- RBA
* Massachusetts
* Eastern
* October 13, 2006
* MAEA0610.13
- Birds mentioned
Eurasian Wigeon
American Wigeon
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Red-throated Loon
American Bittern
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Northern Harrier
Peregrine Falcon
Greater Yellowlegs
Hudsonian Godwit
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Common Tern
Red-eyed Vireo
Tree Swallow
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Tennessee Warbler
American Pipit
Clay-colored Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Lapland Longspur
Bonaparte's Gull
Laughing Gull
Forster's Tern
Ruddy Duck
Orange-crowned Warbler
Common Raven
Blue Grosbeak
Vesper Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Black-billed Cuckoo
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Pied-billed Grebe
- Transcript
hotline: Eastern Massachusetts
date: October 13, 2006
number: (781) 259-8805 (new number)
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, October 13.
Neither the frigatebird at Tuckernuck Island nor the Yellow Rail in
Newburyport
have been reported since they were seen on Monday, but other recent
reports from
the Newburyport/Plum Island area have included 1 EURASIAN WIGEON, 55
AMERICAN WIGEON, 114 NORTHERN PINTAILS, 200 GREEN-WINGED
TEAL, 2 RING-NECKED DUCKS, 6 unidentified scaup, 12 COMMON
MERGANSERS, 9 RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS, 4 RED-THROATED
LOONS, 1 AMERICAN BITTERN, 31 GREAT EGRETS, 2 SNOWY
EGRETS, 8 NORTHERN HARRIERS, 3 PEREGRINE FALCONS, 320
GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 2 HUDSONIAN GODWITS, 1 WHITE-RUMPED
SANDPIPER, 4 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, 8 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS,
45 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS, 1 COMMON TERN, 1 RED-EYED VIREO,
roughly 500 TREE SWALLOWS, 30 GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS,
8 species of wood warblers including 1 TENNESSEE WARBLER, 10
AMERICAN PIPITS, 1 CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, 6 WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROWS, 19 DARK-EYED JUNCOS, and 13 LAPLAND LONGSPURS.
Seen in South Boston were 1 RED-THROATED LOON, 200 BONAPARTE'S
GULLS, 50 LAUGHING GULLS, 10 COMMON TERNS, and roughly 100
FORSTER'S TERNS, and at Fresh Pond in Cambridge there were 107 RING-
NECKED DUCKS, 2 unidentified scaup, 24 RUDDY DUCKS, and an
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER.
Miscellaneous reports this week have included a COMMON RAVEN in
Haverhill, a BLUE GROSBEAK in the Fenway section of Boston, a VESPER
SPARROW, 70 WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS, and 8 DARK-EYED
JUNCOS in Dorchester, a BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO in Middleboro, a
VESPER SPARROW and 6 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS in Plympton,
285 migrating SHARP-SHINNED HAWKS and 17 migrating COOPER'S
HAWKS at Morris Island in Chatham, and 6 PIED-BILLED GREBES
at Nantucket.
Have a good weekend and thank you for calling.
- End transcript
* Massachusetts
* Eastern
* October 13, 2006
* MAEA0610.13
- Birds mentioned
Eurasian Wigeon
American Wigeon
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Red-throated Loon
American Bittern
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Northern Harrier
Peregrine Falcon
Greater Yellowlegs
Hudsonian Godwit
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Common Tern
Red-eyed Vireo
Tree Swallow
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Tennessee Warbler
American Pipit
Clay-colored Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Lapland Longspur
Bonaparte's Gull
Laughing Gull
Forster's Tern
Ruddy Duck
Orange-crowned Warbler
Common Raven
Blue Grosbeak
Vesper Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Black-billed Cuckoo
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Pied-billed Grebe
- Transcript
hotline: Eastern Massachusetts
date: October 13, 2006
number: (781) 259-8805 (new number)
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, October 13.
Neither the frigatebird at Tuckernuck Island nor the Yellow Rail in
Newburyport
have been reported since they were seen on Monday, but other recent
reports from
the Newburyport/Plum Island area have included 1 EURASIAN WIGEON, 55
AMERICAN WIGEON, 114 NORTHERN PINTAILS, 200 GREEN-WINGED
TEAL, 2 RING-NECKED DUCKS, 6 unidentified scaup, 12 COMMON
MERGANSERS, 9 RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS, 4 RED-THROATED
LOONS, 1 AMERICAN BITTERN, 31 GREAT EGRETS, 2 SNOWY
EGRETS, 8 NORTHERN HARRIERS, 3 PEREGRINE FALCONS, 320
GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 2 HUDSONIAN GODWITS, 1 WHITE-RUMPED
SANDPIPER, 4 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, 8 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS,
45 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS, 1 COMMON TERN, 1 RED-EYED VIREO,
roughly 500 TREE SWALLOWS, 30 GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS,
8 species of wood warblers including 1 TENNESSEE WARBLER, 10
AMERICAN PIPITS, 1 CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, 6 WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROWS, 19 DARK-EYED JUNCOS, and 13 LAPLAND LONGSPURS.
Seen in South Boston were 1 RED-THROATED LOON, 200 BONAPARTE'S
GULLS, 50 LAUGHING GULLS, 10 COMMON TERNS, and roughly 100
FORSTER'S TERNS, and at Fresh Pond in Cambridge there were 107 RING-
NECKED DUCKS, 2 unidentified scaup, 24 RUDDY DUCKS, and an
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER.
Miscellaneous reports this week have included a COMMON RAVEN in
Haverhill, a BLUE GROSBEAK in the Fenway section of Boston, a VESPER
SPARROW, 70 WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS, and 8 DARK-EYED
JUNCOS in Dorchester, a BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO in Middleboro, a
VESPER SPARROW and 6 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS in Plympton,
285 migrating SHARP-SHINNED HAWKS and 17 migrating COOPER'S
HAWKS at Morris Island in Chatham, and 6 PIED-BILLED GREBES
at Nantucket.
Have a good weekend and thank you for calling.
- End transcript