- RBA
* Massachusetts
* Eastern
* November 6, 2009

- Birds Mentioned
LARK BUNTING
Red-throated Loon
Northern Harrier
Rough-legged Hawk
Black-bellied Plover
Short-eared Owl
Northern Shrike
American Pipit
Ipswich-type Savannah Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Blue Grosbeak
Black Scoter
Cackling Goose
Northern Shoveler
Stilt Sandpiper
Snow Bunting
Greater Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Northern Gannet
Great Cormorant
Purple Sandpiper
Black-legged Kittiwake
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Pomarine Jaeger
Orange-crowned Warbler
Redhead
Canvasback
American Wigeon
Lesser Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Baltimore Oriole
Rusty Blackbird
Wood Duck
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Ruddy Duck
Hooded Merganser
Pied-billed Grebe
American Coot
Canvasback
Ruddy Duck
Cory's Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Black-legged Kittiwake
Common Tern
Red-headed Woodpecker
Common Raven
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
WESTERN KINGBIRD

- Transcript
hotline:      Eastern Massachusetts
date:           November 6, 2009
number:     (781) 259-8805
to report:   anytime day or night, 781-259-2148 (Simon Perkins)
compiler:   David Larson, Massachusetts Audubon Society
coverage:    Eastern Massachusetts
transcriber: Barbara Volkle    barb620@theworld.com

EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS

This is the Voice of Audubon for Friday, November 6.

A LARK BUNTING discovered at the Cumberland Farms fields in 
Middleboro
on Wednesday was still there today, and other reports from the 
Cumberland
Farms fields this week included a flyover RED-THROATED LOON, 6
NORTHERN HARRIERS, 1 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, 4 BLACK-BELLIED
PLOVERS, 1 SHORT-EARED OWL, 1 NORTHERN SHRIKE, 70 AMERICAN
PIPITS, an IPSWICH-TYPE SAVANNAH SPARROW, 12 WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROWS, and 1 BLUE GROSBEAK.

Flocks of migrant BLACK SCOTERS were noted in numerous ponds and 
lakes
across much of the state this week. Sample counts included 916 at 
Wachusett
Reservoir, 38 at Flint Pond in Lincoln, 175 at the Cambridge 
Reservoir in
Waltham, 28 at Fresh Pond in Cambridge, 18 in the Lower Mystic Lake 
in
Medford, roughly 200 at Lake Massapoag in Sharon, and 150 at Lake
Assawompsett in Lakeville.

Reports from Plum Island this week have included 1 CACKLING GOOSE, 20 

NORTHERN SHOVELERS, 2 late STILT SANDPIPERS, a NORTHERN
SHRIKE, and 3 SNOW BUNTINGS, and noted from various points around
Cape Ann were 1100 GREATER SHEARWATERS, 1 SOOTY SHEARWATER,
800 NORTHERN GANNETS, 110 GREAT CORMORANTS, 2 PURPLE
SANDPIPERS, 5 BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES, 4 ICELAND GULLS,
1 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, 4 POMARINE JAEGERS, 1 ORANGE-
CROWNED WARBLER, and 2 SNOW BUNTINGS.  On Nantucket,
  reports included 12 REDHEADS, 6 CANVASBACKS, 44 AMERICAN
WIGEON, 5000 LESSER SCAUP, 15,000 LONG-TAILED DUCKS,
ORANGE-CROWNED AND NASHVILLE WARBLERS, 3 BALTIMORE
ORIOLES, 3 SNOW BUNTINGS and a RUSTY BLACKBIRD.

Recent reports from the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in 
Concord
included 20 WOOD DUCKS, 8 NORTHERN PINTAILS, 22 GREEN-WINGED
TEAL, 8 RING-NECKED DUCKS, 10 RUDDY DUCKS, 11 HOODED
MERGANSERS, 2 PIED-BILLED GREBES, 9 AMERICAN COOTS,
and 1 NORTHERN HARRIER, and at Fresh Pond in Cambridge, in
addition to the aforementioned Black Scoters, there were 7 CANVAS-
BACKS, 125 RING-NECKED DUCKS, 22 RUDDY DUCKS, and 8
HOODED MERGANSERS.

Seen on Tuesday at Race Point in Provincetown were 4 CORY'S SHEAR-
WATERS, 860 GREATER SHEARWATERS, 9 MANX SHEARWATERS,
800 unidentified shearwaters, 1100 NORTHERN GANNETS, 410 BLACK-
LEGGED KITTIWAKES, 120 COMMON TERNS, 3 POMARINE JAEGERS,
and 7 unidentified jaegers, and miscellaneous reports this week have
included 2 or 3 RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS in Lowell, 2 LONG-
TAILED DUCKS at Lake Nagog in Acton, 2 COMMON RAVENS in
Concord, an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER at Fresh Pond in
Cambridge, 2 CACKLING GEESE and 4 NORTHERN SHOVELERS at
Franklin Park in Boston, a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE in
Sharon, and a late YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO and a WESTERN
KINGBIRD at Fort Hill in Eastham.

Have a good weekend and thank you for calling.
- End Transcript

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