Cape Ann 1/5

A Brookline Bird Club trip to Cape Ann yielded the following highlights.  Temps were 35 - 41 degrees, moderate winds, sunny. Tide was high.

Halibut Point:
Gray Catbird - Gott Ave near the pink house
Pheasant - calling near parking lot
Carolina Wren - 2
Black Guillemot - 2
Long-tailed Duck - 1
Red-necked Grebe - 1
Surf Scoter - 6
Harlequin Ducks - 6

Andrews Point:
Harlequin Ducks - 50
Red-necked Grebe - 1
Black Scoter - 2

Bass Rocks/Elks Club:
Red-necked Grebe - 8
Black Guillemot - 5
Purple Sandpipers - 28
Ruddy Turnstones - 10
Horned Grebe - 1
Harlequin Duck - 2

Jodrey Fish Pier:
Thick-billed Murre - 1 - several hundred yards out - center of harbor.  There both in the morning and just before lunch
Peregrine Falcon - 1 - city hall
Iceland Gull - 1
Ruddy Duck - 1 (in the small cove before the large warehouse on the right)

The Purple Sandpipers and Ruddy Turnstones were on a rock near the water - facing the water at the Elks Club, several hundred yards to your left in a cove.

There were good numbers of Common Eider, White-winged Scoter and Red-breasted Mergansers at several locations.  Did not find the King Eider.

Where are all the Horned Grebes?

All the Razorbills must have been on the Cape...

Thanks to all the birders along the way who shared information with us and thanks to those of you who joined us today!

Barbara Volkle