Bird Sightings on Martha’s Vineyard: June 2024
Wilson's storm petrel.
Wilson's storm petrel.
Fork-tailed flycatcher.
Fork-tailed flycatcher.
Eastern kingbird.
Eastern kingbird.
Spotted sandpiper.
Spotted sandpiper.
Grasshopper sparrow.
Grasshopper sparrow.
Bald eagle.
Bald eagle.
American avocet.
American avocet.
Red-tailed hawk.
Red-tailed hawk.
European starling.
European starling.
Greater yellowlegs.
Greater yellowlegs.
Great-crested flycatcher.
Great-crested flycatcher.
Great shearwater.
Great shearwater.
Black-bellied plover.
Black-bellied plover.
Common grackles at South Beach.
Common grackles at South Beach.
White-eyed vireo.
White-eyed vireo.
Fin whale spotted by MV Birding Club.
Fin whale spotted by MV Birding Club.
Humpback whale fluke.
Humpback whale fluke.
Eastern screech owl (juvenile).
Eastern screech owl (juvenile).
Great blue heron.
Great blue heron.
Least sandpiper.
Least sandpiper.
Red-breasted nuthatch.
Red-breasted nuthatch.
Wilson’s phalarope.
Wilson’s phalarope.
Wood thrush.
Wood thrush.
Now migrating shorebirds return as the calendar turns its page to June. Birders have crowded Island ponds and beaches as ruddy turnstones, short-billed dowitchers, red knots, sandpipers, and dunlin return to their summer homes.
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