PI Birders, Many thanks to the birders who sent me reports from over the weekend, especially from yesterday!! The sightings pages are now all up to date. Good...
PI Birders, I've just updated the Plum Island web pages at my site and the Yahoo Plum Island site. Phil Brown had a BARRED OWL in the Pines, the first record...
Wow, what a beautiful day to be out birding! Bill Gette and I led Wednesday Morning Birding out of Joppa Flats Education Center to Salisbury Beach State ...
PI Birders, Quick notes from a birding trip to the refuge this morning. There was a juvenile BAIRD'S SANDPIPER at the North Pool Overlook. It was joined by...
PI Birders, I spent three hours on the refuge this morning, a good deal of the time at lot seven. Highlights at lot seven included... Scoters -- many flocks...
PI Birders, Tim Spahr and I birded the refuge this morning. Always a great time when Tim makes that long trip to get here. Very few warblers and sparrows...
PI Birders, I've just updated the Plum Island birding pages on my website. Here is the list of 78 bird species reported from the island today, October 25th... ...
PI Birders, It's been some time since I sent an update on the October list. Attached are the additions since the last time I posted. Continuing the 2009 trend...
PI Birders, The Plum Island sightings pages on my website are up to date. I was on the island for a few hours this morning, but didn't find anything too ...
Bill Gette and I led 10 intrepid souls out onto Plum Island and Parker River NWR this a.m. for Joppa Flats' Wednesday Morning Birding program. We started out...
PI Birders, My Plum Island pages are up to date to yesterday (use link in signature to get to them). I was on the island for a few hours in the early morning...
PI Birders, On the heels of yesterday's count of 25 Northern Shovelers on Stage Island Pool, this morning's count was 30; many coming in to breeding plumage. ...
PI Birders, I got to the refuge well before dawn this morning and headed more or less directly to Sandy Point. I hoped to get there before the large flocks of...
PI Birders, I've just updated the sightings pages. October ended with three new species today... Cackling Goose Red-necked Grebe Black-headed Gull Lu and I...
PI Birders, The Plum Island sightings pages are up to date with all reports received. I'm hoping for a couple more reports this evening, so there may be an...
PI/MA Birders, Doug Chickering and I independently decided to get to Stage Island Pool early this morning before the Great Goose Ipswich Exodus. We followed...
PI Birders, I've just finished updating the Plum Island bird pages and files. Thought you might be interested in how the November tally has started. It's...
The weather for Wednesday Morning Birding was very acceptable -- high, thin cirrus clouds, temps ranging from mid 40s to 50 F., with winds NW/5-15. Early on,...
PI Birders, The Plum Island bird pages are up to date. Thanks to Dave Weaver and Jim Berry for sending reports for Wednesday. The gate to the refuge was broken...
Tom Wetmore left a message that there were 2 STILT SANDPIPERS (very late) with the dunlin at Bill Forward Pool on Plum Island this morning. The CACKLING GOOSE...
PI Birders, I was on the refuge from 6:00 to 10:00 this morning. The Cackling Goose was reasonably easy to find within the large flock of Canadas at Stage...
Hello, Plum Island Birders! Of course, none of us likes to misidentify any bird species, but that I did yesterday morning during Joppa Flats' Wednesday Morning...
PI/MA Birders, The Cackling Goose was again at Stage Island Pool on Plum Island this morning. It left at its regular departure time of 7:15 for Ipswich. The...
PI Birders, Thanks to Doug Chickering for getting the word out about the SEVEN RICHARDSON'S CACKLING GEESE that were at Stage Island Pool at the south end of...
PI/MA Birders, Here is a link to three of the Cackling Geese photos that Nancy Landry took this morning. http://bartonstreet.com/tom/birds/cackling Good...
PI Birders, I love this picture by Nancy Landry: http://bartonstreet.com/tom/birds/cackling/cackling2.jpg To give you a feeling for the sizes: 1. The bird...
PI Birders, Just keeping you up to date on the November tally ... November 3 (93) 87 Cackling Goose [chickering, wetmore] 88 Red-necked Grebe [chickering] 89...
PI Birders, The web pages are up to date with all sightings recieved. Thanks. No news on the Cackling Geese from the island today. For the second time in a...