Back Bay Birding by Boat on The Osprey - Sunday, October 6th, 2013

Sunday's trip was graced with an adult Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, a few Whimbrel feeding along Jarvis Sound, a look at a Savannah Sparrow on a clamshell beach, and a great number of Greater Yellow-legs, trying to find sanctuary in the marsh from the moon tides.
30 species

Brant  8
American Black Duck  9
Double-crested Cormorant  65
Great Blue Heron  12
Great Egret  24
Snowy Egret  30
Tricolored Heron  2
Black-crowned Night-Heron  2
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron  1
Turkey Vulture  3
Osprey  2
Northern Harrier  1
American Oystercatcher  54
Black-bellied Plover  123
Semipalmated Plover  1
Greater Yellowlegs  120
Ruddy Turnstone  60
Dunlin  24
Short-billed Dowitcher  3
Laughing Gull  8
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  32
Great Black-backed Gull  15
Caspian Tern  2
Forster's Tern  200
Royal Tern  9
Belted Kingfisher  11
Savannah Sparrow  1
Red-winged Blackbird  31
Boat-tailed Grackle  19

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