Date: 7/9/25 4:09 pm From: 'Paul Peterson' via Boston Birds <bostonbirds...> Subject: [BostonBirds] 7/9 Belle Isle Marsh Highlights
I birded here from 10:15-12:15. The tide was high. I later went to Belle Isle Cemetery near low tide to check out the mudflats of Belle Isle Inlet.
Black-crowned Night-Heron 3 including one Lewis Lake
night-heron sp. 1 juv, flew in and flew out due to many starlings assaulting it
Great Blue Heron 2+
Great Egret 3
Snowy Egret 3
Osprey 4 three adults; one young in nest (that I could see)
Killdeer 2 fifteen at Winthrop Beach
Piping Plover 7 Winthrop Beach
Short-billed Dowitcher 13
American Oystercatcher 5
Least Sandpiper 15
Willet 15 seen from cemetery on mudflats
Greater Yellowlegs 10
Ruddy Turnstone 5 Winthrop B
Least Tern 9
Common Tern 1
Eastern Kingbird 1 cemetery
Willow Flycatcher 1
flycatcher sp. 1 cemetery
Warbling Vireo 1
Purple Martin 3 usual spot; two adult males and one adult female
Saltmarsh Sparrow 7 all from boardwalk tip
Baltimore Oriole 1
