A female ruby throated hummingbird.
(Andrea Mohin/The New York Times/File 2002)
Recent bird sightings (as of July 24) in Eastern Massachusetts as reported by the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
A seawatch from Andrew’s Point in Rockport on July 21 yielded 5 Cory’s shearwaters, 33 greater shearwaters, 11 sooty shearwaters, 1 Manx shearwater, 9 Wilson’s storm-petrels, 5 laughing gulls, and 3 black terns, and another report from Andrew’s Point on Friday included 18 Cory’s shearwaters, 3 greater shearwaters, 2 sooty shearwaters, 10 Wilson’s storm-petrels, 2 Leach’s storm-petrels, 5 laughing gulls, 1 parasitic jaeger, and 6 unidentified jaegers.
Species recorded in Ipswich as part of the Breeding Bird Atlas project included a pair of sharp-shinned hawks, 2 willow flycatchers, 3 brown thrashers, and 5 Eastern towhees. Seen at Plymouth Beach were 52 semipalmated plovers, 21 piping plovers, 828 semipalmated sandpipers, 153 short-billed dowitchers, 340 laughing gulls, 3 roseate terns, roughly 3,100 common terns, 1 arctic tern, 2 nesting black skimmers, 1 ruby-throated hummingbird, and 5 horned larks.
Recent reports from Nantucket included 6 whimbrel, 24 short-billed dowitchers, 1 sandwich tern, and 23 black terns.
Miscellaneous reports included a Hudsonian godwit in Newburyport Harbor, and 7 Manx shearwaters and 130 Bonaparte’s gulls at Revere Beach.
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