Winthrop Fun Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, Etc.

[Paul Peterson]

After birding on Winthrop Beach from 9:30-11:15, I headed over to the nearby Crystal Cove, then Lewis Lake, and, finally, Fishermen's Bend Roost

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 1 Lewis Lake ad. initially perched at the bridge (culvert area); forty-five minutes later, on my 2nd pass, it had moved about thirty-five yards or more over to the left, down low and difficult to see
Black-crowned Night-Heron 3 Lewis Lake flushed from a big American Linden behind auto repair
Snowy Egret 3 Lewis Lake
Killdeer 4
Piping Plover 2
Semipalmated Plover 50 guess
Black-bellied Plover 35 Fishermen's Bend Roost (near high tide)
White-rumped Sandpiper 12
Semipalmated Sandpiper clueless as to numbers
Least Sandpiper 1
Ruddy Turnstone 5
Greater Yellowlegs 8+ Fishermen's Bend
American Oystercatcher 18 fourteen Fishermen's Bend; four Crystal Cove Jetty
Common Tern
FORSTER"s TERN 1 adult breeding plumage flyover
Laughling Gull 20
White-breasted Nuthatch 1 rare in Winthrop (Thornton Park)

Paul Peterson
peterso...@yahoo.com
Boston