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* August 12, 2005
* MAEA0508.12

- Birds mentioned
SEDGE WREN
CACKLING GOOSE
WILSON'S PLOVER
American Bittern
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Glossy Ibis
Barn Swallow
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Long-billed Dowitcher
Northern Waterthrush
Least Flycatcher
American Wigeon
Green-winged Teal
Blue-winged Teal
Greater Scaup
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Osprey
Northern Harrier
Clapper Rail
Black-bellied Plover
Piping Plover
Spotted Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
White-rumped Sandpiper
Red Knot
Dunlin
Stilt Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
American Woodcock
Wilson's Snipe
Tree Swallow
Hudsonian Godwit
Little Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Common Eider
White-winged Scoter
Horned Grebe
Greater Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Northern Gannet
Laughing Gull
Snowy Egret
Ruddy Turnstone
Black Tern

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hotline: Eastern Massachusetts
date: August 12, 2005
number: (888) 224-6444
to report: anytime day or night, 781-259-2148 (Simon Perkins)
compiler: David Larson, Massachusetts Audubon Society
coverage: Eastern Massachusetts
transcriber: Barbara Volkle barb620@theworld.com

EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS -

This is the Voice of Audubon for Friday, August 12.

Avian Highlights for the week included a SEDGE WREN and a CACKLING
GOOSE at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord and the
WILSON'S PLOVER at South Beach in Chatham.

Other sightings at Great Meadows included an AMERICAN BITTERN, 22
SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 42 KILLDEER, 6 GREATER YELLOWLEGS,
1 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 1 SOLITARY SANDPIPER, 7 SEMIPALMATED
SANDPIPERS, 16 LEAST SANDPIPERS, 2 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, 8
GREAT BLUE HERONS, 17 GREAT EGRETS, 3 GLOSSY IBISES, and
400 BARN SWALLOWS.

Notable sightings on the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge in the Greater
Newburyport area included an early adult BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER in
the Bill Forward Pool, 9 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS, 2 NORTHERN
WATERTHRUSHES and 1 LEAST FLYCATCHER. Other sightings on the
refuge included 1 AMERICAN WIGEON, 37 GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 3
BLUE-WINGED TEAL, 1 GREATER SCAUP, 2 BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-
HERONS, 22 GLOSSY IBISES, 3 OSPREY, 2 NORTHERN HARRIERS, 1
CLAPPER RAIL, 9 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 4 PIPING PLOVERS, 850
SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 42 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 108 LESSER
YELLOWLEGS, 2 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, 27 RUDDY TURNSTONES,
2800 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS, 127 LEAST SANDPIPERS, 49
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, 1 RED KNOT, 2 PECTORAL SAND-
PIPERS, 1 DUNLIN, 3 STILT SANDPIPERS, 540 SHORT-BILLED
DOWITCHERS, 1 AMERICAN WOODCOCK, and 2 WILSON'S SNIPE.

An estimated 100,000 plus swallows (mostly TREE SWALLOWS) were
observed massing over Woodbridge Island in Newburyport Harbor in the
evening. Other sightings from Newburyport Harbor included 135 BLACK-
BELLIED PLOVERS, 322 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, at least 4
HUDSONIAN GODWITS, 1540 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS, 47
SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS, 2 LITTLE GULLS, and 235
BONAPARTE'S GULLS.

A whale-watch trip out of Gloucester tallied sightings of 60 COMMON
EIDER, 1 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, 1 HORNED GREBE, 16 GREATER
SHEARWATERS, 6 SOOTY SHEARWATERS, 5 MANX SHEARWATERS,
12 NORTHERN GANNETS, 10 migrating SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS,
and 2 LAUGHING GULLS.

Reports from Nantucket include 2 SNOWY EGRETS, 7 GREAT EGRETS,
63 RUDDY TURNSTONES, 1 RED KNOT, 4 BLACK TERNS, and 1
LITTLE GULL.

Thank you for calling and have a great weekend.
- End transcript