Recap: Red River Birding Walk–Aug. 7, 2021
Wow! What a stellar morning to explore the bountiful birding at Red River Beach on Nantucket Sound. Here are the 26 species you saw or heard today. Big thanks to walk leader Peter Trull and photographer Gerry Beetham.
Mourning Dove 1
Semipalmated Plover 1
Whimbrel (Hudsonian) 1
Ruddy Turnstone 16
Sanderling 35
Semipalmated Sandpiper 9
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Solitary Sandpiper 2
Willet (Eastern) 1
Laughing Gull 10
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull 3
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Least Tern 10
Double-crested Cormorant 4
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 1
Snowy Egret 19
Glossy Ibis 7 5 flying in single flock, 2 earlier solos, flying
Osprey 2
Cooper’s Hawk 2
American Crow 2
Barn Swallow 1
European Starling 40
Saltmarsh Sparrow 3
Song Sparrow 1
