Fairhaven 11/5

From Bob Stymeist:

I was leading a BBC trip to Fairhaven today, after a cold and windy start at 7:30- eight of us had a wonderful time doing the thickets and shores of Sconiticut Neck talling 83 species and only traveling 18 miles- 5 on foot and 13 in the car!! Five warbler species in November is noteworthy and all of us got good looks at all including the chat. After the trip a Yellow-billed Cuckooo was seen on Shaw Road.

Sconiticut Neck, Fairhaven, Bristol, US-MA
Nov 5, 2011 7:30 AM - 3:45 PM
Protocol: Traveling
18.0 mile(s)
Comments:     5 miles on foot 13 by car Bike path and Neck chilly and windy 40-55F
83 species

Canada Goose  280
Mute Swan  2
Gadwall  2
American Black Duck  58
Mallard  12
Greater Scaup  32
Common Eider  20
Surf Scoter  16
White-winged Scoter  26
Long-tailed Duck  14
Bufflehead  64
Common Goldeneye  2
Hooded Merganser  5
Red-breasted Merganser  460     large concentration=- only a part of what was probably present
Red-throated Loon  2
Common Loon  4
Pied-billed Grebe  2
Horned Grebe  34
Red-necked Grebe  3
Double-crested Cormorant  18
Great Cormorant  6
Great Blue Heron  5
Turkey Vulture  1
Northern Harrier  3
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Cooper's Hawk  3
Red-shouldered Hawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  4
American Coot  8
Black-bellied Plover  4
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Sanderling  6
Dunlin  1
Bonaparte's Gull  20
Laughing Gull  6
Ring-billed Gull  X
Herring Gull  X
Great Black-backed Gull  8
Common Tern  5     Part of a feeding frenzy of birds off West Island- which included several Bonies, Laughing Gulls as well as others
Forster's Tern  2     Part of a feeding frenzy of birds off West Island- which included several Bonies, Laughing Gulls as well as others
Rock Pigeon  46
Mourning Dove  17
Eastern Screech-Owl  2
Belted Kingfisher  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Downy Woodpecker  14
Northern Flicker  6
Blue Jay  5
American Crow  14
Black-capped Chickadee  16
Tufted Titmouse  5
White-breasted Nuthatch  3
Carolina Wren  24     ACTUAL COUNT
Winter Wren  2
Golden-crowned Kinglet  1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  2
Eastern Bluebird  2
Hermit Thrush  4
American Robin  95
Gray Catbird  10     Actual count- less than usual at this location
Northern Mockingbird  11     Seven together - part of family group
Brown Thrasher  1
European Starling  390
Cedar Waxwing  22
Orange-crowned Warbler  1
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Palm Warbler  2
Yellow-rumped Warbler  19
Yellow-breasted Chat  1
Eastern Towhee  3
Field Sparrow  1
Savannah Sparrow  1
Fox Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow  38
Swamp Sparrow  7
White-throated Sparrow  86
Dark-eyed Junco  5
Northern Cardinal  38
Red-winged Blackbird  10
Baltimore Oriole  1
House Finch  77     Probably twice as many!!!  Everywhere!1
American Goldfinch  16
House Sparrow  66