Date: 7/29/26 12:05 pm From: 'Paul Peterson' via Boston Birds <bostonbirds...> Subject: [BostonBirds] 7/28 Third Cliff in Scituate Highlights
A nice day to be at the shore, with nary a person in sight. This is most likely due to a low tide. Also, the fact that it was a tuesday.
I always get an excellent bird or more here whenever I visit. I birded from mid-tide to low, from 3:00-6:00
Common Loon 1
Snowy Egret 8
Great Egret 5
Red-tailed Hawk near the station
Bald Eagle 1 ad. flew right by me, scaring up all the birds
Piping Plover 9+
Killdeer 5
Semipalmated Plover 15
Black-bellied Plover 3+
Semipalmated Sandpiper x
White-rumped Sandpiper 1
RED KNOT 2
Sanderling 4+
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Willet 3
Ruddy Turnstone 2+
BLACK TERN 1 ad. roosting on sandbar with Common Terns; beautiful
ROSEATE TERN 2 ditto; calling too
Common Tern 100
Least Tern 300 wild guess
Laughing Gull 50
Great Black-backed Gull 40
Eastern Kingbird 3
Great Crested Flycatcher 2 conservation park (along The Driftway)
Red-eyed Vireo 1 ditto
Common Raven 2 at Third Cliff; later seen at the station (Greenbush Station)
HORNED LARK 4 ad. with three juv.
American Redstart 1 Conservation Park
Pine Warbler 1
LEPIDS:
Tiger Swallowtail 3 various places, including one at Third Cliff
Monarch 2
Cabbage White 5
butterfly sp. 1
P.S. Paul Bowers told me my friends could park in front of his house to bird at Third Cliff. He lives on Collier Rd. at the corner of Lincoln Rd. It's the house with the flagpole in the yard. This is a short walk from the Third Cliff entrance, whick is located where Collier Rd. meets Moorland Rd. (at the turn, and very difficult to see
