Part IV - Massachusetts and Home Again

We had quite an adventure in Boston.  Our hotel was beautiful inside (and expensive) but was in an awful neighborhood and we had to park our car in a parking lot next to the hotel.  Our second night, we found a space right next to the hotel which was difficult to get into but...  Anyway, at one in the morning, the phone rings and then someone comes knocking on our door.  Seems in this awful neighborhood, I managed to have left both front windows open!!  Luckily, all was okay!  We never left anything of real value in the car anyway.  We spent our full day in Boston taking an all day tour of the area by bus, stopping along the way at various sights.  This was one of the beautiful trees around the Commons in Lexington where the Revolutionary War started!  We had a FANTASTIC lunch at Faneuil Hall . We then headed to the USS Constitution.  I had toured that many years ago so passed on that.  

We were supposed to do a whale watch on Cape Cod but it was cancelled because the weather was too windy to take the ship out which was disappointing but we did spend the day driving all the way out to Provincetown and then back to New Bedford where we spent the night before heading back to Rochester.

We stopped by a lovely beach near P-town where there were quite a number of Greater Yellowlegs -- don't think I have ever seen this many in one place before!

They were quite a ways off and it was very bright and sunny so not the best pics.

This is a Semi-palmated Plover.  There were also some Herring Gulls and Sanderlings on the beach.