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Location **Back Bay NWR
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Owner James Flynn

Effort

Protocol:  Traveling
  • Observers:  1
  • Distance:  2.09 mi

Checklist Comments

Area covered: walked the beach from the Visitors Center parking area south for about 2 miles.

Weather: overcast to variably cloudy, breezy, humid; upper 70s to mid 80sF

Submitted from eBird for iOS, version 2.0.122

Totals

40
Species Observed
+2 other taxa, 565 individuals

Observations

  1. Black-bellied Plover

    Number observed:  2

  2. Piping Plover

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    videoscoped

  3. Whimbrel

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    southbound fly-by, just offshore

  4. Spotted Sandpiper

    Number observed:  1

  5. Willet

    Number observed:  5

  6. Ruddy Turnstone

    Number observed:  2

  7. Sanderling

    Number observed:  150

  8. Least Sandpiper

    Number observed:  1

  9. Laughing Gull

    Number observed:  13

  10. Ring-billed Gull

    Number observed:  2

  11. American Herring Gull

    Number observed:  7

  12. Great Black-backed Gull

    Number observed:  2

  13. Lesser Black-backed Gull

    Number observed:  2

  14. gull sp.

    Number observed:  6

    Details

    HERG/LBBG type

  15. Least Tern

    Number observed:  1

  16. Common Tern

    Number observed:  22

    Details

    group of 10 & group of 12 heading south just offshore

  17. Forster's/Common Tern

    Number observed:  10

  18. Sandwich Tern

    Number observed:  1

  19. Royal Tern

    Number observed:  5

  20. Double-crested Cormorant

    Number observed:  1

  21. Snowy Egret

    Number observed:  1

  22. Brown Pelican

    Number observed:  13

  23. Turkey Vulture

    Number observed:  1

  24. Osprey

    Number observed:  8

  25. American Crow

    Number observed:  2

  26. Purple Martin

    Number observed:  185

    Details

    est, most lined up on utility wires near Visitors Center

  27. Northern Rough-winged Swallow

    Number observed:  1

  28. Barn Swallow

    Number observed:  78

    Details

    small groups of 4 -10 heading north along the dunes

  29. Cliff Swallow

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    swallow w/ pale beige rump; dark back & head; dark throat; pale underparts; short squared-off tail; I did not see the forehead (bird had just passed me when I got on it); northbound fly-by w/ a small flock of BARSs

  30. Carolina Wren

    Number observed:  3

  31. European Starling

    Number observed:  3

  32. Brown Thrasher

    Number observed:  1

  33. Northern Mockingbird

    Number observed:  2

  34. House Finch

    Number observed:  12

  35. Field Sparrow

    Number observed:  2

  36. Red-winged Blackbird

    Number observed:  7

  37. Common Grackle

    Number observed:  1

  38. Common Yellowthroat

    Number observed:  2

  39. Prairie Warbler

    Number observed:  1

  40. Northern Cardinal

    Number observed:  2

  41. Blue Grosbeak

    Number observed:  3

  42. Indigo Bunting

    Number observed:  1