Backbay Birding By Boat - Monday, September 26th 2011

A good shorebird show included Short-billed Dowitchers and many Black-bellied Plovers, many of which were juveniles, in crisp appearance. Black and Yellow-crowned Night Herons were around in good numbers as well, and the show-stopping Brown Booby gave great photographic opportunities, surrounded by her cormorant posse.

29 species

Brown Booby  1
Double-crested Cormorant  184
Great Blue Heron  18
Great Egret  38
Snowy Egret  54
Tricolored Heron  2
Black-crowned Night-Heron  25
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron  8
Turkey Vulture  18
Osprey  6
American Kestrel  1
Peregrine Falcon  2
Clapper Rail  4
Black-bellied Plover  62
American Oystercatcher  16
Ruddy Turnstone  36
Sanderling  7
Semipalmated Sandpiper  16
Short-billed Dowitcher  3
Long-billed Dowitcher  2
Laughing Gull  34
Herring Gull  52
Great Black-backed Gull  30
Caspian Tern  8
Forster's Tern  14
Royal Tern  7
Fish Crow  19
Tree Swallow  173
Boat-tailed Grackle  19