Had the good fortune to spend 4 days on CC, Hyannis area base. Ocean/ shore is ¼ mile away. Great marsh w/in walking distance. South side of Cape.

The challenge was for 40 species (got 51).  My plan was to go to P-town one day, look for (from shore) pelagics.

We stopped in at a small pond (town owned) in Marston’s Mills:

Mute Swan 2  (their #’s seem to be increasing. Introduced and aggressive)

Am. Widgeon   16

No. Shoveler    pr.

Gadwall   4

G-w Teal   1 M

Ring-n. Duck   10

Hooded Mergs   8

Red-br. Merg     20

Pied-b. Grebes  2

Mallards  20

On to the shore:

Co. Loon   6

Red-thr. Loon  1

Horned Grebe   18

Co. Eiders   40

Surf Scoter     12

White-w. Scoter    4

Bufflehead     ~ 100

Co. Goldeneye   1  M

Brant   15

Gulls:  Bonaparte’s 1 (more in P-town), Herring, Ring-billed, and Great-BB.

Great-b. Heron   6

Greater Yellowlegs      3

Dunlin     12     all lovely winter plum.

Sanderling    9

Ruddy Turnstone   46

Horned Lark  16

Plus assorted suburban’s.

P-town:   (this was the day it snowed(Friday)…horizontal snow)  not best day to be there, but hay… it’s a cool place.

No. Gannets   (100 +/-)    doing their torpedo diving off shore.

More Bonaparte’s gulls

More Co. Eiders….some so close to the wharf, we could hear them chatting.

Long-tailed Duck   1

Great Cormorant    6   first year.  about the harbor

Snow Buntings     42

Great to see waterfowl, a few shorebirds and some gulls.

BS

Bill Shepard       

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