Eastern Massachusetts RBA
April 28, 2008
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- RBA
* Massachusetts
* Eastern
* April 28, 2008
* MAEA0804.28
- Birds mentioned
Red-throated Loon
Turkey Vulture
Black Vulture
Peregrine Falcon
Willet
SCARLET TANAGER
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
White-winged Crossbill
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
WARBLING VIREO
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Pine Warbler
White-crowned Sparrow
American Bittern
Wild Turkey
HOUSE WREN
Brown Thrasher
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Northern Shoveler
LEAST SANDPIPER
Purple Martin
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
Fox Sparrow
Pileated Woodpecker
Black-throated Green Warbler
OVENBIRD
Green-winged Teal
Ruddy Duck
CHIMNEY SWIFT
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Palm Warbler
Savannah Sparrow
Cattle Egret
MANX SHEARWATER
Gadwall
PECTORAL SANDPIPER
American Oystercatcher
Northern Saw-Whet Owl
EASTERN KINGBIRD
Baltimore Oriole
Rusty Blackbird
Common Raven
Great Egret
Northern Goshawk
Yellow Warbler
GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER
Little Blue Heron
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Snow Goose
PRAIRIE WARBLER
CASPIAN TERN
Bald Eagle
Fish Crow
SUMMER TANAGER
RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD
- Transcript
hotline: Eastern Massachusetts
date: April 28, 2008
number: (781) 259-8805
to report: anytime day or night, 781-259-2148 (Simon Perkins)
compiler: Simon Perkins, Massachusetts Audubon Society
coverage: Eastern Massachusetts
transcriber: Barbara Volkle barb620@theworld.com
EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS -
This is the Voice of Audubon for Monday, April 28.
Weekend reports from Nantucket included 2500 RED-THROATED LOONS,
24 TURKEY VULTURES, 2 BLACK VULTURES, 1 PEREGRINE FALCON,
8 WILLETS, 1 SCARLET TANAGER, 1 PROTHONOTARY WARBLER,
1 ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK, AND 12 WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS,
and seen in Provincetown were 1 YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, 1
WARBLING VIREO, 5 BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHERS, 33 PINE
WARBLERS, and 1 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW.
A report from Spencer included an AMERICAN BITTERN, 24 WILD
TURKEYS, 2 HOUSE WRENS, 6 BROWN THRASHERS, 58 YELLOW-
RUMPED WARBLERS, 1 BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER, 2 NORTHERN
WATERTHRUSHES, 1 LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH, 80 CHIPPING
SPARROWS, 7 FIELD SPARROWS, and 17 SWAMP SPARROWS, and
weekend reports from the Newburyport/Plum Island area included 1
NORTHERN SHOVELER, 4 LEAST SANDPIPERS, 4 PURPLE MARTINS,
15 RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS, 11 HERMIT THRUSHES, and 1 FOX
SPARROW.
At Wompatuck State Park in Hingham there were 2 PILEATED WOOD-
PECKERS, 12 HERMIT THRUSHES, and 6 species of wood warblers
including BLACK-THROATED GREEN, BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER,
and OVENBIRD, and seen at the Arlington Reservoir were 4 GREEN-WINGED
TEAL, 1 RUDDY DUCK, 10 CHIMNEY SWIFTS, 25 TREE SWALLOWS,
1 NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOW, 3 HOUSE WRENS, 65
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS, 4 PALM WARBLERS, and 21
SAVANNAH SPARROWS.
Miscellaneous reports from the weekend included 2 CATTLE EGRETS
in Ipswich, a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER at Ells Pond in Melrose, 2
MANX SHEARWATERS at Revere Beach, 2 GADWALL and 1 PECTORAL
SANDPIPER at Belle Isle marsh in East Boston, 6 AMERICAN OYSTER-
CATCHERS at Logan Airport, a NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL at Post
Office Square in Boston, an EASTERN KINGBIRD at the Forest Hills
Cemetery in Mattapan, a BALTIMORE ORIOLE in Belmont, 18 NORTHERN
ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOWS and a RUSTY BLACKBIRD at Millennium
Park in West Roxbury, a COMMON RAVEN elsewhere in West Roxbury, a
GREAT EGRET in Lincoln, a NORTHERN GOSHAWK in Carlisle, a YELLOW
WARBLER and a BALTIMORE ORIOLE in Norton, a GREAT CRESTED
FLYCATCHER at World's End in Hingham, a LITTLE BLUE HERON and a
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL in Duxbury, a SNOW GOOSE and a
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW at the Daniel Webster sanctuary in Marshfield,
a PRAIRIE WARBLER in Fall River, 2 CASPIAN TERNS at Plymouth
Beach, 26 WILLETS in Falmouth, 2 BALD EAGLES, 9 FISH CROWS, and
3 PURPLE MARTINS in Mashpee, a SUMMER TANAGER in Yarmouth,
and RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRDS in South Dartmouth, Fall
River, Brewster, and Newburyport.
Thank you for calling.
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