- RBA
* Massachusetts
* Eastern
* November 14, 2005
* MAEA0511.14
- Birds mentioned
CAVE SWALLOW
TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE
ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER
Eurasian Wigeon
Redhead
Common Moorhen
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Yellow-breasted Chat
Vesper Sparrow
Great Egret
Lesser Scaup
Common Eider
Black Scoter
Harlequin Duck
Barrow's Goldeneye
Ruddy Duck
Northern Harrier
Red-shouldered Hawk
American Coot
American Golden-Plover
Greater Yellowlegs
Pectoral Sandpiper
Laughing Gull
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Cackling Goose
Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Surf Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Common Loon
Northern Fulmar
Greater Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Northern Gannet
Pomarine Jaeger
Black-legged Kittiwake
Common Tern
Razorbill
Pine Siskin
Green-winged Teal
Northern Pintail
Common Goldeneye
Pied-billed Grebe
American Coot
Merlin
Wilson's Snipe
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
BOHEMIAN WAXWING
Dickcissel
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
EVENING GROSBEAK
Northern Shrike
Fox Sparrow
Northern Goshawk
King Eider
Arctic Tern
Forster's Tern
- Transcript
hotline: Eastern Massachusetts
date: November 14, 2005
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 Monday, November 14.
CAVE SWALLOWS continued to be seen at various coastal locations during
the weekend. Sightings included 1 or 2 at Plum Island, 7 in Westport, and 3 in
the Cotuit section of Barnstable. Three to five CAVE SWALLOWS that spent
several hours both Thursday and Friday along Lynn Beach were not seen there
again either Saturday or Sunday. Belated reports of other CAVE SWALLOWS
included 1 on Friday in Hyannis and 2 on Friday in South Boston.
Two TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRES, presumably the same two that were first
found there nine days ago, were still present this weekend at High
Head in Truro,
and the ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER at Plum Island was also still present
in the vicinity of Hellcat Marsh.
Additional reports from Plum Island included a EURASIAN WIGEON, 5
REDHEADS, a COMMON MOORHEN, 1 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER,
a late BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, 1 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER, 1 LESSER
BLACK-BACKED GULL, 1 YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, and 1 VESPER
SPARROW, and other reports from Westport included 3 GREAT EGRETS, 7
REDHEADS, 324 LESSER SCAUP, roughly 3000 COMMON EIDER and
1000 BLACK SCOTER, 1 HARLEQUIN DUCK, 1 BARROW'S GOLDENEYE,
117 RUDDY DUCKS, 6 NORTHERN HARRIERS, 1 RED-SHOULDERED
HAWK, 395 AMERICAN COOTS, an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, 4
GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 1 PECTORAL SANDPIPER, 78 LAUGHING
GULLS, 9 TREE SWALLOWS, 8 BARN SWALLOWS, 1 HOUSE WREN, 2
MARSH WRENS, 2 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS, 1 NASHVILLE
WARBLER, 1 YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, and a late SCARLET TANAGER.
Two CACKLING GEESE and two GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE
were still present over the weekend in the cow pasture at the intersection of
Route 2 and Barrett's Mill Road in West Concord.
Seen on a boat trip from Hyannis to Nantucket Shoals yesterday were 15
SNOW GEESE, 2100 SURF SCOTER, 1800 LONG-TAILED DUCKS,
140 COMMON LOONS, 3 NORTHERN FULMARS, 1100 GREATER
SHEARWATERS, 1 SOOTY SHEARWATER, 4 MANX SHEARWATERS,
2400 NORTHERN GANNETS, 12 POMARINE JAEGERS, 11 unidentified
jaegers, 5 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS, 2300 BLACK-LEGGED
KITTIWAKES, 5 COMMON TERNS, 31 RAZORBILLS, and 1 PINE
SISKIN.
At the Great Meadows Refuge in Concord there were 25 GREEN-WINGED
TEAL, 8 NORTHERN PINTAIL, 2 REDHEADS, 5 RUDDY DUCKS, 2
COMMON GOLDENEYE, 1 PIED-BILLED GREBE, and 88 AMERICAN
COOT, seen at Bolton Flats were 1 NORTHERN HARRIER, 1 MERLIN,
1 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 5 WILSON'S SNIPE, and 2 RUBY-
CROWNED KINGLETS, and weekend reports from Nantucket included
a BOHEMIAN WAXWING, as well as 31 LESSER BLACK-BACKED
GULLS, 1 BARN SWALLOW, and a DICKCISSEL.
Miscellaneous reports from the weekend included 2 BARN SWALLOWS and
a late BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER in Rockport, a NASHVILLE WARBLER
in Salisbury, 2 EVENING GROSBEAKS in Stow, a YELLOW-BREASTED
CHAT in Nahant, a NORTHERN HARRIER, a NORTHERN SHRIKE, and 10 FOX
SPARROWS at the Dunback Meadow conservation area in Lexington, 6 SURF
SCOTERS on Brookline Reservoir, a NORTHERN GOSHAWK in Scituate,
a KING EIDER at the eastern end of the Cape Cod Canal in Sandwich, a very
late ARCTIC TERN, 1 FORSTER'S TERN, and 40 COMMON TERNS at
Muskeget Island, and 2 NORTHERN GOSHAWKS and roughly 1000 TREE
SWALLOWS at Tuckernuck.
Thank you for calling.
