Back Bay Birding by Boat on The Osprey - Monday, October 28th, 2013

Highlights include a nearly breeding plumed Common Loon, several flocks of Ruddy Ducks, and a good 1500 Brant. A number of Boat-tailed Grackles seem to be gathering in their winter roost flocks as well. Leader: Dave Lord.
31 species (+1 other taxa)

Brant  1600
American Black Duck  15
scoter sp.  200
Bufflehead  4
Ruddy Duck  18
Common Loon  3
Double-crested Cormorant  26
Great Blue Heron  6
Great Egret  12
Snowy Egret  3
Turkey Vulture  8
Northern Harrier  2
Red-tailed Hawk  2
American Oystercatcher  34
Black-bellied Plover  16
Killdeer  2
Greater Yellowlegs  6
Ruddy Turnstone  12
Sanderling  14
Dunlin  500
Laughing Gull  1
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  14
Great Black-backed Gull  6
Royal Tern  1
Belted Kingfisher  6
Fish Crow  45
Tree Swallow  5
European Starling  154
Yellow-rumped Warbler  7
Red-winged Blackbird  12
Boat-tailed Grackle  25

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