Back Bay Birding by Boat on The Osprey - Monday, August 12th, 2013

CMBO's Back Bay Birding by Boat saw the return of the scoter duo (Black and Surf), as well single birds of Seaside Sparrow and Tri-colored Heron. Shorebirds are well under their way south, as the large number of Whimbrel and Ruddy Turnstones attested. Leaders: Bob Lubberman & Dave Lord.
29 species

Surf Scoter  1
Double-crested Cormorant  24
Great Blue Heron  14
Great Egret  80
Snowy Egret  91
Tricolored Heron  1
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron  1
Glossy Ibis  2
Osprey  70
Clapper Rail  1
Black-bellied Plover  13
Semipalmated Plover  10
American Oystercatcher  20
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Greater Yellowlegs  4
Willet  11
Whimbrel  11
Ruddy Turnstone  9
Sanderling  6
Semipalmated Sandpiper  55
Short-billed Dowitcher  18
Laughing Gull  1200
Herring Gull  26
Great Black-backed Gull  14
Least Tern  10
Common Tern  40
Forster's Tern  21
Seaside Sparrow  1
Red-winged Blackbird  1

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