Eastern Massachusetts RBA
August 23, 2010
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- RBA
* Massachusetts
* Eastern
* August 23, 2010
- Birds Mentioned
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Peregrine Falcon
American Golden-Plover
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Royal Tern
Nelson's Sparrow
Dickcissel
Pied-billed Grebe
Long-billed Dowitcher
Forster's Tern
Laughing Gull
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Marbled Godwit
GULL-BILLED TERN
Upland Sandpiper
Black-billed Cuckoo
Yellow Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Northern Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Piping Plover
Western Sandpiper
Wilson's Phalarope
Common Raven
Seaside Sparrow
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
American Oystercatcher
Willet
Hudsonian Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Black Tern
Roseate Tern
Common Tern
Green-winged Teal
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Cory's Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
Northern Gannet
Red-necked Phalarope
ATLANTIC PUFFIN
Cape May Warbler
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Parasitic Jaeger
Mississippi Kite
Common Nighthawk
Chuck-will's-widow
- Transcript
hotline: Eastern Massachusetts
date: August 23, 2010
number: (781) 259-8805
to report: anytime day or night, 781-259-2178 (Wayne Petersen)
compiler: Wayne Petersen, Massachusetts Audubon Society
coverage: Eastern Massachusetts
transcriber: Barbara Volkle barb620@theworld.com
EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
This is the Voice of Audubon for Monday, August 23
Birders looking for shorebirds should specifically be on the lookout
for some of
the less common and late-arriving species such as American
Golden-Plover,
Western Sandpiper, Baird's Sandpiper, and Buff-breasted
Sandpiper. In addition
to watching for shorebirds, keep an eye out for Common Nighthawks
migrating
overhead during late afternoon and dusk. Try to pick an elevated
spot with good
visibility of the northern horizon. Also it's time to be looking for
migrating
warblers and other songbirds in coastal thickets and other
appropriate brushy areas.
At Sandy Point State Park at the south end of Plum Island a
SCISSOR-TAILED
FLYCATCHER present for over two weeks was still present over the
weekend,
and other reports from Plum Island this week included a
YELLOW-CROWNED
NIGHT-HERON, 3 PEREGRINE FALCONS, an AMERICAN GOLDEN-
PLOVER, 343 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, a BAIRD'S SANDPIPER,
a ROYAL TERN, a NELSON'S SPARROW, and a DICKCISSEL.
At Great Pond in Randolph observations included a PIED-BILLED GREBE,
a BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER, 4 FORSTER'S
TERNS, 3 LAUGHING GULLS, and 4 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES.
At Westport today a MARBLED GODWIT and a GULL-BILLED TERN were
seen at Horseneck Beach, and at Gooseberry Neck over the weekend
there
was an UPLAND SANDPIPER, a BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, 19 YELLOW
WARBLERS, a BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER, 2 NORTHERN
WATERTHRUSHES, and 44 COMMON YELLOWTHROATS were observed.
At Allens Pond Sanctuary in South Dartmouth reports included 31 GREAT
EGRETS, 77 SNOWY EGRETS, a LITTLE BLUE HERON, 7 PIPING
PLOVERS, a WESTERN SANDPIPER, a WILSON'S PHALAROPE, 5
FORSTER'S TERNS, 2 COMMON RAVENS, and a SEASIDE SPARROW.
At South Beach in Chatham weekend reports included 450 BLACK-BELLIED,
6 PIPING, AND 400 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 20 AMERICAN
OYSTERCATCHERS, 27 WILLETS, 21 HUDSONIAN AND 2 MARBLED
GODWITS, 200 RUDDY TURNSTONES, 325 SANDERLINGS, 40 WHITE-
RUMPED, 1000 SEMIPALMATED, and 300 LEAST SANDPIPERS, 350
SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS, 4 BLACK TERNS, 600 ROSEATE
TERNS, and 2100 COMMON TERNS.
Reports from Nantucket included 20 GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 23 AMERICAN
OYSTERCATCHERS, 2 HUDSONIAN GODWITS, a BAIRD'S SANDPIPER,
a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, 148 BLACK TERNS, and 370 ROSEATE
TERNS.
A whale watching trip out of Newburyport to Jeffreys Ledge produced 2
CORY'S SHEARWATERS, 32 GREAT SHEARWATERS, 94 WILSON'S
STORM-PETRELS, 26 NORTHERN GANNETS, 4 RED-NECKED
PHALAROPES, 6 BLACK TERNS, 2 ATLANTIC PUFFINS, and a CAPE
MAY WARBLER.
A sea watch at Andrew's Point in Rockport this morning produced 11
CORY'S
SHEARWATERS, 23 GREATER SHEARWATERS, a SOOTY SHEAR-
WATER, 11 MANX SHEARWATERS, 500 NORTHERN GANNETS, 110
LAUGHING GULLS, 7 ROSEATE TERNS, 140 COMMON TERNS, and 3
PARASITIC JAEGERS.
Miscellaneous reports included 4 YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS
at Hemenway Landing in Eastham and another at the Cambridge Reservoir
in
Lexington, a MISSISSIPPI KITE in Orleans, a BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and
a BLACK TERN at Millennium Park in West Roxbury, 5 BLACK TERNS
at Hardy Pond in Waltham, 2500 ROSEATE TERNS at North Beach in
Chatham, 417 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS observed migrating in Leicester,
a CHUCK-WILL'S-WIDOW at Pochet Island in East Orleans, and 3
COMMON RAVENS in Brockton.
- End Transcript
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