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* June 26, 2006
* MAEA2606.06

- Birds mentioned

Blue-winged Teal
Green-winged Teal
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Hooded Merganser
Greater Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
Northern Gannet
Least Bittern
Little Blue Heron
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Clapper Rail
King Rail
Virginia Rail
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Laughing Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Royal Tern
Roseate Tern
Sandwich Tern
Common Tern
Arctic Tern
Arctic Tern
Black Tern
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Willow Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Yellow-throated Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Common Raven
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Veery
Hermit Thrush
Brown Thrasher
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Pine Warbler
Ovenbird
Canada Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Eastern Towhee
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Indigo Bunting

- Transcript
hotline: Eastern Massachusetts
date: June 26, 2006
number:(888) 224-6444
to report: 781-259-2148 (Simon Perkins)
compiler: Simon Perkins, Massachusetts Audubon Society
coverage: Eastern Massachusetts
transcriber: Marjorie Rines marj@mrines.com

EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS –

VOICE OF AUDUBON FOR MONDAY, JUNE 26 (2006)

A Sandwich Tern was seen this afternoon at Eel Point on Nantucket, and
other reports from the island include 9 White-winged Scoters, 2 Surf
Scoters, 1 Little Blue Heron, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 36 Roseate
Terns, 138 Common Terns, 2 Arctic Terns, 5 Ruddy Turnstones, and 1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo.

Another Sandwich Tern was found yesterday at Race Point in Provincetown,
where other birds included 200 Laughing Gulls, 1 Lesser Black-backed
Gull, 200 Common Terns, 15 Roseate Terns, 3 Arctic Terns, 1 Royal Tern,
and 1 Black Tern, and seen in Truro were 5 Greater Shearwaters, 8 Sooty
Shearwaters, 1 Manx Shearwater, 12 Wilson's Storm-Petrels, 30 Northern
Gannets, and a Bald Eagle.

A report from Bolton Flats included 2 Hooded Mergansers, 1 Green-winged
Teal, 10 Spotted Sandpipers, 1 Virginia Rail, 6 Willow Flycatchers, 105
Bank Swallows, 3 Marsh Wrens, 2 Yellow-throated Vireos, 4 Indigo
Buntings, and 12 Swamp Sparrows, and a breeding bird survey along the
Ware River between Rutland and Barre produced 1 Red-shouldered Hawk, 2
Virginia Rails, 23 Eastern Wood-Pewees, 24 Least Flycatchers, 2
Yellow-throated Vireos, 20 Blue-headed Vireos, 71 Red-eyed Vireos, 2
Winter Wrens, 9 Golden-crowned Kinglets, 48 Veerys, 52 Hermit Thrushes,
17 species of wood warblers including 38 Chestnut-sideds, 8 Magnolias, 7
Black-throated Blues, 16 Yellow-rumps, 35 Black-throated Greens, 12
Blackburnians, 41 Pines, 127 Ovenbirds, and 12 Canada Warblers, plus 34
Scarlet Tanagers, 39 Eastern Towhees, 9 White-throated Sparrows, and 8
Indigo Buntings.

Reports from Plum Island included 6 Blue-winged Teal, 15 Green-winged
Teal, 2 Manx Shearwaters, 16 Wilson's Storm-Petrels, 1 Least Bittern, 1
King Rail, 1 Clapper Rail, 9 Black-bellied Plovers, 2 Semipalmated
Plovers, 3 Greater Yellowlegs, 11 Lesser Yellowlegs, 3 Semipalmated
Sandpipers, 6 Least Sandpipers, 1 Short-billed Dowitcher, 10 Roseate
Terns, 10 Willow Flycatchers, 8 Brown Thrashers, 47 Saltmarsh
Sharp-tailed Sparrows, and 2 Seaside Sparrows, and miscellaneous reports
from the weekend included a Least Sandpiper and 2 Cliff Swallows at
Nine-Acre Corner in Concord, and a Common Raven in Dennis.

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