7/9 Belle Isle Marsh Highlights

[Paul Peterson]

I birded here from 10:15-12:15. The tide was high. I later went to Belle Isle Cemetery near low tide to check out the mudflats of Belle Isle Inlet.

Black-crowned Night-Heron 3     including one Lewis Lake
night-heron sp. 1                       juv, flew in and flew out due to many starlings assaulting it
Great Blue Heron 2+
Great Egret 3
Snowy Egret 3
Osprey 4                       three adults; one young in nest (that I could see)
Killdeer 2                       fifteen at Winthrop Beach
Piping Plover 7               Winthrop Beach
Short-billed Dowitcher 13   
American Oystercatcher 5
Least Sandpiper 15
Willet 15     seen from cemetery on mudflats
Greater Yellowlegs 10
Ruddy Turnstone 5       Winthrop B
Least Tern 9
Common Tern 1
Eastern Kingbird 1     cemetery
Willow Flycatcher 1
flycatcher sp. 1       cemetery
Warbling Vireo 1
Purple Martin 3       usual spot; two adult males and one adult female
Saltmarsh Sparrow 7    all from boardwalk tip
Baltimore Oriole 1

Paul Peterson
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Boston
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