RBA: Eastern MA 11/13/09

[Barbara Volkle and Steve Moore]

- RBA
* Massachusetts
* Eastern
* November 13, 2009

- Birds Mentioned
WESTERN TANAGER
Barred Owl
Black-throated Green Warbler
Townsend's Warbler (not reported)
Lark Bunting (not reported)
Cackling Goose
Northern Shoveler
Green-winged Teal
Greater Scaup
Greater Yellowlegs
White-rumped Sandpiper
Northern Shrike
Lark Sparrow
Common Goldeneye
Long-tailed Duck
Common Eider
Black Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Greater Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Northern Gannet
Black-legged Kittiwake
Bonaparte's Gull
Common Tern
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Atlantic Puffin
Razorbill
Thick-billed Murre
Red-headed Woodpecker
Orange-crowned Warbler
Vesper Sparrow
Western Kingbird

- Transcript
hotline:      Eastern Massachusetts
date:           November 13, 2009
number:     [phone]
to report:   anytime day or night, 781-259-2148 (Simon Perkins)
compiler:   Simon Perkins, Massachusetts Audubon Society
coverage:    Eastern Massachusetts
transcriber: Barbara Volkle    barb620@...

EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS

This is the Voice of Audubon for Friday, November 13.

A WESTERN TANAGER was discovered today just to the west of the Lagoon

in the Boston Public Garden, and other birds there included 1 BARRED
OWL
and a late BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER.

Both the TOWNSEND'S WARBLER at Wing Island in Brewster and the
LARK BUNTING at the Cumberland Farms fields in Middleboro were
last reported on Monday.

The 7 CACKLING GEESE that have been commuting between their roost
site at Stage Island on Plum Island and their feeding area in the
fields
bordered by Northgate Road and Rt. 133 in Ipswich were still present
in
the Ipswich fields today.

Other reports from Plum Island this week included 25 NORTHERN
SHOVELERS, 30 GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 15 GREATER SCAUP, 3
GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 6 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, 1
NORTHERN SHRIKE, and 1 LARK SPARROW, and seen on a boat
trip from Amesbury, down the Merrimac River, through Newburyport
Harbor, and into the waters east of Plum Island were 3 COMMON
GOLDENEYE, 8 LONG-TAILED DUCKS, roughly 500 COMMON
EIDERS, 350 BLACK SCOTERS, 500 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS,
800 RED-THROATED LOONS, 60 COMMON LOONS, and 2
HORNED GREBES.

Two-day totals of seabirds counted at Race Point in Provincetown
on Wednesday and Thursday included 6 RED-NECKED GREBES,
430 GREATER SHEARWATERS, 1 SOOTY SHEARWATER,
roughly 2100 NORTHERN GANNETS, 65 BLACK-LEGGED
KITTIWAKES, 665 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, 120 COMMON
TERNS, 3 POMARINE JAEGERS, 6 PARASITIC JAEGERS, 2
ATLANTIC PUFFINS, 43 RAZORBILLS, and 1 THICK-BILLED
MURRE.

Miscellaneous reports this week have included 4 RED-HEADED
WOODPECKERS in Lowell, an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER
in the Fenway section of Boston, a VESPER SPARROW in
Middleboro, and single WESTERN KINGBIRDS in Gloucester
and at the Daniel Webster sanctuary in Marshfield.

Have a good weekend and thank you for calling.
- End Transcript

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