New Hampshire Coast November 2010
Steve Mirick's Report:
Notes: All day field trip with the Brookline Bird Club
8:00 AM to 3:00 PM 22 participants Overcast and cold 38-44F winds NNW 15 to 20 knots. High seas (8-9 feet offshore at Jeffrey's Ledge) made offshore viewing of ducks on water more difficult. Number of species: 64
Coastal coverage including Hampton Harbor, Hampton Beach State Park, Bicentennial Park, Eel Pond, Ragged Neck, Odiorne Point State Park, and the Urban Forestry Center. Finishing trip to Salisbury for staked out Saw-whet Owl. Very difficult day for land birds with very almost none at Odiorne and very few at Urban Forestry Center in stark contrast to recent days.
Complete list with a few great photos taken by Len Medlock:
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Pintail 1 One female/imm. male seen for 2nd day in a row SITTING WITH ROOSTING GULLS IN HAMPTON BEACH STATE PARK. Very odd location.
Common Eider
HARLEQUIN DUCK 2 Pair picked out by Judith Silver at Odiorne Point State Park. I believe this is my first record for this location. A hard bird to find in NH.
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter All three species of scoters in good numbers off Hampton Beach, but hard to pick out in high seas.
Long-tailed Duck Several from Bicentennial Park.
Bufflehead Several in Eel Pond.
Red-breasted Merganser
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe 2 Two in Eel Pond.
Horned Grebe Apparently one seen in Hampton harbor that I did not see.
Red-necked Grebe Two together at Odiorne.
Northern Gannet Mostly distant views, but a few relatively close birds from Odiorne.
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture 1 One at Urban Forestry Center.
Northern Harrier 1 One seen migrating in from offshore at Odiorne.
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk
Merlin 1
American Coot Several on Eel Pond.
Black-bellied Plover 85 Good number for date roosting in Hampton Beach State Park.
Semipalmated Plover 2 Two lingering on Hampton Beach.
Sanderling
SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER 1 One late bird with other roosting shorebirds at Hampton Beach State Park.
Purple Sandpiper 3 Nice view of three on breakwater at Rye Harbor.
Dunlin Large number (200+) roosting in Hampton Beach State Park.
Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
ICELAND GULL 1 First winter bird continues in Hampton harbor. Our first of winter.
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL 1 One 3rd winter bird in Hampton harbor picked out by Lauren Kras.
COMMON TERN 1 Very surprising sighting of bird flying out of Hampton harbor inlet from Hampton Beach State Park. Picked out by Ben Griffith. Our first since September 21st! I believe my latest NH record by one day!
Rock Pigeon
Downy Woodpecker
Blue Jay
American Crow
Horned Lark
Black-capped Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2 Both at Urban Forestry Center.
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper 1 Nice views of one at Odiorne.
Carolina Wren 1 One heard near Eel Pond.
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 Only one for day seen coming in from offshore and landing in American Beach Grass at Hampton Beach State Park!
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler Remarkably hard to find. Only one or two fly overs.
Savannah Sparrow (Ipswich) 1 One in Beach Grass at Hampton Beach State Park.
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco 1 One seen in wrack line at Ragged Neck!
Snow Bunting 200 Much fewer than yesterday when 780 counted at Hampton Beach State Park in one flock! Yesterday's was my largest single flock I've ever counted. For the fun of it, Jane and I actually counted the flock with some stitched photos last night and got the 780.
Northern Cardinal
Brown-headed Cowbird Small flock noted along Route 1A in Rye.
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
And the last bird of the day.......down at Salisbury Beach State Reservation in Salisbury, MA:
NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL - 1 roosting low in pines.
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