Date: 8/31/26 4:51 pm From: 'Paul Peterson' via Boston Birds <bostonbirds...> Subject: [BostonBirds] 8/31 Third Cliff Highlights:
I birded here from 11:30-2:30, which was a bit beyond mid-tide to high tide:
Great Egret 9 Snowy Egret 7 Great Blue Heron 9 Green-winged Teal 3 at rocky edge of ocean; seemed strange Common Eider 5 Turkey Vulture 1 Osprey 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Semipalmated Plover 100 Black-bellied Plover 18 Semipalmated Sandpiper 15 Least Sandpiper 40 Sanderling 3 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Ruddy Turnstone 6 same area; near arrival point to the ocean (pile of debris which marks the boardwalk trail dowitcher sp. 8 Forster's Tern 2+ Least Tern 6 Common Tern 20 sterna sp. 25 Horned Lark 6 Monarch 2 seen on my way to Third Cliff Orange Sulphur 4 sand dunes Cabbage White 6 Painted Lady 1
Date: 8/22/26 11:22 am From: 'Paul Peterson' via Boston Birds <bostonbirds...> Subject: [BostonBirds] 8/21 Third Cliff in Scituate Highlights
Unfortunately, I got here at low tide (2:00). I birded from 2:00-4:15.The weather cooperated except towards the end of my outing. That's when it started drizzling.
Great Egret 11 Snowy Egret 6 Great Blue Heron 3 Turkey Vulture 1 Osprey 2 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Northern Harrier 2 Killdeer 2 Piping Plover 1 Black-bellied Plover 10 Semipalmated Plover 100 Semipalmated Sandpiper 40 Least Sandpiper 6 Ruddy Turnstone 1 Sanderling 5 Greater Yellowlegs 6 Lesser Yellowlegs 2 Short-billed Dowitcher 26 on river mudflats until the incoming ride swallowed them all up Spotted Sandpiper 2 Roseate Tern 7 Least Tern 20 Common Tern 10 Horned Lark 6 Tree Swallows 2,000 wild guess; over Fourth Cliff; looked like insects; same situation as last time I was here Warbling Vireo 1 Baltimore Oriole 2
Date: 8/17/26 5:23 pm From: 'Paul Peterson' via Boston Birds <bostonbirds...> Subject: [BostonBirds] 8/17 Marbled Godwit, Etc. Third Cliff in Scituate
high tide was at 3:30 p.m.. I birded here from 1:30-4:00. I believe the Marbled Godwit was flushed up out of the marsh by a Northern Harrier, due to the very close time proximity. The godwit flew around for about two minutes and then dropped into the marsh grass on the Marshfield side, but barely. This was about an hour before high tide.
Great Egret 25
Snowy Egret 7
Great Blue Heron 9
Osprey 2
Northern Harrier 2 one twisted and dropped down to try to get a Horned Lark!
Killdeer 11
Semipalmated Plover 1,,000 ?, 2,000 ?
Piping Plover 4
Black-bellied Plover 15
Ruddy Turnstone 1
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Semipalmated Sandpiper hundreds
Least Sandpiper 150 70+40+40; mostly beautiful juveniles. Wow!
Greater Yellowlegs 4
MARBLED GODWIT 1 SEE ABOVE
Short-billed Dowitcher 20 several trying to find a place to land at high tide!
Willet 9
Roseate Tern 7 near tip
Least Tern 90
Common Tern 20
Laughing Gull 20
Tree Swallow 50 guess
Barn Swallow 10
Horned Lark 2
Common Raven 1
Pine Warbler 1
Date: 8/11/26 5:39 pm From: 'Paul Peterson' via Boston Birds <bostonbirds...> Subject: [BostonBirds] 8/11 Third Cliff in Scituate Highlights
I birded here from 1:00-5:00. This was mid-tide to dead low tide. It is amazing how much water goes out from here between the two tides. Large expanses of mud exposed as the tide goes out. The entire cove becomes completely devoid of water
Great Blue Heron 11 seen from the observation platform along the Driftway (actual name of road) Snowy Egret 7 Great Egret 5 Osprey 1 Semipalmated Plover 300+ wild guess (I counted more than two-hundred in the cove alone Piping Plover 3 Black-bellied Plover 10 Killdeer 1 Scituate Country Club Least Sandpiper 30 Semipalmated Sandpiper 5+ (if I had been there at high tide, the birds would be roosting in large groups. They disperse to who knows where when the tide gets low Greater Yellowlegs 5 Lesser Yellowlegs 2 Ruddy Turnstone 7 Willet 4 Sanderling 5 Dowitcher sp. 8; two with absurdly long bills; feeding near ocean edge in pool Roseate Tern 5+ Forster's Tern 1 adult seen and heard; carrying sand lance Common Tern 200 impossible to get good count Least Tern 200 impossible to get a good count Laughling Gull 180
Date: 8/10/26 5:25 pm From: 'Paul Peterson' via Boston Birds <bostonbirds...> Subject: [BostonBirds] 8/10 Fort Hill Roxbury Highlights
no binoculars
Red-tailed Hawk 2 Herring Gull 2 Chimney Swift 1 Mourning Dove 5 Downy Woodpecker 2 Eastern Kingbird 3 in tree; a surprise Blue Jay 2 American Crow 2 Black-capped Chickadee 2+ White-breasted Nuthatch 1+ Carolina Wren 2 American Robin 10 Gray Catbird 9 Northern Mockingbird 5+ European Starling 30 Chipping Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 5 House Finch 5 American Goldfinch 4 House Sparrow 30 Chickens 9 Skunk 2 one dead in road Koi Pond 2 Dawn FRedwood 3 Larch 1 Cabbage White 10
