This is the first post to the Plum Island Birds group. The purpose of the group is to share information about the birds of and birding on Plum Island, Essex...
Here is the link to the Plum Island bird sightings web page: http://bartonstreet.com/tom/birds/pisightings.html Unless I am on a trip I update this list on a...
Hi Birders, This will be a fun e-group to be a part of! Through mid-October I'll be doing a weekly shorebird census of Bill Forward and Stage Island Pools....
Timothy Spahr
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Aug 4, 2005 11:40 pm
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Here are my Plum Island sightings from this morning before heading off to work. Highpoints were the 4 Little Gulls at Forward Pool, the 3 rails species heard...
Thanks, Tom, for setting this site up. I look forward to informative posts about one of my favorite birding areas. I only wish I lived closer. Richard New...
Here are my sightings from this morning, August 5, 2005. I got as far as Stage Island Pool before turning back. The tide was low so shorebird numbers...
Greetings Plum Island Birders, Here is a complete listing of my Plum island birds from last evening. Forgive my lack of #s for most species - I'm not much of a...
I just wanted to add a couple of birds that hadn't yet been reported today. I birded with Sue McGrath and Sue Sellers tonight and saw: Hudsonian Godwit, 3,...
Any place to find out when it is going to be high tide. We don't live that close, so would like to know to plan our trips to plum island. thanks Joan...
Joan, Good question. Here is a link for August tides in Newburyport harbor: http://bartonstreet.com/nbptbrds/tides/aug2005.html (I will also put a link to this...
PI Birders, I was able to get to Plum Island twice today, early in the morning, and in the late afternoon with Lu. My best bird of the day was an ALDER...
PI Birders, I got down to Sandy Point and back from 6:00 to 8:45 this morning. Best bird was an adult male LEAST BITTERN feeding at the edge of the reeds in...
PI Birders, With Doug Chickering's permission here is the note he sent me on August 6th when he described the Greater Scaup. On Aug 6, 2005, at 5:12 PM,...
Hi Plum Island Birders, Brian Harris and I met Tom Wetmore for a quick 1/2 hour of morning birding in search of passerines in the Hellcat area. Then Brian and...
Timothy Spahr
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Aug 8, 2005 9:44 pm
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PI Birders, On Monday the 9th I birded on the island from just before 6:00 am to about 8:15 am, never further south than Hellcat. From 7:00 to 8:00 I joined up...
PI Birders, For curiosity sake I combined the Plum Island lists from Mark & Sheila, Tim & Brian, and myself, from August 8, and was pleased to find a combined...
I have a few photos of the scaup at the salt pannes with its head tucked. Since I do not have a digiscope and the scaup was at a pretty good distance from me,...
Ann, Those pictures support the Greater over Lesser argument considerably. Glad you were there with camera in hand. I don't think the case is definitive, but I...
PI Birders, Here is a copy of Rick Heil's report to Massbird from his trip to Plum Island from yesterday, August 9, 2005. Note that he reports a male Greater...
PI Birders, Motivated by the recent post about bird abbreviations, I made a table showing the abbreviations for current Massachusetts birds. It includes my...
PI Birders, I birded from 5:55 am to 7:50 am this morning on the refuge, with most of the time spent walking the marsh loop trail at Hellcat. I did manage...
PI Birders, Here is Dave Weaver's report from the Joppa Flat's Wednesday Morning Birding trip that spent much of its time on the refuge. This report is for...
PI Birders, Here is a post forwarded from Massbird, this one from Nancy Soulette describing a Buff-breasted Sandpiper from Bill Forward Pool yesterday evening,...
PI Birders, I made a short run to Plum Island this morning, primarily to see if the Buff-breasted Sandpiper discovered by Sue Ross yesterday was still there....
PI Birders, I've been poking around with some of the features that Yahoo provides for this group. If you look at the sidebar over to your left (go ahead and...
Jock Purcell and I as Joppa Flats volunteers hosted a group of volunteers from New Hampshire's Sandy Point Discovery Center. These folks do Osprey survey...
As a PS to my earlier post, neglected to note that at Bill Forward Pool, we saw a River Otter out in the middle of the pool twisting and turning, no doubt...
PIBirders, Another short trip to the island this morning, no further south than Hellcat. I was after the Buff-breasted Sandpiper again, but failed. Highlights...
PI Birders, Here is Paula's report from the morning of August 12. Note the Ruby- throated Hummingbird she saw between lots one and two! -- Tom Wetmore,...
Birders, I birded Bill Forward Pool early this morning, before 6:00 to about 7:00. For the second day I was not able to find the Buff-breasted Sandpiper....
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