Recap: Red River Birding Walk–Aug. 24, 2021

We’re so glad you ventured out on your birding walk with Peter Trull at Red River Beach on Nantucket Sound. You saw or heard 20 species including shorebird, songbird, and waterfowl species listed below. Many thanks to Peter as walk leader, author, and naturalist as well as photographer Gerry Beetham. Enjoy Gerry’s photo gallery below. Peter will continue to lead these birding adventures into the fall, so be sure to check our “Walks & Events” schedule for upcoming walks.

Common Eider  5
Mourning Dove  1
Semipalmated Plover  1
Ruddy Turnstone  4
Sanderling  16
Spotted Sandpiper  2
Willet (Eastern)  1
Bonaparte’s Gull  1
Laughing Gull  20
Herring Gull  12
Great Black-backed Gull  7
Common Tern  11
Double-crested Cormorant  3
Snowy Egret  3
Osprey  2
American Crow  4
Tree Swallow  6
Barn Swallow (American)  45
Saltmarsh Sparrow  4
Song Sparrow  1