July–August 1981
The high count for Red Knots this year was 2,800 in Scituate on August 3. An adult Gull-billed Tern was seen at Plum Island on July 14, and an adult Sabine’s Gull was reported from Stellwagen Bank on August 30. A singing male Northern Cardinal on July 6 was Jim Berry’s first record for Crane’s Beach.
Best sighting: a Spotted Redshank was photographed at the salt pans on Plum Island on July 28. It was found by two birders from New Jersey and seen by no one else. It was the first record for Massachusetts. Since then, there has only been one other record: South Wellfleet, July 31–August 19, 1990.
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