7/26 Winthrop and Belle Isle Marsh Highlights

[Paul Peterson]

High tide 10:50 a.m. I started at Fishermen's Bend Park in Winthrop, followed by Lewis Lake and Winthrop Beach. I then birded all three sections of Belle Isle Marsh. (Lawn Ave., main, and The Key)

Black-crowned Night-Heron 1         flyover at dusk Belle Isle
Great Blue Heron 1+
Snowy Egret 5
Great Egret 2
Surf Scoter 1
Osprey 4+
Semipalmated Plover 1             The Key
Black-bellied Plover 5                Fishermen's Bend rocks (seen from Washington Ave. looking down (from between two houses) 
Killdeer 5                                 Winthrop Beach revealed an ad. supervising two chicks
Piping Plover 8                         Winthrop Beach; together
Sanderling 2                             
American Oystercatcher 7         Fishermen's Bend
Least Sandpiper 20                   The Key
Semipalmated Sandpiper 12
peep sp. 90                              flushed from Snake Island by Peregrine
Greater Yellowlegs 5
Lesser Yellowlegs 4
Least Tern 7                             Winthrop Beach
Common Tern 4                        Snake Island (as seen from Fishermen's Bend Park)
Monk Parakeet 1                       in the aforementioned enormous mulberry on Veterans Rd. near Lewis Lake
BANK SWALLOW 1                  Belle Isle boardwalk and from The Key two hours later
White-breasted Nuthatch 2         Quite a surprise for Winthrop!
Peregrine Falcon 1                    chased away by some oystercatchers! (who nest on the island)
Saltmarsh Sparrow 7                 including two in the area of the rocks at Fishermen's Bend Park!
Monarch Butterfly 8                  incl. two with a Tiger Swallowtail on a butterfly bush

Paul Peterson
peterso...@yahoo.com
Boston