Susan Henry who summers on Gurnet Point (southmost part of Duxbury Beach - actually in Plymouth MA), sent me these photos taken on August 31, 2019. She came out onto her deck and the bird was "just there". It stayed all day in the hot sun and moved very little sparking concerns about its well-being including lack of water. Late afternoon her husband Ray said that he looked at it while on the deck, looked away, and when he looked back it was gone.

Though not uncommon in the state as a whole, according to Birds of Massachusetts (Veit & Peterson 1993) it was rare on Cape Cod and the islands at that time. EBird indicates that while individuals are occasionally seen in Eastern Mass., none has previously been reported for Duxbury Beach.

Two days earlier a mixed flock of gulls (easily 100, possibly twice that) filled the sky over our yard (within 0.1 mile of the water) swarming nearly silently(!) for 5-10 minutes presumably feeding on newly hatched flying ants (similar to report on MassBird from Linda Privak of Nahant). Most were Laughing Gulls with other species represented (in total maybe 20-30%) As I saw them I reminisced about the flocks of Nighthawks I saw feeding on insects over White River Junction, Vt. when I was in college. Oddly the next day I received Susan's photos; maybe our unusual visitor was somehow drawn to whatever the gulls were "hawking"(flying ants?)!