On Saturday Jeff Johnstone led the Athol Bird and Nature clubs trip into the gate 33 to gate 40 area of Quabbin. Despite the rain we still managed to see 52 Species.
Highlights were:
1 Long-tailed Duck, Lake Mattawa, orange
14 Common Loon
3 Horned Grebe
1 Double-crested Cormorant
14 Hooded Merganser
4 Common merganser
66 Ring-necked Ducks
32 Mallard
12 Black Duck
1 Green-winged Teal
2 Bonapart's Gull
2 Herring Gull
4 Ring-billed Gull
5 Bald Eagle, 4 ad. 1 3dyr. all at the same spot
near gate 35
1 Red-tailed Hawk
1 Ruffed Grouse
5 Wild Turkey
11 Black-bellied Plover
1 Pectoral Sandpiper
7 Greater Yellowlegs
1 Snipe
65 Dunlin
1 Killdeer
All the shorebirds were at Grave's Landing
2 Woodcock
2 Belted Kingfisher
1 Pileated Woodpecker
1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1 Easter Bluebird
1 Hermit Thrush
2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
50+ Yellow-rumped Warbler
9 Palm Warbler
1 White-crowned Sparrow
2 Swamp Sparrow
3 Fox Sparrow
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Jacob Morris-Siegel
Royalston Ma.
dendroica1@yahoo.com
If you wish to volunteer to lead a trip please contact
ABNC
Biodays Coordinator Sue Cloutier at cloutier@tiac.net 978-544-7500
Dave Small
Athol, Massachusetts
dhsmall@gis.net
www.gis.net~dhsmall