Date: 9/13/26 2:27 pm From: Barbara Volkle <barb620...> Subject: [MASSBIRD] 9/11 Whimbrel at Belle Isle Marsh, etc.
Thanks to Paul Peterson for the following report.
Barbara Volkle Northborough,MA <barb620...>
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Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:33:19 +0000 (UTC) From: Paul Peterson <petersonpaul63...> Subject: 9/11 Whimbrel at Belle Isle Marsh, etc.
On Friday, I birded from 12:00=4:40. I started at Fishermen's Bend Park in Winthrop. From thence, I went to a very dead Winthrop Beach (high tide). I then concluded at Belle Isle Marsh. The WHIMBREL was certainly a very nice surpirse. Also, I had a surpisingly high number of butterfly species. Unless noticed, all birds were from Belle Isle.
Great Blue Heron 1 Great Egret 13 Snowy Egret 18 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Peregrine Falcon 1 Semipalmated Plover 1 (where are they all?) Killdeer 1+ Winthrop Beach Black-bellied Plover 10 Fishermen's Bend Park WIMBREL 1 Furthest panne down; on back side near water's edge; repeatedly popped up its head while feeding Least Sandpiper 10 peep sp. 6 Lesser Yellowlegs 7 Greater Yellowlegs 3 two at Fishermen's Bend Park dowitcher sp. 1 Fishermen's Bend Park Solitary Sandpiper 1 American Oystercatcher 40 F.B. P. also two at Winthrop Beach LEPIDS:
Monarch 7 Spring Azure 4 including one at Winthrop Beach Red Admiral 1 Mourning Cloak 1 Cabbage White 20 Orange Sulphur 10 Clouded Sulphur 3 Horace's Duskywing ? 1 Pearl Crescent 1
