Eastern Massachusetts RBA
May 9, 2008
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- RBA
* Massachusetts
* Eastern
* May 9, 2008
* MAEA0805.09
- Birds mentioned
MISSISSIPPI KITE
PURPLE GALLINULE
WHITE-FACED IBIS
RUFF
Least Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Brown Thrasher
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
AMERICAN REDSTART
Scarlet Tanager
Indigo Bunting
Baltimore Oriole
Cape May Warbler
Hooded Warbler
White-crowned Sparrow
Orchard Oriole
Solitary Sandpiper
Great Crested Flycatcher
Red-eyed Vireo
Veery
CERULEAN WARBLER
Worm-eating Warbler
Ovenbird
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Northern Gannet
Upland Sandpiper
Least Tern
Roseate Tern
Clay-colored Sparrow
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Evening Grosbeak.
White-eyed Vireo
Louisiana Waterthrush
Tricolored Heron
WILSON'S PHALAROPE
American Bittern
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Common Raven
Lincoln's Sparrow
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
- Transcript
hotline: Eastern Massachusetts
date: May 9, 2008
number: (781) 259-8805
to report: anytime day or night, 781-259-2148 (Simon Perkins)
compiler: Simon Perkins, Massachusetts Audubon Society
coverage: Eastern Massachusetts
transcriber: Barbara Volkle barb620@theworld.com
EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS -
This is the Voice of Audubon for Friday, May 9.
On Wednesday, two MISSISSIPPI KITES flew by the hawk watch site at
Pilgrim
Heights in Truro, and the PURPLE GALLINULE that was discovered on
Monday
in Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard was still there at least as
recently as Wednesday.
The gallinule has been in a small pond at the Farm Pond Preserve just
east of the
Oak Bluffs School off Wing Road in Oak Bluffs.
Another or one of the same WHITE-FACED IBISES that was found last
weekend
was still present in the pools along Route 1A just south of Red Gate
Road in
Rowley, and a RUFF was seen again on Wednesday in the fields along
Scotland
Road in Newbury.
Another big wave of migrants arrived yesterday morning. This latest
fallout yielded
reports from various localities in the eastern part of the state. A
sample from the
Fells Reservation in Medford included 1 LEAST FLYCATCHER, 6 GREAT
CRESTED FLYCATCHERS, 8 BROWN THRASHERS, 20 species of wood
warblers including 12 NASHVILLES, 32 NORTHERN PARULAS, 18
MAGNOLIAS, 26 BLACK-THROATED BLUES, a minimum of 400 YELLOW-
RUMPED WARBLERS, 28 BLACK-THROATED GREENS, 33 BLACK-AND-
WHITES, AND 21 AMERICAN REDSTARTS, 4 SCARLET TANAGERS, 5
INDIGO BUNTINGS, and 41 BALTIMORE ORIOLES.
Other counts included 21 species of warblers at the Forest Hills
Cemetery in
Mattapan, and 20 species of warblers at Mount Auburn Cemetery in
Cambridge.
Other reports this week from Mount Auburn Cemetery included 2 CAPE
MAY
WARBLERS, 1 HOODED WARBLER, 2 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS,
and 4 ORCHARD ORIOLES.
A report from Wompatuck State Park in Hingham included 2 SOLITARY
SANDPIPERS, 8 GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHERS, 4 RED-EYED
VIREOS, 3 VEERYS, 3 SCARLET TANAGERS, 1 WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROW, roughly 30 BALTIMORE ORIOLES, and 19 species of wood
warblers including 20 NASHVILLES, 12 NORTHERN PARULAS, 1
CERULEAN WARBLER, 4 WORM-EATING WARBLERS, and roughly
75 OVENBIRDS.
Noted at the Arlington Reservoir were 1 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 7
SOLITARY SANDPIPERS, 8 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, 10 LEAST SAND-
PIPERS, 3 ORCHARD ORIOLES, and 12 BALTIMORE ORIOLES, and
reports from Nantucket this week included 400 NORTHERN GANNETS, 1
UPLAND SANDPIPER, 200 LEAST TERNS, 15 ROSEATE TERNS, 1
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, 2 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS, 4
INDIGO BUNTINGS, 8 ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS, roughly 50
BALTIMORE ORIOLES, 15 ORCHARD ORIOLES, and 1 EVENING
GROSBEAK.
Seen in Nahant were 3 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS, 6 LEAST SANDPIPERS,
1 WHITE-EYED VIREO, and 1 LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH, and
miscellaneous reports this week have included a TRICOLORED HERON and
a WHITE-EYED VIREO at Plum Island, 2 WILSON'S PHALAROPES in
Rowley, 2 AMERICAN BITTERNS and a LESSER BLACK-BACKED
GULL in Westminster, a COMMON RAVEN and a WHITE-EYED VIREO
in Hingham, a CERULEAN WARBLER in Waltham, 2 LINCOLN'S SPARROWS
and 1 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW in the Boston Public Garden,
and a SALTMARSH SHARP-TAILED SPARROW on the Boston Common.
Have a good weekend and thank you for calling.
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