Date: 7/9/25 8:04 pm From: Barbara Volkle <barb620...> Subject: [MASSBIRD] 7/9 Belle Isle Marsh Highlights
Thanks to Paul Peterson for this report.
Barbara Volkle Northborough, MA <barb620...>
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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 23:09:17 +0000 (UTC) From: Paul Peterson <petersonpaul63...> Subject: 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
