RBA: Eastern MA 11/02/09

[Jason Forbes-2]

- RBA
* Massachusetts
* Eastern
* November 02, 2009
* MAEA0911.02

- Birds Mentioned
Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
CACKLING GOOSE
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Harlequin Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Red-throated Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Great Egret
Northern Harrier
American Coot
American Golden-Plover
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Hudsonian Godwit
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Laughing Gull
Common Tern
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
Northern Shrike
Common Raven
Horned Lark
American Pipit
American Tree Sparrow
LE CONTE'S SPARROW
White-crowned Sparrow
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting

- Transcript
Hotline:      Eastern Massachusetts
Date:         November 02, 2009
Number:     [phone]
To Report:   anytime day or night, 781-259-2148 (Simon Perkins)
Compiler:   Simon Perkins, Massachusetts Audubon Society
Coverage:    Eastern Massachusetts
Transcriber: Jason Forbes  jason@...

VOICE OF AUDUBON FOR MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2 (2009)

The LECONTE'S SPARROW at the Cumberland Farms fields in Middleboro was  
still there at least as recently as yesterday, and other weekend  
reports from the Cumberland Farms fields included 4 NORTHERN HARRIERS,  
1 NORTHERN SHRIKE, 5 AMERICAN PIPITS, 1 AMERICAN TREE SPARROW, and 4  
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS.

Weekend reports from Plum Island included 1 CACKLING GOOSE, 30  
NORTHERN SHOVELERS, 2 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, 1 LAPLAND LONGSPUR, and  
35 SNOW BUNTINGS, and in Ipswich there were 5 SNOW GEESE, 1 CACKLING  
GOOSE, 1 GREAT EGRET, 1 HUDSONIAN GODWIT, 21 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS,  
1 PECTORAL SANDPIPER, 50 HORNED LARKS, and 20 AMERICAN PIPITS.

Seen in the farm fields near the West Concord rotary were 1 CACKLING  
GOOSE, 62 KILLDEER, 2 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, and 1 AMERICAN PIPIT, and  
at the Great Meadows refuge in Concord there were 2 BLUE-WINGED TEAL,  
11 NORTHERN PINTAILS, 4 GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 4 RING-NECKED DUCKS, 1  
BUFFLEHEAD, 3 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 12 AMERICAN COOTS, a late SPOTTED  
SANDPIPER, and 3 AMERICAN TREE SPARROWS.

A report from Westport included 14 RED-THROATED LOONS, 7 PIED-BILLED  
GREBES, 5 GREAT EGRETS, 7 HARLEQUIN DUCKS, 8 RUDDY DUCKS, 8 GREATER  
YELLOWLEGS, 1 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 2 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, and 19  
LAUGHING GULLS, and miscellaneous reports from the weekend included 2  
RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS in Dracut, 20 RUDDY DUCKS and 3 PIED-BILLED  
GREBES in Melrose, a COMMON RAVEN in Lynnfield, 2 COMMON GOLDENEYE in  
Lincoln, 12 COMMON MERGANSERS and a RED-NECKED GREBE at the Cambridge  
Reservoir in Waltham, a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE in Sharon, a LEAST  
SANDPIPER in Scituate, a NORTHERN SHRIKE and a SNOW BUNTING at the  
Daniel Webster sanctuary in Marshfield, and 2 COMMON TERNS in Plymouth.


Thank you for calling.
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