Date: 8/5/26 8:47 pm From: Barbara Volkle <barb620...> Subject: [MASSBIRD] 8/4 Things are TERNING out Very Well at Third Cliff in Scituate
Thanks to Paul Peterson for the following report.
Barbara Volkle Northborough,MA <barb620...>
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Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 21:11:00 +0000 (UTC) From: Paul Peterson <petersonpaul63...> Subject: 8/4 Things are TERNING out Very Well at Third Cliff in Scituate
This place never fails to deliver the goods. I was there from 12:45-3:45, which translates to mid-high tide. I did the usual loop, which is perhaps one and one-half miles long. It may feel longer due to having to walk on the sand and on some rocks.
Great Blue Heron 1 Great Egret 7 Snowy Egret 1 Black-bellied Plover 11 Piping Plover 12 Killdeer 2 Semipalmated Plover 200 guess (did have a group of one-hundred and fifty) Semipalmated Sandpiper 1,000 uncountable (getting flushed, too densely packed) Least Sandpiper 4 Willet 2 basic plumage Short-billed Dowitcher 1 Ruddy Turnstone 8 Sanderling 16 Forster's Tern 4 in mixed tern flock right in front of me on the beach at around 2:00 p.m.; repeatedly flushed but then went just a bit down the beach Roseate Tern 26 Common Tern 60 Least Tern 100 Horned Lark 2
