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Location **Back Bay NWR
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Owner Tracy Tate

Effort

Protocol:  Stationary
  • Observers:  1

Checklist Comments

Wind 8ESE, 83F, mostly overcast by the end but some blue sky early. Seemed dead when I arrived but as usual the longer you watch the ocean the more you see! Walked out to beach from Visitor Center, spent almost all my time in one spot scanning water with scope amd binocs, then hoofed it down the beach and around to East Dike and to parking lot for my exercise!

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Totals

44
Species Observed
+2 other taxa, 443 individuals

Observations

  1. Mourning Dove

    Number observed:  3

  2. Yellow-billed Cuckoo

    Number observed:  1

  3. Whimbrel

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    Single distant bird viewed by scope above horizon in direct flight south

  4. Sanderling

    Number observed:  25

  5. Semipalmated Sandpiper

    Number observed:  13

  6. shorebird sp.

    Number observed:  3

    Details

    medium birds offshore fairly high flying directly north, thought they would be Black-bellied Plover but couldn't get details even with scope to ID

  7. Laughing Gull

    Number observed:  12

  8. Ring-billed Gull

    Number observed:  2

  9. American Herring Gull

    Number observed:  3

  10. Great Black-backed Gull

    Number observed:  9

  11. Lesser Black-backed Gull

    Number observed:  6

  12. Least Tern

    Number observed:  1

  13. Caspian Tern

    Number observed:  2

  14. Black Tern

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    smaller tern with black bill and slightly forked shorter tail, various amounts of
    black on head and underbody (must be in process of molting to winter plumage), definite dark ear patch,full cap and black on underbelly. Light underwing and undertail, light gray upper wings. Flew in from N and wondered if it had been sitting with the large group of larger terns I could barely see at Little Island end of forbidden zone. The bird associated briefly with other smaller terns feeding just offshore in front of me, and then flew solo directly south down the beach and out of sight.

  15. Forster's Tern

    Number observed:  8

  16. Common Tern

    Number observed:  11

  17. Sandwich Tern

    Number observed:  16

  18. Royal Tern

    Number observed:  43

  19. Northern Gannet

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    flying direct south just over water with slower heavy wingbeats, pointed head,
    wings and tail, younger bird, white head, white forward edge of wings, dark top of wings, white rump seen in scope, not a booby of any sort

  20. Double-crested Cormorant

    Number observed:  5

  21. White Ibis

    Number observed:  5

  22. Great Egret

    Number observed:  1

  23. Great Blue Heron

    Number observed:  1

  24. Brown Pelican

    Number observed:  20

  25. Turkey Vulture

    Number observed:  2

  26. Osprey

    Number observed:  7

  27. Cooper's Hawk

    Number observed:  1

  28. White-eyed Vireo

    Number observed:  1

  29. American Crow

    Number observed:  6

  30. Tree Swallow

    Number observed:  55

  31. Purple Martin

    Number observed:  32

    Details

    off the water and into shore, also in front of storm heading north on breeze, also high up in the storm clouds

  32. Barn Swallow

    Number observed:  9

  33. swallow sp.

    Number observed:  70

    Details

    estimate super high speck birds too high to call, probably many more up there

  34. Carolina Wren

    Number observed:  2

  35. Gray Catbird

    Number observed:  1

  36. Northern Mockingbird

    Number observed:  7

  37. American Robin

    Number observed:  2

  38. House Finch

    Number observed:  4

  39. American Goldfinch

    Number observed:  2

  40. Field Sparrow

    Number observed:  4

  41. Eastern Towhee

    Number observed:  4

  42. Red-winged Blackbird

    Number observed:  16

  43. Common Yellowthroat

    Number observed:  2

  44. Northern Cardinal

    Number observed:  9

  45. Blue Grosbeak

    Number observed:  7

  46. Indigo Bunting

    Number observed:  7