Recap: Red River Birding Walk–Aug. 26, 2021
Today’s sunny morning offered a chance to explore birding the shoreline and salt marsh of the Red River estuary that flows to Nantucket Sound. Here are the 22 species that you as birders of all experience levels saw and heard today. Many thanks to walk leader Peter Trull and photographer Gerry Beetham.
Mourning Dove 6
Semipalmated Plover 2
Sanderling 2
Least Sandpiper 3
Spotted Sandpiper 2
shorebird sp. 2
Bonaparte’s Gull 1
Laughing Gull 12
Ring-billed Gull 2
Herring Gull 12
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Double-crested Cormorant 5
Great Blue Heron 1
Snowy Egret 1
Osprey 2
Cooper’s Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
American Crow 8
Tree Swallow 1
Barn Swallow (American) 4
House Sparrow 1
Saltmarsh Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 1
