Tom’s Birding Page

2010 Quarter-Month Status
Birds of Plum Island, Essex County, Massachusetts

Compiled by Tom Wetmore

This table shows the 2010 quarter-month status of the birds of Plum Island. It is based on data collected for inclusion on the Plum Island sigthings web site. The column labeled N shows the number days the species has been reported in 2010.

Status of the Birds of Plum Island — updated September 7, 2010 — day 250

 Species N  Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Snow Goose 10 
Brant 37 
Canada Goose 217 
Mute Swan 123 
Wood Duck 24 
Gadwall 169 
American Wigeon 22 
American Black Duck 204 
Mallard 198 
Blue-winged Teal 81 
Northern Shoveler 18 
Northern Pintail 34 
Green-winged Teal 160 
Ring-necked Duck 10 
Greater Scaup 6 
Lesser Scaup 7 
King Eider 2 
Common Eider 106 
Surf Scoter 31 
White-winged Scoter 111 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Black Scoter 67 
Long-tailed Duck 100 
Bufflehead 85 
Common Goldeneye 62 
Hooded Merganser 48 
Common Merganser 23 
Red-breasted Merganser 102 
Ruddy Duck 24 
Ring-necked Pheasant 1 
Wild Turkey 5 
Red-throated Loon 78 
Common Loon 121 
Pied-billed Grebe 9 
Horned Grebe 66 
Red-necked Grebe 58 
Northern Fulmar 1 
Sooty Shearwater 1 
Manx Shearwater 4 
Wilson's Storm-Petrel 5 
Northern Gannet 73 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Double-crested Cormorant 151 
Great Cormorant 33 
American Bittern 12 
Least Bittern 28 
Great Blue Heron 115 
Great Egret 142 
Snowy Egret 128 
Little Blue Heron 6 
Tricolored Heron 6 
Cattle Egret 1 
Green Heron 7 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 69 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 8 
Glossy Ibis 63 
White-faced Ibis 3 
Turkey Vulture 67 
Osprey 138 
Bald Eagle 45 
Northern Harrier 133 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 30 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Cooper's Hawk 34 
Northern Goshawk 1 
Red-tailed Hawk 62 
Rough-legged Hawk 22 
American Kestrel 45 
Merlin 54 
Peregrine Falcon 76 
Black Rail 18 
Clapper Rail 4 
Virginia Rail 80 
Sora 74 
Common Moorhen 2 
American Coot 1 
Sandhill Crane 1 
Black-bellied Plover 103 
American Golden-Plover 9 
Semipalmated Plover 87 
Piping Plover 79 
Killdeer 144 
American Oystercatcher 3 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Spotted Sandpiper 62 
Solitary Sandpiper 16 
Greater Yellowlegs 136 
Willet 104 
Lesser Yellowlegs 101 
Whimbrel 19 
Hudsonian Godwit 6 
Marbled Godwit 2 
Ruddy Turnstone 38 
Red Knot 29 
Sanderling 55 
Semipalmated Sandpiper 91 
Western Sandpiper 7 
Least Sandpiper 98 
White-rumped Sandpiper 49 
Baird's Sandpiper 6 
Pectoral Sandpiper 20 
Purple Sandpiper 21 
Dunlin 60 
Stilt Sandpiper 40 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 4 
Short-billed Dowitcher 89 
Long-billed Dowitcher 13 
Wilson's Snipe 18 
American Woodcock 38 
Wilson's Phalarope 16 
Red-necked Phalarope 1 
Black-legged Kittiwake 13 
Bonaparte's Gull 45 
Black-headed Gull 13 
Little Gull 1 
Laughing Gull 33 
Ring-billed Gull 180 
Herring Gull 211 
Iceland Gull 11 
Lesser Black-backed Gull 3 
Glaucous Gull 3 
Great Black-backed Gull 206 
Least Tern 101 
Caspian Tern 4 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Black Tern 3 
Roseate Tern 15 
Common Tern 105 
Forster's Tern 6 
Royal Tern 3 
Sandwich Tern 1 
Black Skimmer 1 
Pomarine Jaeger 1 
Razorbill 24 
Black Guillemot 3 
Rock Pigeon 132 
Mourning Dove 192 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 15 
Black-billed Cuckoo 28 
