Date: 8/16/25 9:43 pm From: Barbara Volkle <barb620...> Subject: [MASSBIRD] 8/15 The "Spit" at Scituate Highlights
Thanks to Paul Peterson for this report.
Barbara Volkle Northborough, MA <barb620...>
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Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2025 20:23:01 +0000 (UTC) From: Paul Peterson <petersonpaul63...> Subject: 8/15 The "Spit" at Scituate Highlights
I arrived here at high tide, and birded here from 4:15-7:40. I thus was able to see two very large birds roosts at either end of the ocean (the northern rocks and the tip of the "Spit". When the ride was almost mid-way, i was able to see birds feeding. T was spyched to get a target bird here-RED KNOT! What's KNOT to love?
Great Egret 12 seen along the way (fish pier at Driftway Park Snowy Egret 8 ditto Great Blue Heron 2 Northern Harrier 1 near dusk (no surprise) Cooper's Hawk 1 flyover Scituate Golf Club Semipalmated Plover 800 wild guess; impossible to count; total of the two very large roosts Piping Plover 7 Killdeer 2 Black-bellied Plover 15 RED KNOT 1 Willett 3 Greater Yellowlegs 1+ White-rumped Sandpiper 3 Semipalmated Sandpiper 600 wild guess; bunched and carpeting the land! Sanderling 25 Spotted Sandpiper 1 beginning of public boardwalk Ruddy Turnstone 5 Laughing Gull 80 Common Tern 100+ Least Tern 60Fish Crow 2 Driftway Park; in a tree Purple Martin 1 Horned Lark 1+ COMMON BUCKEYE 1 Sadly, not common) White-tailed Deer 2 out in marsh; seen from Driftway Park
P.S. As far as I know, there is no parking near here; there is, however, a commuter rail train stop about one-mile from the station. It is a scenic walk
