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* April 30, 2007
* MAEA0704.30

- Birds mentioned
WHITE-FACED IBIS
Glossy Ibis
RUFF
American Bittern
Peregrine Falcon
Virginia Rail
Willet
Least Sandpiper
Common Murre
PRAIRIE WARBLER
SANDHILL CRANE
CHIMNEY SWIFT
Eastern Kingbird
Warbling Vireo
Common Raven
Brown Thrasher
BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER
YELLOW WARBLER
Northern Waterthrush
Whimbrel
Short-billed Dowitcher
Glaucous Gull
Common Tern
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
Hooded Warbler
Red-headed Woodpecker
Scarlet Tanager
WOOD THRUSH
Red-shouldered Hawk
Great Crested Flycatcher
White-eyed Vireo
HOUSE WREN
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
SPOTTED SANDPIPER
CLIFF SWALLOW
SEMIPALMATED PLOVER
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Harlequin Duck
OVENBIRD
Iceland Gull
VEERY

- Transcript

hotline: Eastern Massachusetts
date: April 30, 2007
number: (781) 259-8805
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, April 30.

Two WHITE-FACED IBISES continue to be seen in the company of GLOSSY
IBISES in various small pools off the west side of Route 1A near the
Rowley/
Newbury town line, and the RUFF in Newburyport Harbor was also still
present
there over the weekend.

Other reports from the Newburyport/Plum Island area included 2
AMERICAN
BITTERNS, 1 PEREGRINE FALCON, 1 VIRGINIA RAIL, 3 WILLETS, 14
LEAST SANDPIPERS, 1 COMMON MURRE, and 1 PRAIRIE WARBLER,
and seen in Oxford were 2 SANDHILL CRANES, 2 CHIMNEY SWIFTS, 1
EASTERN KINGBIRD, 1 WARBLING VIREO, 2 COMMON RAVENS,
3 BROWN THRASHERS, 2 BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLERS,
2 YELLOW WARBLERS, and 2 NORTHERN WATERTHRUSHES.

Recent reports from Nantucket have included 1 WHIMBREL, 3 SHORT-
BILLED DOWITCHERS, 1 GLAUCOUS GULL, 40 COMMON TERNS,
2 BLUE GROSBEAKS, 5 INDIGO BUNTINGS, 1 ORCHARD ORIOLE,
and 3 BALTIMORE ORIOLES, and miscellaneous reports from the
weekend included a YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER at Fresh Pond
in Cambridge, a HOODED WARBLER in Nahant, 2 RED-HEADED
WOODPECKERS in Littleton, a SCARLET TANAGER in Millbury, a
WOOD THRUSH in Worcester, a CHIMNEY SWIFT in Natick, a RED-
SHOULDERED HAWK and GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER in
West Roxbury, a GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER, 1 WHITE-EYED
VIREO, and 2 HOUSE WRENS at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge,
28 NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOWS in Brighton, 3
SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, 1 CLIFF SWALLOW, and 1 ORCHARD
ORIOLE in Jamaica Plain, a SEMIPALMATED PLOVER in Duxbury,
a CHIMNEY SWIFT and a ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK in Marshfield,
8 HARLEQUIN DUCKS in Westport, 3 YELLOW WARBLERS and 5
OVENBIRDS in Acushnet, 2 YELLOW WARBLERS in Falmouth, a
BALTIMORE ORIOLE in Harwich, and an ICELAND GULL and a VEERY
in Provincetown.

Thank you for calling.
- End transcript