- RBA
* Massachusetts
* Eastern
* August 29, 2005
* MAEA0508.29
- Birds mentioned
WILSON'S PLOVER
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Hudsonian Godwit
Marbled Godwit
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Forster's Tern
Black Tern
Black Skimmer
Ring-necked Duck
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Glossy Ibis
Common Moorhen
Western Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Wilson's Phalarope
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
CACKLING GOOSE
Great Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Northern Harrier
Least Sandpiper
SEDGE WREN
Cory's Shearwater
Greater Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Audubon's Shearwater
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
Leach's Storm-Petrel
Red-necked Phalarope
Red Phalarope
LONG-TAILED JAEGER
Tree Swallow
Peregrine Falcon
Merlin
Sora
Blackburnian Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Little Blue Heron
Semipalmated Plover
Red Knot
Long-billed Dowitcher
Common Tern
Snowy Egret
Virginia Rail
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Common Nighthawk
Philadelphia Vireo
American Robin
Indigo Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Wild Turkey
Dark-eyed Junco
- Transcript
hotline: Eastern Massachusetts
date: August 29, 2005
number: (888) 224-6444
to report: anytime day or night, 781-259-2148 (Simon Perkins)
compiler: Simon Perkins, Massachusetts Audubon Society
coverage: Eastern Massachusetts
transcriber: Barbara Volkle barb620@theworld.com
EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS -
This is the Voice of Audubon for Monday, August 29.
The WILSON'S PLOVER at South Beach in Chatham was still present over
the weekend as were 1 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, 25 HUDSONIAN
GODWITS, 3 MARBLED GODWITS, 1 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL,
3 FORSTER'S TERNS, 4 BLACK TERNS, and 1 BLACK SKIMMER, and at
South Monomoy Island in Chatham there were 12 RING-NECKED DUCKS, 12
RUDDY DUCKS, 1 PIED-BILLED GREBE, 8 GLOSSY IBISES, 1 COMMON
MOORHEN, 2 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, 2 WESTERN SANDPIPERS,
90 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, 2 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, 8 PECTORAL
SANDPIPERS, 8 STILT SANDPIPERS, 7 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS, 2
WILSON'S PHALAROPES, 2 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS, 2
FORSTER'S TERNS, 100 BLACK TERNS, and 1 YELLOW-BELLIED
FLYCATCHER.
The CACKLING GOOSE in Concord was seen again over the weekend at the
Great Meadows Refuge off Monsen Road and in the cow pasture on the north
side of the intersection of Barrett's Mill Road and Route 2. Other birds
seen over
the weekend at the Great Meadows Refuge included 3 GREAT EGRETS, a
BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON, 1 NORTHERN HARRIER, an
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, 2 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, 40 LEAST
SANDPIPERS, a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, and a SEDGE WREN.
On a boat trip on Saturday from Cape Cod to the Continental Shelf edge roughly
80-100 miles south of Nantucket birds seen included 5 CORY'S SHEARWATERS,
35 GREATER SHEARWATERS, 1 SOOTY SHEARWATER, 3 AUDUBON'S
SHEARWATERS, roughly 3000 WILSON'S STORM-PETRELS, 9 LEACH'S
STORM-PETRELS, 200 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, 15 RED PHALAROPES,
3 LONG-TAILED JAEGERS, and a TREE SWALLOW at the shelf edge.
Weekend reports from Plum Island included 1 PEREGRINE FALCON, 1
MERLIN, 2 SORAS, 4 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS, and BLACK-
BURNIAN, CHESTNUT-SIDED, and MAGNOLIA WARBLERS, and birds
noted in Essex Bay yesterday included 1 LITTLE BLUE HERON, 340
SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 8 RED KNOTS, 1 BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, 1
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, 1 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER, and 150
COMMON TERNS.
A report from the Belle Isle Marsh in East Boston included 23 GREAT
EGRETS, 91 SNOWY EGRETS, 1 VIRGINIA RAIL, 1 BAIRD'S SANDPIPER,
and 2 SALTMARSH SHARP-TAILED SPARROWS, at Bolton Flats there were
16 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS, 1 PHILADELPHIA VIREO, roughly 6600
AMERICAN ROBINS coming into an evening roost, 6 INDIGO BUNTINGS,
and 1260 RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS, and miscellaneous reports included 25
RED KNOTS and a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER at Duxbury Beach, 3 WILD
TURKEYS at the Mass Audubon Boston Nature Center in Mattapan, and a
DARK-EYED JUNCO in Post Office Square in Boston.
Thank you for calling.
