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| Bonaparte's Gull, Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, MA, Oct 17, 2019 |
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| Bonaparte's Gull, Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, MA, Oct 17, 2019 |
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| Bonaparte's Gulls, Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, MA, Oct 17, 2019 |
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| Bonaparte's Gulls, Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, MA, Oct 17, 2019 |
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| Bonaparte's Gulls and Ring billed Gulls, Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, MA, Oct 17, 2019 |
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| Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, MA, Oct 17, 2019 |
A powerful nor'easter hit the area starting on Wednesday and continuing overnight into Thursday. The storm tracked up over New England passing just east of the valley and bringing strong east to northeast winds from Wednesday day into the overnight before the winds shifted to the southwest, then west and eventually to the northwest from Thursday into Friday. The storm was very strong with a fairly low pressure for a storm around here with a pressure in the low 970's mb. I headed over Winsor Dam at dawn where it was still raining and very windy with the wind out of the southwest and my initial stop didn't turn up much. I made a few more stops at the dam over the course of the morning with the best sighting being four Bonaparte's Gulls that flew in and fed over the water and briefly landed among some Ring billed Gulls. The heavy rain shield continued just off to the west through most of the day which probably kept birds that would have used the winds to migrate past grounded or on the other side of the heavy rain. I can bet tomorrow will be a good day for waterfowl moving on the continued strong northwest winds. The only unusual report from inland Massachusetts I have seen so far was a Laughing Gull in Westborough (just a bit east of Worcester).
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