Back Bay Sundowner by Boat - Tuesday, August 5th, 2014

On this week's CMBO Sundowner Cruise aboard the M.V. Osprey, there was a great show of shorebirds. We also had many yellow-crowned night-herons and a stunning clapper rail display. Leaders: Warren Cairo and David Lord.
35 species

Canada Goose  32
Mallard  4
Black Scoter  2
Double-crested Cormorant  14
Great Blue Heron  6
Great Egret  14
Snowy Egret  11
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron  4
Glossy Ibis  11
Osprey  45
Clapper Rail  6
American Oystercatcher  21
Black-bellied Plover  9
Semipalmated Plover  20
Greater Yellowlegs  2
Whimbrel  2
Ruddy Turnstone  5
Sanderling  14
Least Sandpiper  35
Semipalmated Sandpiper  61
Short-billed Dowitcher  24
Laughing Gull  1750
Herring Gull  29
Great Black-backed Gull  17
Least Tern  1
Common Tern  47
Forster's Tern  22
Royal Tern  2
Black Skimmer  9
Mourning Dove  14
Belted Kingfisher  1
Barn Swallow  12
Indigo Bunting  1
Red-winged Blackbird  10
Boat-tailed Grackle  6

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