Sounds like a great trip! Bob Begin forwarded message:
> From: Alex Wiebe <rabwi...@gmail.com> > Subject: [birding-club-at-cornell-l] Feb 23-25: Coastal Massachusetts Trip > Date: February 8, 2018 at 8:34:18 PM EST > To: birding-club-at-cornel...@cornell.edu > Reply-To: Alex Wiebe <rabwi...@gmail.com> > > Last weekend we had a group of seven people along for a fantastic Algonquin > trip. The highlight was undoubtedly a Northern Hawk Owl seen at close range > on Friday near Ottawa - the best way to kick off a weekend of winter birding > in the northeast! We also had a great finch showing with many Red and > White-winged Crossbills and Pine and Evening Grosbeaks, among more common > species. The full species list can be found below. > > Our next trip will be to coastal Massachusetts on Feb 23-25. We will be > leaving after classes the afternoon of Friday, Feb 23, and will return Sunday > evening. This is another cold trip, but there is some really cool species > potential! The trip ran for the first time last year, and some highlights > included lots of alcids (both murres, Dovekie, and Black Guillemot) and other > coastal winter species like Lapland Longspur and Iceland and Glaucous Gulls. > We will also target Barrow's Goldeneye, King Eider, Black-legged Kittiwake, > and Purple Sandpiper, among other species. > > If you are interested in this trip, please send me an email to get on the > list - we may have limited space! > > Thanks, > Alex > > Algonquin Trip List: > Trumpeter Swan (2) > Gadwall (2) > Redhead (1) > Greater Scaup (50) > Lesser Scaup (1) > White-winged Scoter (80) > Long-tailed Duck (40) > Bufflehead (2) > Common Goldeneye (31) > Common Merganser (42) > Red-breasted Merganser (52) > Ruffed Grouse (1) > Wild Turkey (10) > Red-tailed Hawk (6) > Rough-legged Hawk (2) > Ring-billed Gull (515) > Herring Gull (410) > Iceland Gull (2) > Lesser Black-backed Gull (1) > Glaucous Gull (3) > Great Black-backed Gull (57) > Rock Pigeon (100) > Mourning Dove (20) > Snowy Owl (2) > Northern Hawk Owl (1) > Downy Woodpecker (3) > Hairy Woodpecker (5) > Pileated Woodpecker (1) > Gray Jay (4) > Blue Jay (36) > American Crow (9) > Common Raven (7) > Black-capped Chickadee (44) > Red-breasted Nuthatch (19) > White-breasted Nuthatch (2) > Brown Creeper (3) > Golden-crowned Kinglet (2) > European Starling (12) > Dark-eyed Junco (12) > White-throated Sparrow (1) > Evening Grosbeak (33) > Pine Grosbeak (2) > Purple Finch (11) > Red Crossbill (59) > White-winged Crossbill (25) > Pine Siskin (160) > American Goldfinch (39) > -- > > To leave this listserv send a message with the word "leave" in the subject > and nothing in the body to birding-club-at-cornell-l-requ...@cornell.edu > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
