (male & female)

  The highlights for migratory birds were the Hermit Thrush, Pine, Palm,
Yellow-rump Warblers and Blue gray Gnatcatchers. We had four species of
woodpeckers and ospreys on their nest. A Greater Yellowlegs flew along
the river. There were still some lingering Red-breasted Mergansers.

Old Red-eyed Vireo nest

*Thanks to Steven Whitebread for providing these fine pictures.

45 species

Canada Goose  6

American Black Duck  2

Mallard  2

Bufflehead  3

Red-breasted Merganser  3

Double-crested Cormorant  45

Great Egret  1

Snowy Egret  3

Osprey  2

Red-tailed Hawk  1

Greater Yellowlegs  1

Herring Gull (American)  12

Great Black-backed Gull  1

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  1

Mourning Dove  6

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Downy Woodpecker  5

Hairy Woodpecker  1

Blue Jay  5

American Crow  8

Fish Crow  1

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  1

Tree Swallow  2

Barn Swallow  1

Black-capped Chickadee  13

Tufted Titmouse  8

White-breasted Nuthatch  2

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  3

Hermit Thrush  1

American Robin  15

European Starling  2

Palm Warbler  3

Pine Warbler  3

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  1

Eastern Towhee  6

Chipping Sparrow  14

Song Sparrow  7

White-throated Sparrow  1

Northern Cardinal  9

Red-winged Blackbird  3

Common Grackle  5

Brown-headed Cowbird  8

House Finch  2

American Goldfinch  6

House Sparrow  11
 

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)

Kathy Rawdon