Date: 8/22/25 7:07 pm From: Barbara Volkle <barb620...> Subject: [MASSBIRD] Winthrop Fun Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, Etc.
Thanks to Paul Peterson for this report.
Barbara Volkle Northborough, MA <barb620...>
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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:27:20 +0000 (UTC) From: Paul Peterson <petersonpaul63...> Subject: Winthrop Fun Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, Etc.
After birding on Winthrop Beach from 9:30-11:15, I headed over to the nearby Crystal Cove, then Lewis Lake, and, finally, Fishermen's Bend Roost
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 1 Lewis Lake ad. initially perched at the bridge (culvert area); forty-five minutes later, on my 2nd pass, it had moved about thirty-five yards or more over to the left, down low and difficult to see Black-crowned Night-Heron 3 Lewis Lake flushed from a big American Linden behind auto repair Snowy Egret 3 Lewis Lake Killdeer 4 Piping Plover 2 Semipalmated Plover 50 guess Black-bellied Plover 35 Fishermen's Bend Roost (near high tide) White-rumped Sandpiper 12 Semipalmated Sandpiper clueless as to numbers Least Sandpiper 1 Ruddy Turnstone 5 Greater Yellowlegs 8+ Fishermen's Bend American Oystercatcher 18 fourteen Fishermen's Bend; four Crystal Cove Jetty Common Tern FORSTER"s TERN 1 adult breeding plumage flyover Laughling Gull 20 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 rare in Winthrop (Thornton Park)
