Eastern Massachusetts RBA
March 12, 2010
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:49:02 -0500
Reply-To: Barbara Volkle and Steve Moore <barb620@THEWORLD.COM>
Sender: "National Birding Hotline Cooperative (East)"
<BIRDEAST@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
From: Barbara Volkle and Steve Moore <barb620@THEWORLD.COM>
Subject: [BIRDEAST] RBA: Eastern MA 03/12/10
To: BIRDEAST@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Precedence: list
List-Help: <http://listserv.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/wa?LIST=BIRDEAST>,
<mailto:LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU?body=INFO BIRDEAST>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:BIRDEAST-unsubscribe-request@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:BIRDEAST-subscribe-request@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
List-Owner: <mailto:BIRDEAST-request@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
List-Archive: <http://listserv.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/wa?LIST=BIRDEAST>
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at email.arizona.edu
- RBA
* Massachusetts
* Eastern
* March 12, 2010
- Birds Mentioned
Greater White-fronted Goose
Wood Duck
Northern Harrier
Rough-legged Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Killdeer
Wilson's Snipe
Vesper Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Green-winged Teal
Peregrine Falcon
Snowy Owl
Northern Shrike
American Wigeon
Northern Pintail
Killdeer
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Lesser Scaup
Common Goldeneye
Bald Eagle
Ring-necked Duck
Hooded Merganser
Tundra Swan
Eurasian Wigeon
Red-necked Grebe
American Oystercatcher
Lapland Longspur
Red-headed Woodpecker
Barrow's Goldeneye
Northern Saw-Whet Owl
Short-eared Owl
American Woodcock
- Transcript
hotline: Eastern Massachusetts
date: March 12, 2010
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 Friday, March 12.
A GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was noted in the fields off Walnut
Street in Halifax, and seen nearby at the Cumberland Farms fields in
Middleboro
were 12 WOOD DUCKS, 5 NORTHERN HARRIERS, 3 ROUGH-LEGGED
HAWKS, 1 RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, 2 KILLDEER, 1 WILSON'S
SNIPE, 1 VESPER SPARROW, and 7 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS.
Reports from Plum Island this week included 70 GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 1
PEREGRINE FALCON, 1 SNOWY OWL, and 1 NORTHERN SHRIKE,
and at Bolton Flats there were 3 WOOD DUCKS, 2 AMERICAN WIGEON,
9 NORTHERN PINTAILS, 48 GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 3 KILLDEER, 45
RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS, and 550 COMMON GRACKLES.
In Sudbury there were 7 AMERICAN WIGEON, 2 LESSER SCAUP, 30
COMMON GOLDENEYES and 1 BALD EAGLE, seen at Nine-acre-corner
in Concord were 2 NORTHERN PINTAILS, 2 AMERICAN WIGEON, 42
GREEN-WINGED TEAL, and 3 KILLDEER, and reports from Great Meadows
National Wildlife Refuge in Concord included 3 WOOD DUCKS, 45 RING-
NECKED DUCKS, and 15 HOODED MERGANSERS.
Seen at Nantucket this week were 2 TUNDRA SWANS, 1 EURASIAN
WIGEON, 225 RED-NECKED GREBES, 2 AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS,
and a LAPLAND LONGSPUR, and miscellaneous reports included 2 RED-
HEADED WOODPECKERS in Lowell, 15 WOOD DUCKS at the Ipswich
River sanctuary in Topsfield, 2 BARROW'S GOLDENEYES on the Assabet
River just south of the intersection of Rts. 62 and 117 in Maynard, a
NORTHERN
SAW-WHET OWL in Sharon, a KILLDEER in Easton, a BALD EAGLE and
a NORTHERN HARRIER in Hanson, a SHORT-EARED OWL at Duxbury
Beach, a KILLDEER in Mashpee, and AMERICAN WOODCOCKS at Plum
Island, Fresh Pond in Cambridge, Braintree, Sharon, and West
Bridgewater.
Have a good weekend and thank you for calling.
- End Transcript
For Birdeast archives, and to join, leave, or change address, see:
http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/birdeast.html