July–August 2008
The Brookline Bird Club pelagic in July attracted a very confiding Bridled Tern. Two Ruffs were at Plum Island in July. On August 22, South Beach, Chatham scored a very rare Greenland Dunlin, Calidris alpina arctica, which normally winters in the Old World, as well as a White-rumped Sandpiper x Dunlin hybrid. August 29 brought separate Sabine's Gulls to Plum Island and Provincetown. A Calliope Hummingbird–the fourth record for the state–was at a feeder in Deerfield at the start of August. Windsor hosted a Sedge Wren and a Lincoln's Sparrow on July 4.
Best sighting: an adult male Broad-billed Hummingbird was at a feeder in Dennis on August 23. It disappeared for a few days after being banded but returned and stayed until almost the end of the year (December 13).
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