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Today the Back Bay Birding Club took a tram ride through Back Bay down to 
False Cape and back. I was surprised at the amounts of waterfowl we saw 
today. Present were: Mallard, Black Duck, Pintail, Ring Necked Duck, Blue 
Winged Teal, Northern Shoveler, Pie Billed Grebe and Green Winged Teal . A 
Mute Swan really put on a show for us running on the water with wings spread 
to chase away the Canada Geese that got too close.
Shorebirds that were present were: Greater Yellowlegs, Golden Plover, 
Dowitcher and Killdeer. Other birds that hung around the water were: Double 
Crested Cormorants, Ring Billed Gulls, Great Blue Herons, Great Egrets, Tree 
Swallows and Belted Kingfisher. Brown Pelicans could be seen over the ocean 
and Ospreys were spotted in several places nesting and hovering over the 
water waiting for just the right fish to appear. Leaving the impoundments a 
couple a rails could be heard over the sound of the tram. They sounded like 
they were having a loud argument!
Other birds seen were: Cardinal, House Finch, Robin, Brown Thrasher, Common 
and Boat Tailed Grackles, American and Fish Crows, Bobwhite, Turkey Vulture, 
Gray Catbird, Carolina Chickadee, Yellow Rumped Warblers, Sedge Wren and a 
Thrush whose species could not be determined. Birds we heard but didn't see 
were: White Throated Sparrow, Common Yellowthroat,Pine Warbler, Eastern 
Towhee, Downy Woodpecker, Carolina Wren and the rails mentioned earlier that 
we think may have been King Rails. 
Animals seen - horses, turtles and a feral pig


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