Backbay Birding By Boat - Sunday, October 16th 2011

Jarvis Sound lit up with impressive birds today. Within a few feet of the Brown Booby, we ran into a trio of Horned Grebes, a Black Skimmer, a Bald Eagle and a Common Loon!

24 species

Brant  16
American Black Duck  2
Common Loon  1
Horned Grebe  3
Brown Booby  1
Double-crested Cormorant  143
Great Blue Heron  18
Great Egret  19
Snowy Egret  7
Tricolored Heron  1
Bald Eagle  1
Northern Harrier  1
Red-tailed Hawk  2
Peregrine Falcon  1
Black-bellied Plover  32
American Oystercatcher  2
Greater Yellowlegs  7
Ruddy Turnstone  47
Laughing Gull  13
Herring Gull  27
Great Black-backed Gull  32
Forster's Tern  12
Black Skimmer  1
Boat-tailed Grackle  3