Bird Sightings on Martha's Vineyard: November 2022
Greater scaup.
Yellow-throated warbler.
Common goldeneyes.
Long-tailed ducks.
Pine siskin.
Snow geese.
European starlings.
Snow buntings.
Black-legged kittiwake.
Cooper's hawk.
Fish crows.
Red-throated loon.
Baltimore oriole.
Dark-eyed junco.
Marsh wren.
Red-breasted merganser drake.
Gray kingbird.
Eurasian widgeon.
Double-crested cormorants occupy Sarson's Island.
Immature Bonaparte's gull.
Bonaparte's gull.
Semi-palmated plover.
Red-tailed hawk.
Ipswich sparrow.
Osprey.
November brings cooler weather and the arrival of winter residents, especially waterfowl. Transient migrants continue to be found, including some summer resident species, though they appear in newer numbers.
From the season's first brant to fish crows, keep up with the latest Bird News, and send your sightings to [email protected].
Bird Sightings on Martha’s Vineyard: May 2024
Blackpoll warbler.
Yellow-billed cuckoo.
Horned lark.
Black tern.
Willow flycatcher.
Chestnut-sided warbler.
Orchard oriole.
Worm-eating warbler.
Wilson's warbler.
Purple sandpiper.
Rose-breasted grosbeak.
Purple martins.
Blue-gray gnatcatcher.
Northern rough-winged swallow.
American redstart.
Yellow-rumped warbler.
Palm warbler.
Brown thrasher.
Laughing gull.
Ovenbird.
Blue-winged warbler.
Swamp sparrow.
Blue-headed vireo.
Eastern towhee.
Great crested flycatcher.
Northern parula warbler.
Roseate terns.
Townsend's warbler.
Yellow warbler.
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Bird Sightings on Martha’s Vineyard: June 2024
Wilson's storm petrel.
Fork-tailed flycatcher.
Eastern kingbird.
Spotted sandpiper.
Grasshopper sparrow.
Bald eagle.
American avocet.
Red-tailed hawk.
European starling.
Greater yellowlegs.
Great-crested flycatcher.
Great shearwater.
Black-bellied plover.
Common grackles at South Beach.
White-eyed vireo.
Fin whale spotted by MV Birding Club.
Humpback whale fluke.
Eastern screech owl (juvenile).
Great blue heron.
Least sandpiper.
Red-breasted nuthatch.
Wilson’s phalarope.
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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Bird Sightings on Martha’s Vineyard: May 2025
Piping plovers.
Red-eyed vireo.
Least terns.
Least terns.
Canada geese.
Eastern towhee.
Eastern towhee.
Grey catbird.
White-eyed vireo.
Willet.
Yellow warbler.
Blue-gray gnatcatcher.
Common yellowthroat.
Eastern kingbird.
Marsh wren.
Northern rough-winged swallow.
Prothonotary warbler.
Yellow-throated warbler.
Bald eagle.
Bufflehead.
Dunlin.
Dunlin.
Red-eyed vireo.
Worm-eating warbler.
Worm-eating warbler.
Yellow-throated warbler.
Black-throated green warbler.
Black-throated green warbler.
Blackpoll warbler.
Hair woodpecker.
Mallards.
Mallards.
Ruby-crowned kinglet.
Veery.
Veery.
Blackburnian warbler.
Blackburnian warbler.
Parasitic jaeger.
Parasitic jaeger.
Piping plovers.
Piping plovers.
Red knot.
Red knot.
Ruby-throated hummingbird.
Wood thrush.
Morning bird song is at full tilt and many seasonal avian visitors continue to arrive. Annual standbys such as Towhees, Catbirds, and wrablers are being seen by Island birders.
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Bird Sightings on Martha’s Vineyard: June 2025
Black and white warbler.
Merlin.
Chestnut-sided warbler.
Chestnut-sided warbler.
Greater shearwater.
Greater shearwater.
Purple martin.
Saltmarsh sparrow.
Saltmarsh sparrow.
Swainson's thrush.
Whimbrel.
Whimbrel.
Bank swallow.
Black tern.
Black tern.
Northern mockingbird.
Laughing gull.
Wild turkeys.
Wild turkeys.
Yellow-billed cuckoo.
Black and white warbler.
Black-necked stilt.
Bobolink.
Eastern meadowlark.
Gadwall.
Gadwalls.
Merlin.
White-eyed vireo.
Black skimmer.
Black skimmer.
Cedar waxwing.
Cedar waxwing.
Common eider.
Common eider.
Common loon.
Common loon.
Spotted sandpiper.
Stilt sandpiper.
Tree swallow.
Bird Sightings on Martha’s Vineyard: July 2025
Ruddy turnstones with a dunlin.
Northern harrier.
Belted kingfisher.
Black guillemot.
Black guillemot.
Peregrine falcon.
Peregrine falcon.
Purple gallinule.
Purple gallinule.
Red-eyed vireo.
Short-billed dowitcher.
Short-billed dowitcher with ruddy turnstone.
Fledgling common tern.
[l-r] Fledgling roseate tern, common tern.
Fledgling roseate tern.
Parasitic jaegers chasing terns.
Parasitic jaeger.
Northern harrier.
Turkey vulture.
Turkey vulture.
Eastern towhee.
Scarlet tanager.
American goldfinch.
American goldfinch.
Eastern bluebird.
Eastern bluebird.
Least sandpiper.
Least sandpiper.
Northern flicker.
Northern flicker.
Wood thrush.
Chipping sparrow.
Eastern wood peewee.
Eastern wood peewee.
Laughing gull.
Laughing gull.
Red knot.
Red knots.
Ruddy turnstones.
Wood ducks.
Black-crowned night heron.
Brown-headed cowbird.
Brown-headed cowbird.
Cedar waxwing.
Downy woodpecker juvenile.
Solitary sandpiper.
Solitary sandpiper.
Solitary sandpiper.
Wilson's storm petrel.
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