Back Bay Birding by Boat on The Osprey - Monday, September 16th, 2013

Another trip up toward Hereford Inlet yielded great birds once again, as many participants saw life birds. A Marbled Godwit feeding on a mud-flat was a highlight, as was the juvenile Little Blue Heron that obligingly sat next to a Snowy Egret.
33 species

Mallard 2
Double-crested Cormorant 12
Great Blue Heron 14
Great Egret 20
Snowy Egret 18
Little Blue Heron 1
Tricolored Heron 4
Black-crowned Night-Heron 4
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 3
Turkey Vulture 17
Osprey 13
Cooper's Hawk 1
Bald Eagle 1
American Oystercatcher 24
Black-bellied Plover 19
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Greater Yellowlegs 14
Whimbrel 1
Marbled Godwit 1
Short-billed Dowitcher 14
Laughing Gull 54
Herring Gull 48
Great Black-backed Gull 34
Caspian Tern 16
Common Tern 3
Forster's Tern 21
Royal Tern 16
Belted Kingfisher 8
Peregrine Falcon 2
Fish Crow 3
Tree Swallow 7
Barn Swallow 2
Boat-tailed Grackle 2

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)

Marbled Godwit [Photo by Dave Lord]