PI Birders, I went to the island before sunrise in hopes of catching a great horn owl hooting or an American woodcock I display. Nether bird would oblige me...
SUNDAY, 1 APRIL 2007: PLUM ISLAND (0635-1200, 1300-1730 hrs.) Weather: Mostly clear, WSW 2-5 mph, becoming ESE 8-15 mph in PM, 28-46 F. R.S. Heil & in part...
PI Birders, With Rick's report now integrated the sightings pages are up to date. We started the month with 76 species on the island; see Rick's report for...
Despite it being such a dreary day, the birding actually wasn't that bad. The fields at Scotland Rd. were crawling with birds, with 108 Snipe and 25 Pipits,...
PI Birders, I have the opportunity to leave work early each day this week and planned on birding the island each afternoon despite the weather forecast. In one...
PI Birders, I may have jumped the gun in the id of the eastern kingbird so I am removing them from my list. Tom pointed out to me that the kingbirds don’t...
PI Birders, I had to make a quick trip to New Jersey yesterday and now I'm even further behind on email, etc. However, the sightings pages should be more or...
For a couple of hours this morning, I helped prepare the Joppa Flats banding station for spring operations. There were at least two Purple Finches singing...
PI/MA Birders, Thanks to Phil Brown for the link to the Massachusetts bird arrival date table at: http://www.nebirdsplus.org/BirdsOfMassArrival.htm I have the...
The weather for Wednesday Morning Birding was not fun for an April 4th! I led an intrepid band of seven birders out of Joppa Flats Education Center to see...
When do Seaside Sparrows return to Plum Island? Last year, the first time I stopped to listen for them, during the second week of April, I heard two. They were...
Birders, I was able to bird Plum Island today from 1:30-4:30pm. The highlight today was watching two female harrier's having a little tussle in the air over...
PI Birders, Got to the island this morning, first time since Sunday. Brrrr, cold and very windy. My best bird was a FOX SPARROW at the Hellcat lot. There were...
Despite the temperature and the wind this morning, I worked the AM plover warden shift at the south boundary at PI today. A little after 9:30 AM a flock of 13...
I just looked at my photos of that piping plover flock and saw that two interlopers in the background (which I didn't realize were in the picture when I took...
PI Birders, Although this week’s weather made it a terrible time to do any birding, I did have productive time with adding 4 new birds to my life list for...
PI Birders, Though cold and seemingly quiet, a morning of birding on the island and another hour before dark did manage to turn up a number of nice species. My...
I didn't see anyone else report this today, so I thought I would let folks know there were 11 snow geese on the hill just before the Stage Island Parking Lot....
Andrew Birch
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Apr 9, 2007 12:36 am
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PI Birders, Here are the April tally updates for the "long" weekend. Total now at 92. To put this in perspective, the April tallies ranged from 132 to 147 over...
PI Birders, I got home from work early enough yesterday for Lu and me to take a short trip to the island. We headed down to Cross Farm Hill to see if the 14...
Marshall IIliff, Jeremiah Trimble and I birded the winter-like (NW 10-20 mph, 34-46 F.) NEWBURYPORT-PLUM ISLAND area today (Tues., 10 April 2007) observing the...
Marshall IIliff, Jeremiah Trimble and I birded the winter-like (NW 10-20 mph, 34-46 F.) NEWBURYPORT-PLUM ISLAND area today (Tues., 10 April 2007) observing the...
PI Birders, Thanks to Rick H. the April tally rose by three today, and two of the three species were new to the year. Here's the update. April 10 94 Snowy...
PI Birders, I made a short trip onto the island this morning and spent an enjoyable 15 minutes scanning from the lot seven tower. Though a little chilly the...
Bob Speare and I enjoyed a beautiful morning with a goodly number of Wednesday Morning Birders out of Joppa Flats Education Center. The weather belied that...
Jane Hills and I, after seeing the Reeve in Newburyport just before the Wednesday morning birding group arrived, preceded that group onto the island and saw...
PI Birders, I got a number of reports today, and I just finished getting the web pages up to date. All told there were five new species reported for the April...
PI Birders, Thanks to a report from Steve Grinley, the April tally grew by an additional one yesterday, with Purple Sandpipers on Emerson Rocks. April tally...
PI Birders, This morning there was an adult Black-crowned Night Heron perched up in the the pines tress (flew from one to another) around the Hellcat parking...
After an initial fruitless search of the waterfront in Newburyport and then a trip to Scotland Rd., on the second try at the harbor the Reeve was right along...
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