Waterfowl Prowl 3/31
From Eddie Giles:
*Yesterday, Mary Keleher and I led our 3rd Waterfowl Prowl for the Brookline Bird Club. The intent of this trip is to try and find as many of the 30 possible species of duck found in the Massachusetts. The weather forecast was for intermittent rain which would get worse as the day progressed. We decided to give it a go anyway, and three other hardy birders joined us. We covered the lower Cape in the morning, and around noon we decide to leave the Cape and head for Fairhaven, Westport, Acoaxet & Seekonk. At that point, a yellow light and a bad cell phone managed to divide the group; a two car rollover and it's resulting one hour traffic jam on Route 25 essentially ended the trip. We ended the day at West Island in Fairhaven with 20 species of duck, 44 species for the day.
Duck highlights only:
DUCKS
Wood
Gadwall
Eurasian Widgeon - Dutchman's Ditch
American Widgeon
American Black Duck
Mallard
Redhead - Little Pond
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup - Siders Pond, Little Pond
Lesser Scaup - Siders Pond, Little Pond
King Eider - Bournedale/Cape Cod Canal
Common Eider
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter - Bournedale/Cape Cod Canal (with Eider flock)
Long-tailed Duck - Monument Beach
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser - Salt Pond
Common Merganser - Lovell's Pond
Red-breasted Merganser
On my way home, I stopped by Walnut Street in Halifax to look for the Greater White-fronted Goose. There was approximately 150 Canadas, but the GWFG was not among them. I then checked the Cumberland Farms fields and the flooded fields **were loaded with waterfowl - Canada Goose (**500+)**, Mallards, American Black Duck, Wood Duck, American Widgeon and Northern Pintail. There must have been over 2,000 birds there - the skies were in constant motion. I also got to watch a large coyote trying to hunt ducks in the flooded fields.*
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*Yesterday, Mary Keleher and I led our 3rd Waterfowl Prowl for the Brookline Bird Club. The intent of this trip is to try and find as many of the 30 possible species of duck found in the Massachusetts. The weather forecast was for intermittent rain which would get worse as the day progressed. We decided to give it a go anyway, and three other hardy birders joined us. We covered the lower Cape in the morning, and around noon we decide to leave the Cape and head for Fairhaven, Westport, Acoaxet & Seekonk. At that point, a yellow light and a bad cell phone managed to divide the group; a two car rollover and it's resulting one hour traffic jam on Route 25 essentially ended the trip. We ended the day at West Island in Fairhaven with 20 species of duck, 44 species for the day.
Duck highlights only:
DUCKS
Wood
Gadwall
Eurasian Widgeon - Dutchman's Ditch
American Widgeon
American Black Duck
Mallard
Redhead - Little Pond
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup - Siders Pond, Little Pond
Lesser Scaup - Siders Pond, Little Pond
King Eider - Bournedale/Cape Cod Canal
Common Eider
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter - Bournedale/Cape Cod Canal (with Eider flock)
Long-tailed Duck - Monument Beach
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser - Salt Pond
Common Merganser - Lovell's Pond
Red-breasted Merganser
On my way home, I stopped by Walnut Street in Halifax to look for the Greater White-fronted Goose. There was approximately 150 Canadas, but the GWFG was not among them. I then checked the Cumberland Farms fields and the flooded fields **were loaded with waterfowl - Canada Goose (**500+)**, Mallards, American Black Duck, Wood Duck, American Widgeon and Northern Pintail. There must have been over 2,000 birds there - the skies were in constant motion. I also got to watch a large coyote trying to hunt ducks in the flooded fields.*
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