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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