Essex County & Southern New Hampshire Bird Sightings - July 17, 2014

Crane Beach, Ipswich:
Forster's Tern, Roseate Tern, Black Tern, Common Tern, Black Skimmer, Common Loon, Double-crested Cormorant, Great Egret, Semipalmated Plover, Least Tern, Piping Plover, Killdeer, Sanderling, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Dowitcher species, Laughing Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Herring Gull, Great Black-backed Gull,
Mourning Dove, Tree Swallow, Bank Swallow, American Robin, Gray Catbird, Northern Mockingbird, Eastern Towhee, Song Sparrow,
Red-winged Blackbird, Common Grackle

True Road, Salisbury:
Wild Turkey with poults

Scotland Road, Newbury:
Eastern Wood-Peewee, Red-winged Blackbird, Great Horned Owl

Pearson Plaza, Byfield:
Wood Duck, Tree Swallow

Ash Street Swamp, West Newbury:
Marsh Wren, Wood Duck, Eastern Kingbird, Tree Swallow

Hart Road, Newburyport:
Eastern Phoebe, Cooper's Hawk, Tufted Titmouse, Black-capped Chickadee

Amesbury Line Road, Haverhill:
Sharp-shinned Hawk

Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary, Topsfield:
Barred Owl

New Hampshire Seacoast:
Brant, American Black Duck, White-winged Scoter, Black Scoter, Common Loon, Pacific Loon, Red-necked Grebe, Great Blue Heron,
Great Egret, Snowy Egret, Green Heron, Black-crowned Night-Heron, White Ibis, Osprey, Semipalmated Plover, Killdeer, Spotted Sandpiper,
Greater Yellowlegs, Willet, Lesser Yellowlegs, Least Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Short-billed Dowitcher, Bonaparte's Gull,
Laughing Gull, Least Tern, Roseate Tern, Common Tern, Bank Swallow, Savannah Sparrow, Nelson's Sparrow, Saltmarsh Sparrow, Purple Martin

Waters River, Danvers:
Black-crowned Night-Heron, Yellow-crowned Night Heron

Plum Island Turnpike, Newbury:
White-winged Dove

Tuxbury Pond, Amesbury:
Carolina Wren, Brown-headed Cowbird

Andrew's Point, Rockport:
Common Eider, Common Loon, Cory's Shearwater, Great Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Manx Shearwater, Northern Gannet, Double-crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Semipalmated Plover, Spotted Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Laughing Gull, Herring Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Common Tern

Merrimack River, Amesbury:
Bald Eagle, Osprey, Mallard, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Tree Swallow, Belted Kingfisher

St. Mary's Cemetery, Newburyport:
Willow Flycatcher, Eastern Kingbird, Cooper's Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk

Pease Tradeport, Portsmouth, NH:
Red-tailed Hawk, Tree Swallow, Red-eyed Vireo, Willow Flycatcher, Ovenbird, Green Heron, Blue Jay, Red-winged Blackbird, Great Crested Flycatcher, Northern Flicker, Clay-colored Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Killdeer, Indigo Bunting, Common Yellowthroat, Winter Wren, Ovenbird, Scarlet Tanager, Field Sparrow, Killdeer, American Goldfinch, Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Yankee Clipper out of Gloucester:
Great Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Cory's Shearwater, Manx Shearwater, Wilson's Storm-Petrel, Leach's Storm-Petrel, Common Tern, Laughing Gull

Cider Hill Farm, Amesbury:
Osprey

Governor's Academy, Byfield:
Mallard, Tree Swallow, Marsh Wren

Cherry Hill [Indian Hill] Reservoir, West Newbury:
Great Egret, Great Blue Heron, Osprey, Cedar Waxwing, Green Heron, Yellow Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Red-winged Blackbird, American Crow, Canada Goose, Eastern Kingbird, Tree Swallow, Belted Kingfisher, American Robin

Sandy Point State Reservation, Plum Island:
Roseate Tern, Least Tern, Black Skimmer, Piping Plover, Whimbrel

Newburyport Harbor:
Black Tern, Least Tern, Common Tern, Royal Tern, Killdeer, Greater Yellowlegs, Willet, Lesser Yellowlegs, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Short-billed Dowitcher, Bonaparte's Gull

Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Plum Island:
Whimbrel, American Oystercatcher, Royal Tern, Forster's Tern, Sandwich Tern, Gull-billed Tern, Hudsonian Godwit, Laughing Gull, Ring-billed Gull,  Least Bittern, Alder Flycatcher, American Avocet,  Black Guillemot, Wilson's Phalarope, Surf Scoter, Common Loon, Cory's Shearwater, Northern Gannet, Least Bittern, Snowy Egret, Glossy Ibis, Virginia Rail, Stilt Sandpiper, Short-billed Dowitcher, Red-eyed Vireo, Tree Swallow, American Redstart, Orchard Oriole, Purple Martin

"Granite State" out of Rye Harbor, Rye, NH:
Jaeger species, Cory's Shearwater, Great Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Wilson's Storm-Petrel, Northern Gannet, Laughing Gull,
Great Cormorant

Newbury Boat Launch Area, Newbury:
Wood Duck

Moulton Street, Newburyport:
Chimney Swift, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Mourning Dove, House Wren, Downy Woodpecker, Chipping Sparrow, Northern Cardinal, Fish Crow, American Crow, Gray Catbird, Tufted Titmouse, Black-capped Chickadee

River Road, West Newbury:
Mallard, Tree Swallow, Barn Swallow, Sora, Bobolink, Gray Catbird, Brown Thrasher, Wood Thrush

Plum Island Point, Newburyport:
Purple Martin

Woodsom Farm, Amesbury:
Whip-poor-will, Eastern Phoebe, Brown Thrasher, Red-winged Blackbird, European Starling, Common Grackle, Mourning Dove, House Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow, Song Sparrow, American Robin, Barn Swallow, Tree Swallow, Gray Catbird, Baltimore Oriole, Willow Flycatcher, Great Blue Heron, Common Yellowthroat, Yellow Warbler, Blue Jay, Northern Cardinal, American  Goldfinch, Northern Mockingbird, Chimney Swift, Eastern Kingbird, American Crow, Northern Flicker, Cedar Waxwing, Bobolink, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Eastern Meadowlark