- RBA
* Massachusetts
* Eastern
* August 4, 2006
* MAEA0607.04
- Birds mentioned
AMERICAN AVOCET
Peregrine Falcon
Merlin
Semipalmated Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Parasitic Jaeger
Little Gull
Forster’s Tern
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Willow Flycatcher
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
Marsh Wren
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Cedar Waxwing
Yellow Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Northern Waterthrush
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow
Baltimore Oriole
Purple Finch
Greater Shearwater
Cory's Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
Leach's Storm-Petrel
Pomarine Jaeger
Laughing Gull
Roseate Tern
Least Sandpiper
Common Tern
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
American Oystercatcher
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Willets (including western race)
Whimbrel
Hudsonian Godwit
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Sanderling
Western Sandpiper
Dunlin
Black-headed Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Royal Tern
Arctic Tern
Black Skimmer
Black Tern
Little Blue Heron
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Great Blue Heron
Solitary Sandpiper
Great Egret
- Transcript
hotline: Eastern Massachusetts
date: August 4, 2006
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 Friday, August 4.
An AMERICAN AVOCET was discovered today at the Stage Island pool
at Plum Island, and other reports from the Island this week have
included 1 PEREGRINE
FALCON, 1 MERLIN, ROUGHLY 1000 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS, 5
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, 4 STILT SANDPIPERS, roughly 100
SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS, 1 PARASITIC JAEGER, 1 LITTLE GULL,
1 FORSTER’S TERN, 1 YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, 16 WILLOW
FLYCATCHERS, 10 PURPLE MARTINS, roughly 5000 TREE SWALLOWS,
200 BANK SWALLOWS, 200 BARN SWALLOWS, 40 MARSH WRENS,
180 GRAY CATBIRDS, 17 BROWN THRASHERS, 127 CEDAR WAXWINGS,
72 YELLOW WARBLERS, AN EARLY MIGRANT MAGNOLIA WARBLER,
1 PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, 1 NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, 20
SALTMARSH SHARP-TAILED SPARROWS, 1 SEASIDE SPARROW,
26 BALTIMORE ORIOLES, and 16 PURPLE FINCHES.
Recent reports from the north end of Stellwagen Bank have
included 550 GREATER SHEARWATERS, 1 CORY'S SHEARWATER, 75 SOOTY
SHEARWATERS, 12 MANX SHEARWATERS, roughly 2000 WILSON'S
STORM-PETRELS, 1 LEACH'S STORM-PETREL, 1 POMARINE JAEGER,
1 PARASITIC JAEGER, 8 LAUGHING GULLS, and 3 ROSEATE TERNS,
and reports from the southern end of the Bank have included
roughly 1000 GREATER SHEARWATERS, 200 SOOTY SHEARWATERS, 12 MANX
SHEARWATERS, 2000 WILSON'S STORM-PETRELS, 9 LEAST SAND-
PIPERS, 3 PARASITIC JAEGERS, 2 POMARINE JAEGERS, 2 ROSEATE
TERNS, and 170 COMMON TERNS.
Combined totals from North Monomoy Island and nearby South Beach in
Chatham included a YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON, 750 BLACK-
BELLIED PLOVERS, 1900 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 31 PIPING
PLOVERS, 80 AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS, 155 GREATER
YELLOWLEGS, 42 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 360 WILLETS (including
15 of the western race), 48 WHIMBREL, 100 HUDSONIAN GODWITS, 2
MARBLED GODWITS, 340 RUDDY TURNSTONES, 750 RED KNOTS,
3800 SANDERLINGS, 9500 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS, 2
WESTERN SANDPIPERS, 500 LEAST SANDPIPERS, 51 WHITE-
RUMPED SANDPIPERS, 4 DUNLIN, 2 STILT SANDPIPERS, 5100 SHORT-
BILLED DOWITCHERS, 1 BLACK-HEADED GULL, 3 LESSER BLACK-
BACKED GULLS, 1 ROYAL TERN, 1 ARCTIC TERN, and 2 BLACK
SKIMMERS.
At Race Point in Provincetown there were 60 ROSEATE TERNS, 1800
COMMON TERNS, 1 FORSTER’S TERN, and 1 BLACK TERN, at
Nantucket there were 2 LITTLE BLUE HERONS, 2 LESSER BLACK-
BACKED GULLS, 116 ROSEATE TERNS, 1 ARCTIC TERN, and 3
BLACK TERNS, and miscellaneous reports this week have included 45
GREAT BLUE HERONS and 8 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS at the Great
Meadows Refuge in Concord, a GREAT EGRET in Lexington, and 4
PEREGRINE FALCONS in the airspace over the New England Aquarium
in Boston.
Have a good weekend and thank you for calling.
