Date: 8/2/26 2:36 pm From: Barbara Volkle <barb620...> Subject: [MASSBIRD] 7/31 Third Cliff Highlights
Thanks to Paul Peterson for the following report.
Barbara Volkle Northborough,MA <barb620...>
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Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 18:37:51 +0000 (UTC) From: Paul Peterson <petersonpaul63...> Subject: 7/31 Third Cliff Highlights
Back for round two. I birded here from 1:40-4:40 from high tide to mid-tide. I also did some butterflying at the Scituate Recyle and Solar Panel Farm area, off the Driftway. Quite disturbing too see all those dead animals near the solar panel farm (where the black Scituate Police amphibious? vehicle is always stationed. WHAT'S GOING ON HERE! Rhese animals are still rather fresh in appearance
Great Blue Heron 10 Great Egret 7 Snowy Egret 1 Osprey 2+ Red-tailed Hawk 2 Wild Turkey 1 next to the solar panels Piping Plover 5 Killdeer 8 including five at Scituate Country Club Black-bellied Plover 4 Semipalmated Plover 400 wild guess Semipalmated Sandpiper 1,000 wild guess; uncountable Least Sandpiper 40 Ruddy Turnstone 4 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Sanderling 4 Willet 5 ROSEATE TERN 2 gorgeous adult and juvenille Least Tern 120 Common Tern 60 Belted Kingfisher the Driftway Great Crested Flycatcher 3 the Driftway Horned Lark 5
LEPIDS:
Monarch 11 See Above plus ones seen along my walk to Third Cliff Common Wood-Nymph 4 Black Swallowtail 1 Tiger Swallowtail 2 Spring Azure 1 Orange Sulphur 3 Clouded Sulphur 1 Cabbabe White 40
DEAD ANIMALS:
RACCOON 2 SKUNK 1 laying atop one of the Raccoons SEE ABOVE RED_TAILED HAWK !
