Birders, PI Birders, Jim Hully and I birded Plum Island for a couple hours this morning. I was able to find Jim a Plum Island life bird, DICKCISSEL, and Jim...
PI Birders, October is off to a good start. If you check the Plum Island Birds web site you'll see that I've created a new file for the October tally. There...
Hello, Lucky enough to see the least bittern today through Tom's scope. Thanks! The only addition I can make to your list for today is a common yellowthroat at...
PI Birders, The October count for the 1st moved from 82 to 83 after Doug Chickering reported a White-crowned Sparrow from the s-curves yesterday. Based on my...
PI Birders, Thanks to reports from Linda Ferrarreso and Brian Harris, the October species count for October 2nd grew and now stands at an even 100. The four...
PI Birders, I didn't get out on the island today, but did get a report of a Yellow-billed Cuckoo on the island. I'll give credit when I learn who the observer...
PI Birders, On my trip to the island this morning I found three species to add to the October count -- Sharp-shinned Hawk, Field Sparrow, and Rusty Blackbird...
PI Birders, Got home early enough this afternoon that Lu and I could get to the island. We stopped briefly at the lot one overlook, and then spent the rest of...
PI Birders, Just got a report from Dave Adrien with three more birds for the 4th (Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Black-throated Green Warbler, and Blackpoll Warbler),...
PI Birders, The October species count for Plum Island has reached 118. More birds were added for yesterday based on Bruce deGraaf's report to Massbird. And...
I celebrated my birthday by birding on the refuge all day - I was hoping to add to the October species list and came up with the following (which appear to be...
PI Birders, Thanks to a report from John Nelson, we added Brown Creeper to the list for yesterday, and thanks to Ann and Gary Gurka spending Ann's birthday...
I was at Plum Island this morning around 6:45. Nothing too exciting, though I did run into Tom W, which is always nice! Here are the birds I saw: Cormorant,...
PI Birders, Thanks primarily to the report from the Joppa Flats birding banding station, the October species count for Plum Island soared up to 129 today....
PI Birders, I was scheduled to lead birdwalks for the refuge on Plum Island both days this weekend, 7:30 to 9:30, but surprise, surprise, nobody showed up!...
Birders, Here is a great link for weather information. Move you mouse around the panel on the left and many different maps show up. You can click the arrows at...
PI Birders, I have added a new link to the Plum Island Birds web site. It is the first one in the list, entitled 2005 Plum Island Sightings Database The link...
Apologies for the late post. I had a small group of first-time birders out on Plum Island this morning. From the new blind overlooking Bill Forward Pool, we...
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I was at PI from approx 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. yesterday. Here's what I saw: Cormorants, approx 400, flying south over lot 1 Savanah Sparrows, 3+, boat ramp Tree...
PI Birders, I got out to the island both this morning and afternoon. I spent most of the time both trips at the lot one overlook. Not that many birds, but...
Birders, PI Birders, This morning I tried to conduct a sea watch from the lot one overlook at Plum Island. I and my optics were quickly sand-blasted and...
Also posted on Massbird: A small intrepid band of Wednesday Morning Birders struck out from Joppa Flats Education Center at 0930 with Bill Gette in the lead...
PI Birders, A great day at Plum Island! I hope you all got to read David Weaver's report from the Joppa Flats field trip to the island this morning. Two...
Birders, PI Birders, Just back from a morning on Plum Island ... highlights below ... for those of you on the PI Bird list keeping track of the October tally, ...
PI Birders, I got a note from Dave Larson today, and he reported a late sighting of an American Kestrel on Plum Island from October 1st. So, add that to the...
Birders, PI Birders, Picking up the thread started by Jim Berry yesterday about what Peregrine Falcons do at sea. This morning I did another hour of sea- ...
This also posted on Massbird: Jock Purcell and I led a small group out of Joppa Flats Education Center onto Plum Island this morning around 1000. The radar...
PI Birders, Just back from New London, CT, and my Dad's 80th birthday. On a shameful personal note, all of my parents' 5 children, 13 grand- children, 4...