Surner Birding: Cape Cod Weekend

Eight members of the Hampshire Bird Club birded the outer Cape this weekend. The weather was simply outstanding and this land loving group even ventured out on a Dolphin Fleet Whale Watch. We finished with 102 species- Highlights included..Eurasian Wigeon, Rough-legged Hawk and the Broad-billed Hummingbird in Dennis.

Areas covered: Provincetown-Beach Forest, Herring Cove & Whale Watch.
Truro-High Head/Eastham-Fort Hill/Coast Guard Beach/Marsh, Dennis & Marston Mills.

Canada Goose (5)
Mute Swan (7)
Wood Duck (2)
Gadwall (1)
Eurasian Wigeon (1) M.Mills
American Wigeon (67) M.Mills
Am.Black Duck (21)
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal (5) M.Mills
Green-winged Teal (15) P'Town/Eastham
Common Eider (60)
Surf Scoter (72)
White-winged Scoter (57)
Red-breasted Merganser (26)
Wild Turkey (17)
Red-thr.Loon (1)
Common Loon (2)
Cory's Shearwater (29)
Greater Shearwater (22)
Northern Gannet (67)
Double-crested Cormorant (400+)
Great Cormorant (4) P'town
Great Blue Heron (11)
Great Egret (6)
Black-crowned Night-heron (2)
Northern Harrier (1)
Cooper's Hawk (3)
Red-tailed Hawk (3)
Rough-legged Hawk (1-Truro/High Head)
American Coot (2)
Black-bellied Plover (80)
Semi Plover (7) Eastham
Greater Yellowlegs (200+)
Lesser Yellowlegs (2)
Solitary Sandpiper (1) Beach Forest
Red Knot (2)
Sanderling (21)
Semi Sandpiper (34)
Dunlin (80)
Laughing Gull- hundreds-P'town
Bonaparte's Gull (5)
Ring-billed Gull (83)
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Common Tern -Hundreds/P'town
Alcid Sp. (2) probably Razorbills. Whale Watch.
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Broad-billed Hummingbird (1) Still putting on a great show!
Belted Kingfisher (3)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (3)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (2)
Downy Woodpecker (2)
Hairy Woodpecker (2)
N.Flicker (11)
Blue-headed Vireo (2)
Red-eyed Vireo (3)
Blue Jay (75)
American Crow
Fish Crow (5) Wellfleet
Tree Swallow (300+) Truro
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse (15)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (2)
White-breasted Nuthatch (1)
Brown Creeper (1)
Carolina Wren (3)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (22)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (4)
Hermit Thrush (2)
Am. Robin
Gray Catbird (6)
No.Mockingbird (1)
E.Starling
American Pipit (6)
Cedar Waxwing (11)
Tennesse Warbler (1)
Nashville Warbler (1)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (60)
Black-thr,Green Warbler (1)
Pine Warbler (1)
Palm Warbler (5-Western)
Blackpoll Warbler (6)
Common Yellowthroat (1)
Wilson's Warbler (1)
E.Towhee (2)
Chipping Sparrow (2)
Savannah Sparrow (4)
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow (2)
White-thr.Sparrow (14)
White-crowned Sparrow (12)
D.E. Junco (4)
No.Cardinal (8+)
Red-winged Blackbird (13)
Common Grackle (24)
Baltimore Oriole (2)
Purple Finch (4)
House Finch (10)
Pine Siskin (35)
Am.Goldfinch
House Sparrow