Eastern Massachusetts RBA
May 12, 2008
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- RBA
* Massachusetts
* Eastern
* May 12, 2008
* MAEA0805.12
- Birds mentioned
WHITE-FACED IBIS
WESTERN TANAGER
Long-tailed Duck
Least Sandpiper
CASPIAN TERN
FORSTER'S TERN
COMMON TERN
WHIP-POOR-WILL
Purple Martin
Golden-winged Warbler
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Yellow-throated Vireo
Veery
Bicknell's Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Tennessee Warbler
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Canada Warbler
Lincoln's Sparrow
Indigo Bunting
Bobolink
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Wilson's Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Brown Thrasher
Wood Thrush
White-crowned Sparrow
Bald Eagle
ROSEATE TERN
LEAST TERN
Yellow-throated Warbler
Summer Tanager
Dark-eyed Junco
Dickcissel
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Evening Grosbeak
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER
Glossy Ibis
Lesser Yellowlegs
Wilson's Phalarope
Manx Shearwater
ARCTIC TERN
White-eyed Vireo
Tricolored Heron
- Transcript
hotline: Eastern Massachusetts
date: May 12, 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 Monday, May 12.
One of the two WHITE-FACED IBISES that were first found over a week
ago
was seen again yesterday in the fields off Scotland Road in Newbury,
and on
Saturday a WESTERN TANAGER was seen briefly in the middle of the
Middlesex Fells but has not been reported since.
Weekend reports from the Newburyport/Plum Island area included 1400
LONG-TAILED DUCKS, 130 LEAST SANDPIPERS, 1 CASPIAN TERN,
2 FORSTER'S TERNS, 9 COMMON TERNS, several WHIP-POOR-WILLS,
10 PURPLE MARTINS, and a GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER, and seen
at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge were 3 RUBY-THROATED
HUMMINGBIRDS, 1 YELLOW-THROATED VIREO, 2 VEERYS, 1
BICKNELL'S THRUSH, 1 SWAINSON'S THRUSH, 27 species of wood
warblers including 2 TENNESSEES, 23 NORTHERN PARULAS, 25
MAGNOLIAS, 2 CAPE MAYS, 28 BLACK-THROATED BLUES, 1 BAY-
BREASTED WARBLER, 1 CERULEAN WARBLER, 30 BLACK-AND-
WHITES, 1 LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH, and 2 CANADA WARBLERS,
1 LINCOLN'S SPARROW, 1 INDIGO BUNTING, 2 BOBOLINKS, 3
ORCHARD ORIOLES, and 13 BALTIMORE ORIOLES.
A report from Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain included 18
species
of wood warblers including 1 WILSON'S WARBLER and 1 HOODED
WARBLER, 2 BROWN THRASHERS, 1 VEERY, 1 SWAINSON'S THRUSH,
2 WOOD THRUSHES, 2 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS, and 3
ORCHARD ORIOLES, and weekend reports from Nantucket included
1 BALD EAGLE, 77 ROSEATE TERNS, 250 LEAST TERNS, 25 COMMON
TERNS, 1 YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, 3 SUMMER TANAGERS,
12 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS, 7 DARK-EYED JUNCOS, 1
DICKCISSEL, 30 ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS, 4 INDIGO BUNTINGS,
77 BALTIMORE ORIOLES, 15 ORCHARD ORIOLES, and 1 EVENING
GROSBEAK.
Miscellaneous reports from the weekend included an OLIVE-SIDED FLY-
CATCHER in North Andover, 40 GLOSSY IBISES in Newbury, 137 LESSER
YELLOWLEGS and 3 WILSON'S PHALAROPES in Rowley, a CASPIAN
TERN and 6 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS in Gloucester, 5 WHITE-
CROWNED SPARROWS and 16 species of wood warblers at the Ipswich
River sanctuary in Topsfield, a LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH in Nahant,
3 MANX SHEARWATERS and an ARCTIC TERN at Revere Beach, a WHIP-
POOR-WILL in Medford, 2 LINCOLN'S SPARROWS in Concord, a WHITE-
EYED VIREO in Waltham, a WHITE-EYED VIREO and a WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROW at Franklin Park in Jamaica Plain, 19 species of warblers
including
1 TENNESSEE, 1 CAPE MAY, and 2 HOODED WARBLERS at Wompatuck
State Park in Hingham, and 1 TRICOLORED HERON in Mashpee.
Thank you for calling.
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