- End transcript
* Massachusetts
* Eastern
* August 29, 2005
* MAEA0508.29
- Birds mentioned
WILSON'S PLOVER
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Hudsonian Godwit
Marbled Godwit
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Forster's Tern
Black Tern
Black Skimmer
Ring-necked Duck
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Glossy Ibis
Common Moorhen
Western Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Wilson's Phalarope
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
CACKLING GOOSE
Great Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Northern Harrier
Least Sandpiper
SEDGE WREN
Cory's Shearwater
Greater Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Audubon's Shearwater
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
Leach's Storm-Petrel
Red-necked Phalarope
Red Phalarope
LONG-TAILED JAEGER
Tree Swallow
Peregrine Falcon
Merlin
Sora
Blackburnian Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Little Blue Heron
Semipalmated Plover
Red Knot
Long-billed Dowitcher
Common Tern
Snowy Egret
Virginia Rail
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Common Nighthawk
Philadelphia Vireo
American Robin
Indigo Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Wild Turkey
Dark-eyed Junco
- Transcript
hotline: Eastern Massachusetts
date: August 29, 2005
number: (888) 224-6444
to report: anytime day or night, 781-259-2148 (Simon Perkins)
compiler: Simon Perkins, Massachusetts Audubon Society
coverage: Eastern Massachusetts
transcriber: Barbara Volkle barb620@theworld.com
EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS -
This is the Voice of Audubon for Monday, August 29.
The WILSON'S PLOVER at South Beach in Chatham was still present over
the weekend as were 1 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, 25 HUDSONIAN
GODWITS, 3 MARBLED GODWITS, 1 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL,
3 FORSTER'S TERNS, 4 BLACK TERNS, and 1 BLACK SKIMMER, and at
South Monomoy Island in Chatham there were 12 RING-NECKED DUCKS, 12
RUDDY DUCKS, 1 PIED-BILLED GREBE, 8 GLOSSY IBISES, 1 COMMON
MOORHEN, 2 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, 2 WESTERN SANDPIPERS,
90 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, 2 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, 8 PECTORAL
SANDPIPERS, 8 STILT SANDPIPERS, 7 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS, 2
WILSON'S PHALAROPES, 2 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS, 2
FORSTER'S TERNS, 100 BLACK TERNS, and 1 YELLOW-BELLIED
FLYCATCHER.
The CACKLING GOOSE in Concord was seen again over the weekend at the
Great Meadows Refuge off Monsen Road and in the cow pasture on the north
side of the intersection of Barrett's Mill Road and Route 2. Other birds
seen over
the weekend at the Great Meadows Refuge included 3 GREAT EGRETS, a
BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON, 1 NORTHERN HARRIER, an
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, 2 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, 40 LEAST
SANDPIPERS, a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, and a SEDGE WREN.
On a boat trip on Saturday from Cape Cod to the Continental Shelf edge roughly
80-100 miles south of Nantucket birds seen included 5 CORY'S SHEARWATERS,
35 GREATER SHEARWATERS, 1 SOOTY SHEARWATER, 3 AUDUBON'S
SHEARWATERS, roughly 3000 WILSON'S STORM-PETRELS, 9 LEACH'S
STORM-PETRELS, 200 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, 15 RED PHALAROPES,
3 LONG-TAILED JAEGERS, and a TREE SWALLOW at the shelf edge.
Weekend reports from Plum Island included 1 PEREGRINE FALCON, 1
MERLIN, 2 SORAS, 4 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS, and BLACK-
BURNIAN, CHESTNUT-SIDED, and MAGNOLIA WARBLERS, and birds
noted in Essex Bay yesterday included 1 LITTLE BLUE HERON, 340
SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 8 RED KNOTS, 1 BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, 1
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, 1 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER, and 150
COMMON TERNS.
A report from the Belle Isle Marsh in East Boston included 23 GREAT
EGRETS, 91 SNOWY EGRETS, 1 VIRGINIA RAIL, 1 BAIRD'S SANDPIPER,
and 2 SALTMARSH SHARP-TAILED SPARROWS, at Bolton Flats there were
16 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS, 1 PHILADELPHIA VIREO, roughly 6600
AMERICAN ROBINS coming into an evening roost, 6 INDIGO BUNTINGS,
and 1260 RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS, and miscellaneous reports included 25
RED KNOTS and a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER at Duxbury Beach, 3 WILD
TURKEYS at the Mass Audubon Boston Nature Center in Mattapan, and a
DARK-EYED JUNCO in Post Office Square in Boston.
Thank you for calling.
- End transcript