- End transcript
* Massachusetts
* Eastern
* August 4, 2006
* MAEA0607.04
- Birds mentioned
AMERICAN AVOCET
Peregrine Falcon
Merlin
Semipalmated Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Parasitic Jaeger
Little Gull
Forster’s Tern
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Willow Flycatcher
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
Marsh Wren
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Cedar Waxwing
Yellow Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Northern Waterthrush
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow
Baltimore Oriole
Purple Finch
Greater Shearwater
Cory's Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
Leach's Storm-Petrel
Pomarine Jaeger
Laughing Gull
Roseate Tern
Least Sandpiper
Common Tern
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
American Oystercatcher
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Willets (including western race)
Whimbrel
Hudsonian Godwit
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Sanderling
Western Sandpiper
Dunlin
Black-headed Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Royal Tern
Arctic Tern
Black Skimmer
Black Tern
Little Blue Heron
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Great Blue Heron
Solitary Sandpiper
Great Egret
- Transcript
hotline: Eastern Massachusetts
date: August 4, 2006
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 Friday, August 4.
An AMERICAN AVOCET was discovered today at the Stage Island pool
at Plum Island, and other reports from the Island this week have
included 1 PEREGRINE
FALCON, 1 MERLIN, ROUGHLY 1000 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS, 5
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, 4 STILT SANDPIPERS, roughly 100
SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS, 1 PARASITIC JAEGER, 1 LITTLE GULL,
1 FORSTER’S TERN, 1 YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, 16 WILLOW
FLYCATCHERS, 10 PURPLE MARTINS, roughly 5000 TREE SWALLOWS,
200 BANK SWALLOWS, 200 BARN SWALLOWS, 40 MARSH WRENS,
180 GRAY CATBIRDS, 17 BROWN THRASHERS, 127 CEDAR WAXWINGS,
72 YELLOW WARBLERS, AN EARLY MIGRANT MAGNOLIA WARBLER,
1 PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, 1 NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, 20
SALTMARSH SHARP-TAILED SPARROWS, 1 SEASIDE SPARROW,
26 BALTIMORE ORIOLES, and 16 PURPLE FINCHES.
Recent reports from the north end of Stellwagen Bank have
included 550 GREATER SHEARWATERS, 1 CORY'S SHEARWATER, 75 SOOTY
SHEARWATERS, 12 MANX SHEARWATERS, roughly 2000 WILSON'S
STORM-PETRELS, 1 LEACH'S STORM-PETREL, 1 POMARINE JAEGER,
1 PARASITIC JAEGER, 8 LAUGHING GULLS, and 3 ROSEATE TERNS,
and reports from the southern end of the Bank have included
roughly 1000 GREATER SHEARWATERS, 200 SOOTY SHEARWATERS, 12 MANX
SHEARWATERS, 2000 WILSON'S STORM-PETRELS, 9 LEAST SAND-
PIPERS, 3 PARASITIC JAEGERS, 2 POMARINE JAEGERS, 2 ROSEATE
TERNS, and 170 COMMON TERNS.
Combined totals from North Monomoy Island and nearby South Beach in
Chatham included a YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON, 750 BLACK-
BELLIED PLOVERS, 1900 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, 31 PIPING
PLOVERS, 80 AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS, 155 GREATER
YELLOWLEGS, 42 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 360 WILLETS (including
15 of the western race), 48 WHIMBREL, 100 HUDSONIAN GODWITS, 2
MARBLED GODWITS, 340 RUDDY TURNSTONES, 750 RED KNOTS,
3800 SANDERLINGS, 9500 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS, 2
WESTERN SANDPIPERS, 500 LEAST SANDPIPERS, 51 WHITE-
RUMPED SANDPIPERS, 4 DUNLIN, 2 STILT SANDPIPERS, 5100 SHORT-
BILLED DOWITCHERS, 1 BLACK-HEADED GULL, 3 LESSER BLACK-
BACKED GULLS, 1 ROYAL TERN, 1 ARCTIC TERN, and 2 BLACK
SKIMMERS.
At Race Point in Provincetown there were 60 ROSEATE TERNS, 1800
COMMON TERNS, 1 FORSTER’S TERN, and 1 BLACK TERN, at
Nantucket there were 2 LITTLE BLUE HERONS, 2 LESSER BLACK-
BACKED GULLS, 116 ROSEATE TERNS, 1 ARCTIC TERN, and 3
BLACK TERNS, and miscellaneous reports this week have included 45
GREAT BLUE HERONS and 8 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS at the Great
Meadows Refuge in Concord, a GREAT EGRET in Lexington, and 4
PEREGRINE FALCONS in the airspace over the New England Aquarium
in Boston.
Have a good weekend and thank you for calling.
- End transcript