CMBO's Back Bay Birding by Boat trip was excellent this Sunday morning. Great looks at breeding plumage Sanderlings on the harbor beaches, several Greater Yellowlegs in breeding plumes, and three Tri-colored Herons in Jarvis Sound, were the highlights. Leaders: Bob Lubberman and Dave Lord.
30 species
Double-crested Cormorant 30
Great Blue Heron 11
Great Egret 40
Snowy Egret 75
Tricolored Heron 3
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 3
Osprey 70
Black-bellied Plover 23
Semipalmated Plover 15
American Oystercatcher 16
Spotted Sandpiper 9
Greater Yellowlegs 12
Willet 24 Four "eastern's," twenty "western's"
Whimbrel 10
Ruddy Turnstone 8
Sanderling 12
Semipalmated Sandpiper 50
Short-billed Dowitcher 25
Laughing Gull 1200
Herring Gull 23
Great Black-backed Gull 15
Least Tern 12
Common Tern 50
Forster's Tern 29
Tree Swallow 36
Barn Swallow 10
Seaside Sparrow 4
Red-winged Blackbird 20
Boat-tailed Grackle 8
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