Great Horned Owl 11 
Snowy Owl 75 
Barred Owl 3 
Short-eared Owl 11 
Common Nighthawk 3 
Chuck-will's-widow 1 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Eastern Whip-poor-will 19 
Chimney Swift 33 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 36 
Belted Kingfisher 17 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 3 
Downy Woodpecker 76 
Hairy Woodpecker 23 
Northern Flicker 57 
Olive-sided Flycatcher 2 
Eastern Wood-Pewee 17 
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 12 
Alder Flycatcher 18 
Willow Flycatcher 69 
Least Flycatcher 14 
Eastern Phoebe 63 
Great Crested Flycatcher 41 
Eastern Kingbird 116 
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 22 
Northern Shrike 26 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
White-eyed Vireo 1 
Yellow-throated Vireo 1 
Blue-headed Vireo 21 
Warbling Vireo 12 
Philadelphia Vireo 4 
Red-eyed Vireo 37 
Blue Jay 173 
American Crow 208 
Fish Crow 4 
Common Raven 2 
Horned Lark 33 
Purple Martin 104 
Tree Swallow 147 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 13 
Bank Swallow 62 
Cliff Swallow 7 
Barn Swallow 115 
Black-capped Chickadee 195 
Tufted Titmouse 17 
Red-breasted Nuthatch 23 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
White-breasted Nuthatch 20 
Brown Creeper 11 
Carolina Wren 24 
House Wren 37 
Winter Wren 6 
Marsh Wren 96 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 8 
Golden-crowned Kinglet 21 
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 30 
Eastern Bluebird 3 
Veery 19 
Swainson's Thrush 15 
Hermit Thrush 32 
Wood Thrush 14 
American Robin 207 
Gray Catbird 119 
Northern Mockingbird 182 
Brown Thrasher 123 
European Starling 185 
American Pipit 6 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Bohemian Waxwing 1 
Cedar Waxwing 107 
Lapland Longspur 3 
Snow Bunting 23 
Blue-winged Warbler 5 
Tennessee Warbler 6 
Orange-crowned Warbler 1 
Nashville Warbler 19 
Northern Parula 31 
Yellow Warbler 106 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 15 
Magnolia Warbler 31 
Cape May Warbler 8 
Black-throated Blue Warbler 24 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 35 
Black-throated Green Warbler 32 
Blackburnian Warbler 22 
Pine Warbler 12 
Prairie Warbler 6 
Palm Warbler 27 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Bay-breasted Warbler 11 
Blackpoll Warbler 25 
Black-and-white Warbler 37 
American Redstart 77 
Worm-eating Warbler 2 
Ovenbird 27 
Northern Waterthrush 36 
Louisiana Waterthrush 1 
Kentucky Warbler 4 
Mourning Warbler 17 
Common Yellowthroat 106 
Wilson's Warbler 20 
Canada Warbler 21 
Eastern Towhee 137 
American Tree Sparrow 51 
Chipping Sparrow 24 
Clay-colored Sparrow 1 
Field Sparrow 59 
Savannah Sparrow 91 
Nelson's Sparrow 2 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Saltmarsh Sparrow 71 
Seaside Sparrow 39 
Fox Sparrow 3 
Song Sparrow 166 
Lincoln's Sparrow 12 
Swamp Sparrow 38 
White-throated Sparrow 44 
White-crowned Sparrow 9 
Dark-eyed Junco 33 
Summer Tanager 1 
Scarlet Tanager 13 
Northern Cardinal 169 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 26 
Indigo Bunting 7 
Dickcissel 1 
Bobolink 96 
Red-winged Blackbird 145 
Eastern Meadowlark 36 
Rusty Blackbird 5 
Common Grackle 148 
 Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
Brown-headed Cowbird 106 
Orchard Oriole 45 
Baltimore Oriole 82 
Purple Finch 50 
House Finch 68 
American Goldfinch 162 
House Sparrow 137 

Total species 267. Total reports 31,552. Total sightings 13,160.

September 7, 2010, Tom Wetmore