Trip Report – Cape Ann and Newburyport, MA
1/18/2025
Co-leaders: Fran D’Amico and Wendy Parsons
Attendees: Wendy and Roy Parsons, Fran D’Amico, Will and Gabrielle Bugden, and Annette and Bill Pasek
Stayed at Rockport Inn and Suites in Rockport, MA
Everyone arrived on Friday evening. The group met in the breakfast nook Saturday morning, had breakfast, and got ready to go out birding for the morning. We met outside by 8:30am. We made five stops around Rockport. They included Lanes Cove, Foley Cove, Halibut Point State Park, Cathedral Rocks (behind Emmerson Inn), and the Old Granite Pier. We returned to the hotel for lunch by noon. We left by 12:45 to go to Gloucester. We went to Bass Rocks, Eastern Point Light House, Niles Pond, and Jodrey State Fish Pier. We headed back to the hotel as it started raining at 4pm as promised. We went to Mile Marker One for dinner at 6pm. On Sunday, we headed for Newburyport, MA by 8:30am. We stopped at Mass Audubon Joppa Flats Visitors Center. We saw some American Wigeons and Eurasian Wigeons. We spent a small amount of time on Plum Island. We saw 53 different species over the weekend. We left Newburyport around noon due in impending snow storm.
