” Practically as magnificent,” was a group of 4 trumpeter swans in Uxbridge, according to the Mass Audubon.
Bristol County: 2 little gulls and a sticking around laughing gull in Westport Harbor, a higher yellowlegs in Dartmouth and a flock of 16 red crossbills in the Freetown-Fall River State Forest.
Berkshire County: A babbling goose at Baldwin Hill in Egremont and 12 red crossbills in New Marlborough. In Pittsfield, 2 canvasbacks at Onota Lake and an Iceland gull at Pontoosuc Lake.
Cape Cod: Countless Dovekies, typical murres, razorbills, Northern gannets, black-legged kittiwakes and “considerably lower” varieties of other types at the “significant seabird flight” that occurred recently, according to the Mass Audubon. Anybody along the Cape Cod bay coast “would unquestionably have actually seen huge numbers” of the types in this group as they worked their method north out the bay. Other sightings consisted of 4 tundra swans at Clapps Pond in Provincetown, a late blue-winged teal in Marstons Mills, a number of Cory’s shearwaters in the beginning Encounter Beachin Eastham, a little gull at Race Point Beach, a terrific egret in Chatham and “a number of” remaining chuckling gulls at “scattered areas,” according to the Mass Audubon. In Yarmouth, 17 red crossbills near the Bass River Rod & & Weapon Club and 2 terrific egrets at Hallets Mill Pond.
Essex County: Great deals of the southward-moving seabirds, consisting of 4,250 Dovekies, 652 Typical Murres, 2 thick-billed Murres, a single Red Phalarope and an Atlantic puffin at Andrews Point in RockportOther sightings consisted of a livestock egret at the Allyn Cox Appointment in Essex, 2 terrific egrets in Marblehead, a terrific egret in Danvers, a continuing redhead at Cherry Hill Tank in West Newbury, a loggerhead shrike at the Bear Creek Wildlife Sanctuary in Saugus, a continuing red-headed woodpecker at Appleton Farms in Ipswich and a continuing, “extremely late” Veery at Plum Island
Franklin County: A Rufous hummingbird at a feeder in Millers Falls, a red-throated crazy at Quabbin Tank’s gate 31 in New Salem, and 8 red crossbills in Whatley.
Hampden County: An immature golden eagle at the Fannie Stebbins Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary in Longmeadow.
Hampshire County: A higher white-fronted goose at the University of Massachusetts Amherst school pond, a continuing higher white-fronted goose at the Paradise Pond on Smith College, 5 black vultures in flight over Hadley, a white-crowned sparrow in Hatfield and a sticking around Baltimore oriole at the Alexandra Dawson Sanctuary.
Martha’s Vineyard: 2 clay-colored sparrows at Gay Head.
Middlesex County: A tundra swan and a Bonaparte’s gull at the Great Meadows National Wildlife Sanctuary in Concord, a red-throated crazy at Horn Pond in Woburn; a continuing redhead, a Nashville warbler and an orange-crowned warbler at the Arlington Tank, single orange-crowned warblers in Natick and at Publication Beach park in Cambridge, a Wilson’s warbler at the Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in Lincoln and a lower black-backed gull at the Amelia Earhart Dam in Everett.
Norfolk County: A Barrow’s goldeneye at Great Pond in Randolph and a number of late warblers at the Charles River Peninsula in Needham, consisting of a Nashville warbler, a Tennessee warbler and a blackpoll warbler.
Plymouth County: A Few Of the exact same birds observed on the southward-moving flight, most especially 2,483 Dovekies near the mouth of Scituate Harbor and a single storm-driven thick-billed murre at Damons Point in Marshfield. Little numbers of Dovekies at Manomet Point.
Suffolk County: A continuing Townsend’s warbler and a late Northern parula at Boston’s Public Garden, a snow goose in Franklin Park and a tardy Lincoln’s sparrow at The Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway.
Worcester County: Twelve night grosbeaks in Shrewsbury and 4 trumpeter swans at the West Hill Dam in Uxbridge, which are no doubt young. The swans are gotten in touch with the Great Lakes location, where there is an effort to bring back historical breeding populations.
For additional information about bird sightings or to report bird sightings, call Mass Audubon at 781-259-8805 or go to www.massaudubon.org
Isabela Rocha can be reached at [email protected].
