Date: 4/19/26 12:20 pm From: 'Paul Peterson' via Boston Birds <bostonbirds...> Subject: [BostonBirds] 4/19 Pectoral Sandpipers at Belle Isle, Etc.
I birded here from 9:40-1:10. The weather wasn't much of a problem, with periods of light rain and mist and several dry periods.
Great Egret 5 Snowy Egret 2 Great Blue Heron 1 Green-winged Teal 27 Bufflehead 10 Red-breasted Merganser 6 Osprey 2 American Kestrel 2 pair on their favorite perch Pectoral Sandpiper 6 maximum; flew in at 11:00; leaving after twenty minutes Greater Yellowlegs 18 yellowlegs sp. 3 Belted Kingfisher 1 Northern Flicker 6 Barn Swallow 3 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1 Tree Swallow x Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1+ along Lawn Ave. (not the trail) Hermit Thrush 2 one Park Place; one Lawn Ave.(but not the trail) Eastern Towhee 1 White-throated Sparrow 5 Swamp Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow 2 in marsh right below boardwalk Dead Canada Goose 1 near tower and even nearer that lone picnic table; on the marsh
