When submitting eBird observations at Great Neck, it is most helpful to start a new checklist for each hotspot in the area. Use the general hotspot when you have a checklist that includes multiple locations or if no other hotspot or personal location is appropriate for your sightings.

Great Neck is a tract of three hundred and fifty acres of bluff, hill, upland, and beach with presently more than four hundred and forty homes, located three miles from the center of Ipswich and thirty miles from Boston. It is skirted on three sides by water: Plum Island Sound, Ipswich River, and Eagle Hill River. Its hills command a view of the Atlantic Ocean from Cape Ann to Mount Agamenticus in Maine. From the very beginning of the Town’s history, this great, isolated tract has been the most noteworthy portion of the old common lands. Its forests were an important asset, its value as a safe and extensive pasture was very great, and the fishing station on its beach and hillside was a large factor in the industrial development of the Town. After the first decade of the eighteenth century, it held a unique position as the only valuable portion of the old common lands which was retained by all the Commoners in a body.