Eastern Massachusetts RBA
August 30, 2010
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- RBA
* Massachusetts
* Eastern
* August 30, 2010
- Birds Mentioned
Common Nighthawk
AUDUBON'S SHEARWATER
WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL
BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETREL
LONG-TAILED JAEGER
GREAT SKUA
SOUTH POLAR SKUA (possible)
BAR-TAILED GODWIT
Cory's Shearwater
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
American Oystercatcher
Whimbrel
Willet
Hudsonian Godwit
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
White-rumped Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Short-billed Dowitcher
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Black Tern
Roseate Tern
Forster's Tern
Greater Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Great Egret
Peregrine Falcon
Pectoral Sandpiper
Common Tern
Sandwich Tern
Parasitic Jaeger
Tree Swallow
Ruddy Duck
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Merlin
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Northern Waterthrush
Wilson's Warbler
American Bittern
Glossy Ibis
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
Red-necked Phalarope
SABINE'S GULL
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Pectoral Sandpiper
Wilson's Phalarope
Nashville Warbler
Dickcissel
Black Vulture
Chimney Swift
Little Blue Heron
Mourning Warbler
- Transcript
hotline: Eastern Massachusetts
date: August 30, 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 30.
Now is a great time to keep an eye out for Common Nighthawks
migrating
overhead during late afternoon and at dusk; for best results try to
pick an elevated
spot with good visibility of the northern horizon.
Among the initial highlights reported from a deepwater pelagic trip
to the
continental shelf edge over the weekend were AUDUBON'S SHEARWATER,
WHITE-FACED and BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETRELS, LONG-TAILED
JAEGER, GREAT SKUA, and a possible SOUTH POLAR SKUA. More details
will be forthcoming later in the week.
A BAR-TAILED GODWIT in fading breeding plumage was again reported
from South Beach over the weekend along with a CORY'S SHEARWATER,
800 BLACK-BELLIED and 750 SEMIPALMATED, and 2 PIPING PLOVERS,
47 AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS, 8 WHIMBRELS, 3WILLETS, 21
HUDSONIAN and 1 MARBLED GODWIT, 200 RUDDY TURNSTONES,
500 SANDERLINGS, 40 WHITE-RUMPED, 300 SEMIPALMATED,
and 250 LEAST SANDPIPERS, a DUNLIN, 250 SHORT-BILLED
DOWITCHERS, a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, a BLACK TERN,
650 ROSEATE TERNS, and a FORSTER'S TERN.
At North Beach in Chatham on Saturday, what was undoubtedly the same
Bar-tailed Godwit noted at South Beach was observed along with 200
GREATER
and 25 MANX SHEARWATERS, 15 GREAT EGRETS, a PEREGRINE
FALCON, 2 PIPING PLOVERS, 40 AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS, 30
WILLETS, 10 MARBLED GODWITS, a PECTORAL SANDPIPER, a
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, 3000 ROSEATE and 1000 COMMON
TERNS, 6 FORSTER'S TERNS, a SANDWICH TERN, 2 PARASITIC
JAEGERS, and 5000 TREE SWALLOWS.
Reports from the Parker River Refuge on Plum Island included a RUDDY
DUCK, a SHARP-SHINNED HAWK, a MERLIN, 3 PEREGRINE
FALCONS, a PHILADELPHIA VIREO, 2 RED-BREASTED NUT-
HATCHES, a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, and a WILSON'S
WARBLER.
Weekend reports from Nantucket included 2 AMERICAN BITTERNS, a
GLOSSY IBIS, a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, and 2 FORSTER'S
TERNS, and at Muskeget there was a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
and 177 BLACK TERNS.
A whale watching trip off Provincetown 400 GREATER SHEARWATERS,
15 MANX SHEARWATERS, 30 WILSON'S STORM-PETRELS, 80 RED-
NECKED PHALAROPES, a SABINE'S GULL, and 3 BLACK TERNS.
At Duxbury Beach a shorebird tally included 250 BLACK-BELLIED, 525
SEMIPALMATED, and 1 PIPING PLOVER, 28 WILLETS, 140 RUDDY
TURNSTONES, 17 RED KNOTS, 785 SANDERLINGS, 1100 SEMI-
PALMATED SANDPIPERS, a PECTORAL SANDPIPER, and 325
SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS.
Observed at the Cumberland Farms fields in the Halifax/Middleboro
over
the weekend were a WILSON'S PHALAROPE, a NASHVILLE WARBLER,
and 2 DICKCISSELS.
Miscellaneous reports included a BLACK VULTURE in Kingston; 325
migrating COMMON NIGHTHAWKS in Clinton and 19 in Lowell; 100
CHIMNEY SWIFTS in Southboro; a LITTLE BLUE HERON and 5 BUFF-
BREASTED SANDPIPERS from Martha's Vineyard; 3 FORSTER'S
TERNS at the Burrage Pond Wildlife Management Area in Hanson; and
a MOURNING WARBLER in Bradford.
- End Transcript
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