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9/5/2015 Charlestown area hotspots trip

9/17/2015

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Charlestown Area Hotspots
9/5/2015
Leader – Dan Berard
Participants – 10

The meeting location for this trip and nearby locations really allows us to be flexible and cater the trip based on what the birds are doing. The previous night saw consistent southerly winds which can be difficult for warblers, but can often be good for other migrants such as vireos, flycatchers, grosbeaks etc. This combined with good timing for ducks made for the decision to quickly check Cards Pond, head to Moonstone Beach to walk the tide line searching for shorebirds and coastal migrants, and then head to Trustom for ducks, herons and passerines.

The trip was off to a great start even at the meeting location as we tallied several species including Broad-winged Hawk, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Yellow-rumped Warbler and Baltimore Oriole. 

Cards Pond proved to be a little slow with just a handful of ducks and several hummingbirds, swallows and migrant passerines still flying overhead. Soon after arriving, we got word of several interesting shorebirds at Moonstone Beach and headed directly there.

Moonstone Beach did not disappoint and we were treated to a mass of staging Tree Swallows that numbered more than 8,000! A quick walk down the beach to the ‘cut’ near Trustom gave excellent views of this impressive flock as well as a Merlin that Alex Patterson found. At the cut, we got excellent views of Buff-breasted and Baird’s Sandpipers.

Trustom Pond had a smattering of migrant passerines with a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher being the highlight. The pond itself had some interesting birds with Blue-winged Teal, American Wigeon, Northern Pintail, Common Gallinule, American Coot and Black Tern as notable sightings.

Non-bird highlights included several Monarchs, a Cloudless Sulphur, and a Carolina Saddlebags.

Here is the full species list – 
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Wood Duck
American Wigeon
Mallard
American Black Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Pintail
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Merlin
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird’s Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher

Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Common Tern
Least Tern
Black Tern
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher

Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Tree Swallow
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
House Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Gray Catbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Blue-winged Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
American Redstart
Black-and-white Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Eastern Towhee
Song Sparrow
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Baltimore Oriole
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
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