Hurricane Irene Birds

Not a trip, but this is as good a place as any to compile Hurricane Irene-related sightings while Massbird is down. Things seem to have caught up with massbird, but I'll update over the next few days to provide a more complete picture.

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8/28

Quabbin Park: WHITE-TAILED TROPICBIRD, Sooty Tern, Parasitic Jaegers, Common and Forster's Terns, Hudsonian Godwits, Ruddy Turnstone, Laughing Gull, Leach's Storm-Petrel (Mark Lynch, Scott Surner, Marshall Iliff)

Fitchburg Airport: Hudsonian Godwits, Red Knots, Sanderlings, Ruddy Turnstone, Black-bellied and Golden Plovers, Jaeger sp (Kevin Bourinot, Tom Pirro)

Barton Cove: Red-necked Phalarope, Common Terns (James P. Smith)

Ononta Lake: White-tailed Tropicbird, storm-petrel sp, Sooty Terns (Jacob Morris-Siegel)

Pontoosuc Lake: Wilson's Storm-Petrel (Kyron Hanson/Jacob Morris-Siegel)

Bass River Mouth: Sooty Tern (Steve Arena)

Mass Maritime: Bridled Tern (Steve Arena)

Winthrop Causeway: Sooty Tern (Matt Garvey)

Westport: Bridled Tern, Gull-billed Tern, Sooty Tern, Storm-Petrels (Paul Champlin)

Lake Massapoag, Sharon: Red-necked Phalarope, Sooty Tern (Will Sweet via eBird)

Concord Prison Fields: Laughing Gull (Willy Hutcheson)

Nantucket: Bridled Tern, Band-rumped Storm-Petrel (Eric LoPresti, Vern Laux)

8/29

First Encounter Beach: not much

Nauset Light Beach: Bridled and Gull-billed Tern (Ed Banks)

Menemsha Beach, Martha's Vineyard: Sandwich Tern (Oliver Burton)

Various terns and skimmers all along the coast (upcoming)