Backbay Birding By Boat - Monday, September 19th 2011

Monday's Back Bay Birding By Boat trip rounded a good bird list. Hawks were out and about, as a Cooper's Hawk and several Peregrine Falcons attested. Tricolored Herons are still hanging around in numbers, with six seen and, of course, everyone's favorite Brown Booby was present with her new "colony" of Double-crested Cormorants at the back of Jarvis Sound."

30 species (+1 other taxa)

Brown Booby  1
Double-crested Cormorant  16
Great Blue Heron  4
Great Egret  28
Snowy Egret  16
Black-crowned Night-Heron  18
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron  7
Osprey  9
Bald Eagle  1
Cooper's Hawk  1
Peregrine Falcon  2
Semipalmated Plover  10
American Oystercatcher  35
Spotted Sandpiper  5
Greater Yellowlegs  9
Whimbrel  2
Ruddy Turnstone  37
Sanderling  4
Semipalmated Sandpiper  8
Western Sandpiper  12
peep sp.  X
Short-billed Dowitcher  5
Laughing Gull  38
Herring Gull  64
Great Black-backed Gull  18
Caspian Tern  1
Common Tern  14
Forster's Tern  32
Royal Tern  3
Red-winged Blackbird  8
Boat-tailed Grackle  17