Backbay Birding By Boat - Monday, October 3rd 2011

"The Brown Booby is still being admired by our patrons, and hawk migration has kicked into high gear for the season!"

31 species

American Black Duck  8
Brown Booby  1
Double-crested Cormorant  216
Great Blue Heron  26
Great Egret  39
Snowy Egret  17
Little Blue Heron  1
Tricolored Heron  2
Black-crowned Night-Heron  25
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron  3
Turkey Vulture  16
Osprey  3
Cooper's Hawk  4
American Kestrel  2
Merlin  1
Black-bellied Plover  32
American Oystercatcher  26
Greater Yellowlegs  7
Ruddy Turnstone  54
Sanderling  3
Semipalmated Sandpiper  16
Least Sandpiper  9
Dunlin  15
Laughing Gull  17
Ring-billed Gull  3
Herring Gull  26
Great Black-backed Gull  18
Caspian Tern  2
Royal Tern  2
Red-winged Blackbird  45
Boat-tailed Grackle  10