Eastern Massachusetts RBA
March 19, 2010
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:00:13 -0400
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Subject: [BIRDEAST] RBA: Eastern MA 03/19/10
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- RBA
* Massachusetts
* Eastern
* March 19, 2010
- Birds Mentioned
TUFTED DUCK
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Fish Crow
Wood Duck
Green-winged Teal
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
American Coot
American Black Duck
Northern Pintail
Northern Harrier
Rough-legged Hawk
Fish Crow
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
TUNDRA SWAN
AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER
Killdeer
GREATER YELLOWLEGS
Glaucous Gull
Snowy Owl
WILSON'S SNIPE
Barrow's Goldeneye
Bald Eagle
PIPING PLOVER
American Bittern
EASTERN PHOEBE
Fox Sparrow
TREE SWALLOW
- Transcript
hotline: Eastern Massachusetts
date: March 19, 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 19.
A TUFTED DUCK that's been present at the James Turner Reservoir
between
Pawtucket, RI and Seekonk, MA was still there at least as recently as
Tuesday.
Other birds seen at the Reservoir included 12 RING-NECKED DUCKS, 21
LESSER SCAUP, 14 COMMON MERGANSERS, 37 RUDDY DUCKS,
and 2 FISH CROWS.
Seen at the Great Meadows National Wldlife Refuge in Concord were 53
WOOD DUCKS, 2 GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 16 RING-NECKED DUCKS,
17 BUFFLEHEAD, 6 COMMON GOLDENEYES, 4 HOODED MERGANSERS,
and 1 AMERICAN COOT, and a report from the Cumberland Farms fields
in Middleboro included 16 WOOD DUCKS, roughly 800 AMERICAN BLACK
DUCKS, 12 NORTHERN PINTAILS, 65 GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 3
BUFFLEHEAD, 6 NORTHERN HARRIERS, 1 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK,
5 FISH CROWS, 150 RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS, and 50 COMMON
GRACKLES.
At Nantucket this week there were 2 TUNDRA SWANS, 10 RUDDY DUCKS,
11 AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS, 2 KILLDEER, 1 GREATER
YELLOWLEGS, and 1 GLAUCOUS GULL, and miscellaneous reports
included a SNOWY OWL at Plum Island, 3 KILLDEER and 3 WILSON'S
SNIPE off Scotland Road in Newbury, an AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER
in Winthrop, 2 BARROW'S GOLDENEYES on the Assabet River just south
of the intersection of Rts. 62 and 117 in Maynard, 2 BALD EAGLES at
the
Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge in Maynard, a PIPING PLOVER at
Duxbury Beach, an AMERICAN BITTERN and a GREATER YELLOWLEGS
in Harwich, an EASTERN PHOEBE in West Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard,
FOX SPARROWS in Salisbury, Cambridge, Duxbury, and Seekonk, and
TREE SWALLOWS in South Boston, Concord, Duxbury, West Bridgewater,
and Harwich.
Have a good weekend and thank you for calling.
- End Transcript
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