Great Meadows NWR--Concord Unit, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US Aug 15, 2024 5:28 PM - 8:02 PM Protocol: Traveling 2.233 mile(s) 33 species Canada Goose  4 Mute Swan  2 Wood Duck  31 Mallard  27 Mourning Dove  3 Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2 Virginia Rail  1 Lesser Yellowlegs  8 Black-crowned Night Heron  1 Great Blue Heron  8 Osprey  2 Cooper's [...]

Plymouth Harbor, Plymouth, Massachusetts, US Aug 15, 2024 1:40 PM - 2:26 PM Protocol: Traveling 7.184 mile(s) Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Whale Watch Trip on Capt Johns Whalewatch, Plymouth.  Part 1 Inner harbor 12 species Mallard  2 American Black Duck  1 Black-bellied Plover  1 Semipalmated Plover  15 Laughing Gull  6 Herring Gull  6 [...]

Parker River NWR--Hellcat Dike, Essex, Massachusetts, US Aug 14, 2024 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM Protocol: Traveling 0.25 mile(s) Checklist Comments:    Comfortable temps, some smoke haze, low 70's, hi tide at 7:50.  Led BBC's Evening With the Swallows walk. 35 species Canada Goose  40 Mallard  30    Probably many more in the distance Green-winged [...]

Squantum (please use more refined location), Norfolk, Massachusetts, US Aug 3, 2024 6:30 AM - 10:30 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) Checklist Comments:    BBC trip, Glenn d'Entremont leader, 16 participants, trip began 7:00 53 species Mallard  2    eclipse plumage male American Black Duck  19 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  X Mourning Dove  31 Chimney [...]

Gloucester Harbor, Gloucester US-MA 42.59607, -70.67375, Essex, Massachusetts, US Jul 27, 2024 8:35 AM - 12:16 PM Protocol: Traveling 59.939 mile(s) 18 species American Black Duck  32 Common Eider  13 Black Scoter  1    Heading out of harbor past breakwater Black Guillemot  1    Seen near Thatcher Island. Black alcid with white wing patches in [...]

Halibut Point SP, Essex, Massachusetts, US Jul 21, 2024 7:53 AM - 10:20 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.714 mile(s) Checklist Comments:    BBC - Halibut Point State Park, Rockport, Morning - Leader: Peter Van Demark - clear, hot, calm 34 species Mallard  4 Common Eider  37    Most in flock just off shore Mourning Dove  4 [...]

Rough Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary (Mass Audubon), Essex, Massachusetts, US Jul 20, 2024 7:00 AM - 8:55 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.774 mile(s) Checklist Comments:    BBC walk led by Davey Walters. 63-75°F, clear skies. Low tide 05:59, high tide 11:28. From Sawyer’s Island, we watched the tide come in, covering the banks of the creek and [...]

Great Meadows NWR--Concord Unit, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US Jul 18, 2024 6:56 AM - 9:52 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.4 mile(s) Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club- Great Meadows NWR - Leaders: Cris Van Dyke and Kathy Dia - The light rain subsided just before the walk, overcast but not too hot, 70's F. 43 species Canada [...]

Winchendon/Royalston, Birch Hill WMA, Worcester, Massachusetts, US Jul 13, 2024 6:45 AM - 10:30 AM Protocol: Traveling 3.5 mile(s) Checklist Comments:    BBC/Athol B&N club trip; Glenn d'Entremont & Ernie LeBlanc leaders, 5 participants 49 species Mourning Dove  8 Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  4 Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  4 Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  4 Northern Flicker [...]

Quabbin Reservoir--Gate 10, Hampshire, Massachusetts, US Jul 6, 2024 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) Checklist Comments:    SSBC/BBC trip, Glenn d'Entremont leader, 2 participants, rain shortened this section of walk, went to South Quabbin instead 17 species Wild Turkey  1 Broad-winged Hawk  1 Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1 Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1 [...]