Donna
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« on: 03-Oct-10, 10:34:41 PM » |
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Reports from the Parker River Refuge on Plum Island last week included two Northern shovelers, eight Northern pintails, two merlins, two peregrine falcons, two American golden-plovers, a stilt sandpiper, two Caspian terns, a yellow-bellied sapsucker, a Western kingbird, an Eastern kingbird, a blue-gray gnatcatcher, a Northern parula, a chestnut-sided warbler, and a black-and-white warbler. In Newburyport Harbor, there were 40 greater and 20 lesser yellowlegs, 250 Bonaparte’s gulls, and two Forster’s terns.
In Ipswich, a buff-breasted sandpiper was observed in the plowed fields along Northgate Road, and in Groveland, a hooded warbler and a pine siskin were found.
At Danehy Park in Cambridge, a Connecticut warbler and a lark sparrow were spotted. Reports from the Fenway area of Boston included a yellow-billed cuckoo and a Baltimore oriole.
Two American wigeons, eight blue-winged teal, a Northern shoveler, a Northern pintail, 35 green-winged teal, two pied-billed grebes, four pectoral sandpipers, two Wilson’s snipes, a lapland longspur, and four indigo buntings were observed at the Arlington Reservoir.
At Coast Guard Beach in Eastham, recent sightings included two Cory’s shearwaters, a manx shearwater, 25 Northern gannets, 30 common terns, and six parasitic jaegers.
(WHAT R THEY)? I'll google it! OK, it's a Skua.
In Wareham, two sandhill cranes were seen in the cranberry bogs along Tihonet Road.
Reports from Nantucket included 40 killdeer, an American golden-plover, 26 American oystercatchers, five marbled godwits, a clay-colored sparrow, and a yellow-headed blackbird.
Miscellaneous reports included an American bittern, a Virginia Rail, a peregrine falcon, and a Lincoln’s sparrow at Millennium Park in West Roxbury; 30 wood ducks and 25 chimney swifts at the Great Meadows Refuge in Concord; a Philadelphia vireo, a yellow-breasted chat, and a white-crowned sparrow at Nahant; a wood thrush in Marlborough; a lark sparrow at the Cumberland Farms fields in Halifax; six Nelson’s and 22 saltmarsh sparrows in Fairhaven; and a dickcissel at Wellfleet Bay Sanctuary in South Wellfleet.
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