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TOWNSEND'S WARBLER
Lesser Scaup
Great Blue Heron
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Rough-legged Hawk
Iceland Gull
Short-eared Owl
Snowy Owl
Northern Shrike
American Bittern
Turkey Vulture
Red-shouldered Hawk
GOLDEN EAGLE
Merlin
Winter Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
American Pipit
Yellow-breasted Chat
Fox Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Eurasian Wigeon
Gadwall
Harlequin Duck
Common Eider
Pied-billed Grebe
Peregrine Falcon
Ruddy Turnstone
American Woodcock
Glaucous Gull
White-crowned Sparrow
Barrow's Goldeneye
Eastern Phoebe
Fox Sparrow
Gray Catbird
Rusty Blackbird
Savannah Sparrow
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Purple Sandpiper
Orange-crowned Warbler
Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Transcript
hotline: Eastern Massachusetts
date: February 12, 2007
number: (781) 259-8805
to report: anytime day or night, 781-259-2148 (Simon Perkins)
compiler: Wayne Petersen, Massachusetts Audubon Society
coverage: Eastern Massachusetts
transcriber: Barbara Volkle barb620@theworld.com
EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS -
This is the Voice of Audubon for Monday, February 12.
The TOWNSEND'S WARBLER at 6 Laurel Street in Cambridge was still
present over the weekend.
Weekend reports from the Newburyport/Plum Island area included 10
LESSER
SCAUP, 2 GREAT BLUE HERONS, a minimum of 16 BALD EAGLES, 10
NORTHERN HARRIERS, 4 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, 5 ICELAND
GULLS, a SHORT-EARED OWL, 2 SNOWY OWLS, and a NORTHERN
SHRIKE.
Reports from Westport this weekend included an AMERICAN BITTERN, 7
TURKEY VULTURES, 2 BALD EAGLES, 4 RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS,
a GOLDEN EAGLE, a MERLIN, 2 WINTER WRENS, a RUBY-CROWNED
KINGLET, 6 HERMIT THRUSHES, 194 AMERICAN PIPITS, a YELLOW-
BREASTED CHAT, 3 FOX SPARROWS, and 16 RED-WINGED
BLACKBIRDS.
Recent reports from Nantucket have included a EURASIAN WIGEON, 19
GADWALLS, 10 HARLEQUIN DUCKS, roughly 16,000 COMMON EIDERS,
12 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 2 PEREGRINE FALCONS, 14 RUDDY
TURNSTONES, 2 AMERICAN WOODCOCKS, and a GLAUCOUS GULL.
Miscellaneous reports from the weekend included a WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROW in Salisbury; a NORTHERN HARRIER and a FOX SPARROW
at the Ipswich River Sanctuary in Topsfield; a BARROW'S GOLDENEYE,
2 TURKEY VULTURES, and 2 BALD EAGLES in Essex; an EASTERN
PHOEBE in Ipswich; 5 FOX SPARROWS in Lexington; a TURKEY
VULTURE, a GRAY CATBIRD, and 2 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS in Wayland;
a RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET in Natick; roughly 100 SAVANNAH
SPARROWS in Bridgewater; 4 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS and 3
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS at
the Cumberland Farms fields in Middleboro; a YELLOW-BELLIED
SAPSUCKER and 43 RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS at the Daniel Webster
Wildlife Sanctuary in Marshfield; 2 HARLEQUIN DUCKS and 18 PURPLE
SANDPIPERS at Scusset Beach in Bourne; an ORANGE-CROWNED
WARBLER in Mashpee; and a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL and a
YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER in Dartmouth.
Thank you for calling.