RBA: Eastern MA 11/09/09

[Barbara Volkle and Steve Moore]

- RBA
* Massachusetts
* Eastern
* November 9, 2009

- Birds Mentioned
TOWNSEND'S WARBLER
LARK BUNTING
LECONTE'S SPARROW
Northern Harrier
Rough-legged Hawk
American Pipit
American Tree Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Blue Grosbeak
Cackling Goose
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Red-breasted Merganser
Red-throated Loon
American Bittern
Greater Yellowlegs
Northern Shrike
Snow Bunting
American Wigeon
Harlequin Duck
Black-headed Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Glaucous Gull
Red Knot
Long-tailed Duck
Ruddy Duck
Cory's Shearwater
BLACK-HEADED GULL
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
EVENING GROSBEAK
Barrow's Goldeneye
Rusty Blackbird
Ring-necked Duck
Common Merganser
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
Iceland Gull
House Wren
Orange-crowned Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Fox Sparrow
Eurasian Wigeon
Nashville Warbler
WESTERN KINGBIRD

- Transcript
hotline:      Eastern Massachusetts
date:           November 9, 2009
number:     [phone]
to report:   anytime day or night, 781-259-2148 (Simon Perkins)
compiler:   David Larson, Massachusetts Audubon Society
coverage:    Eastern Massachusetts
transcriber: Barbara Volkle    barb620@...

EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS

This is the Voice of Audubon for Monday, November 9.

A TOWNSEND'S WARBLER that was captured and banded on Saturday at the
Wing Island banding station behind the Cape Cod Museum of Natural
History in
Brewster was seen there again today, the LARK BUNTING at the
Cumberland
Farms fields in Middleboro was still there at least as recently as
yesterday, and
the LECONTE'S SPARROW was also still present at the Cumberland Farms
fields at least as recently as Saturday.

Other weekend reports from the Cumberland Farms fields included 5
NORTHERN HARRIERS, 1 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, roughly 250
AMERICAN PIPITS, 14 AMERICAN TREE SPARROWS, 3 WHITE-
CROWNED SPARROWS, and a late BLUE GROSBEAK.

A flock of 7 CACKLING GEESE seen in the Stage Island area of Plum
Island
early Saturday morning was relocated later that day in the farm
fields bordered
by Northgate Road and Rt. 133 in Ipswich, and other weekend reports
from
Plum Island included 7 NORTHERN SHOVELERS, 76 NORTHERN PINTAILS,
roughly 200 RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS, 55 RED-THROATED LOONS,
1 AMERICAN BITTERN, 37 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 1 NORTHERN
SHRIKE, and 5 SNOW BUNTINGS.

Seen at Nantucket were 75 AMERICAN WIGEON, 6 HARLEQUIN DUCKS,
1 BLACK-HEADED GULL, 6 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS, 1
GLAUCOUS GULL, 5 RED KNOTS, and 32 SNOW BUNTINGS, and
miscellaneous reports from the weekend included 1 LONG-TAILED DUCK
and 145 RUDDY DUCKS at the Cherry Hill Reservoir in West Newbury,
30 HARLEQUIN DUCKS and 2 CORY'S SHEARWATERS in Rockport,
a BLACK-HEADED GULL at Niles Pond in Gloucester, 2 RED-HEADED
WOODPECKERS in Lowell, 2 EVENING GROSBEAKS in Athol, a
BARROW'S GOLDENEYE at the Sudbury Reservoir in Southboro, 30
RUSTY BLACKBIRDS in Wayland, 150 SNOW BUNTINGS in Saugus,
2 CACKLING GEESE at Franklin Park in Boston, roughly 300 RUDDY
DUCKS in Canton, 265 RING-NECKED DUCKS and 12 COMMON
MERGANSERS in Braintree, a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE in
the fields along South Main Street in Sharon, an ICELAND GULL, a
HOUSE
WREN, and an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER in Fairhaven, a
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER and a FOX SPARROW in Bourne, 3 EURASIAN
WIGEON AND 95 AMERICAN WIGEON at Forge Pond in Plymouth, 1
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL and a NASHVILLE WARBLER
elsewhere in Plymouth, and single WESTERN KINGBIRDS in North
Andover, the Lanesville section of Gloucester, at Fort Hill in
Eastham,
and near the Route 6 rotary in Orleans.

Thank you for calling.
- End Transcript

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