- End transcript
* Massachusetts
* Eastern
* November 14, 2005
* MAEA0511.14
- Birds mentioned
CAVE SWALLOW
TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE
ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER
Eurasian Wigeon
Redhead
Common Moorhen
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Yellow-breasted Chat
Vesper Sparrow
Great Egret
Lesser Scaup
Common Eider
Black Scoter
Harlequin Duck
Barrow's Goldeneye
Ruddy Duck
Northern Harrier
Red-shouldered Hawk
American Coot
American Golden-Plover
Greater Yellowlegs
Pectoral Sandpiper
Laughing Gull
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Cackling Goose
Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Surf Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Common Loon
Northern Fulmar
Greater Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Northern Gannet
Pomarine Jaeger
Black-legged Kittiwake
Common Tern
Razorbill
Pine Siskin
Green-winged Teal
Northern Pintail
Common Goldeneye
Pied-billed Grebe
American Coot
Merlin
Wilson's Snipe
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
BOHEMIAN WAXWING
Dickcissel
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
EVENING GROSBEAK
Northern Shrike
Fox Sparrow
Northern Goshawk
King Eider
Arctic Tern
Forster's Tern
- Transcript
hotline: Eastern Massachusetts
date: November 14, 2005
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 Monday, November 14.
CAVE SWALLOWS continued to be seen at various coastal locations during
the weekend. Sightings included 1 or 2 at Plum Island, 7 in Westport, and 3 in
the Cotuit section of Barnstable. Three to five CAVE SWALLOWS that spent
several hours both Thursday and Friday along Lynn Beach were not seen there
again either Saturday or Sunday. Belated reports of other CAVE SWALLOWS
included 1 on Friday in Hyannis and 2 on Friday in South Boston.
Two TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRES, presumably the same two that were first
found there nine days ago, were still present this weekend at High
Head in Truro,
and the ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER at Plum Island was also still present
in the vicinity of Hellcat Marsh.
Additional reports from Plum Island included a EURASIAN WIGEON, 5
REDHEADS, a COMMON MOORHEN, 1 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER,
a late BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, 1 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER, 1 LESSER
BLACK-BACKED GULL, 1 YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, and 1 VESPER
SPARROW, and other reports from Westport included 3 GREAT EGRETS, 7
REDHEADS, 324 LESSER SCAUP, roughly 3000 COMMON EIDER and
1000 BLACK SCOTER, 1 HARLEQUIN DUCK, 1 BARROW'S GOLDENEYE,
117 RUDDY DUCKS, 6 NORTHERN HARRIERS, 1 RED-SHOULDERED
HAWK, 395 AMERICAN COOTS, an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, 4
GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 1 PECTORAL SANDPIPER, 78 LAUGHING
GULLS, 9 TREE SWALLOWS, 8 BARN SWALLOWS, 1 HOUSE WREN, 2
MARSH WRENS, 2 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS, 1 NASHVILLE
WARBLER, 1 YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, and a late SCARLET TANAGER.
Two CACKLING GEESE and two GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE
were still present over the weekend in the cow pasture at the intersection of
Route 2 and Barrett's Mill Road in West Concord.
Seen on a boat trip from Hyannis to Nantucket Shoals yesterday were 15
SNOW GEESE, 2100 SURF SCOTER, 1800 LONG-TAILED DUCKS,
140 COMMON LOONS, 3 NORTHERN FULMARS, 1100 GREATER
SHEARWATERS, 1 SOOTY SHEARWATER, 4 MANX SHEARWATERS,
2400 NORTHERN GANNETS, 12 POMARINE JAEGERS, 11 unidentified
jaegers, 5 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS, 2300 BLACK-LEGGED
KITTIWAKES, 5 COMMON TERNS, 31 RAZORBILLS, and 1 PINE
SISKIN.
At the Great Meadows Refuge in Concord there were 25 GREEN-WINGED
TEAL, 8 NORTHERN PINTAIL, 2 REDHEADS, 5 RUDDY DUCKS, 2
COMMON GOLDENEYE, 1 PIED-BILLED GREBE, and 88 AMERICAN
COOT, seen at Bolton Flats were 1 NORTHERN HARRIER, 1 MERLIN,
1 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 5 WILSON'S SNIPE, and 2 RUBY-
CROWNED KINGLETS, and weekend reports from Nantucket included
a BOHEMIAN WAXWING, as well as 31 LESSER BLACK-BACKED
GULLS, 1 BARN SWALLOW, and a DICKCISSEL.
Miscellaneous reports from the weekend included 2 BARN SWALLOWS and
a late BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER in Rockport, a NASHVILLE WARBLER
in Salisbury, 2 EVENING GROSBEAKS in Stow, a YELLOW-BREASTED
CHAT in Nahant, a NORTHERN HARRIER, a NORTHERN SHRIKE, and 10 FOX
SPARROWS at the Dunback Meadow conservation area in Lexington, 6 SURF
SCOTERS on Brookline Reservoir, a NORTHERN GOSHAWK in Scituate,
a KING EIDER at the eastern end of the Cape Cod Canal in Sandwich, a very
late ARCTIC TERN, 1 FORSTER'S TERN, and 40 COMMON TERNS at
Muskeget Island, and 2 NORTHERN GOSHAWKS and roughly 1000 TREE
SWALLOWS at Tuckernuck.
Thank you for calling.
- End transcript