Between 0900 and 1030 today, I observed a minimum of five Least Bitterns along the cattail edge of the North Pool. Two minimum, including one adult male and...
After a month's hiatus, Joppa Flats' Wednesday Morning Birding was back in action. Bill Gette and I led the WMBers on a beautiful morning first to the ...
PI Birders, I was able to get to the island for the first time since last Sunday this morning. The insects were very manageable. As many of you know, I try to...
PI Birders, Just to get the July tally summarized, and to start off the August tally, here are a couple lists. First we did manage to break the previous record...
PI Birders, Made it to the island two week day mornings in a row! I added six species to the August tally: 69 Black-crowned Night-Heron [wetmore] 70 Solitary...
PI Birders, Based on an update from Sue McGrath from yesterday, and reports from today, it looks like the August tally has now hit 82 species for the 4th. Here...
Hi PI Birders, I took some pictures of Saltmarsh ST sparrows late yesterday afternoon at the boat ramp. If you're interested in viewing them, they can be seen...
PIMA Birders, Rick Heil should be back on line later this week so he still needs help getting his Heilights posted. He birded on Plum Island today, August 7,...
PI Birders, I've been slow keeping you posted on the August tally changes. Here are the adds from the last three days. With Rick's trip today we broke over 100...
Wednesday Morning Birding was lightly attended this morning. I imagine that the fair-weather-birder factor kicked in. Too bad, because we had an excellent...
PI Birders, A little late for this report. Yesterday was a beautiful day on the refuge. Due to a strange schedule I was able to get out onto the island three...
PIMA Birders, Rick is still off net, so I'm posting the Heil-lights from his Plum Island visit on Friday. Note his numbers of egrets and ibises coming to...
I spent a good 7 hours on the island today. Good day all around. I started with a fairly cooperative Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow at the boat ramp, then...
PIMA Birders, Brian Harris, Tim Spahr, and I spent some time at Hellcat this morning looking for early migrant warblers. We found the usual three, Yellow,...
Besides the usual suspects of herring, ringbilled, and great black back gulls during my 8-12 shift at Lot 1 beach yesterday I had uncountable numbers of common...
PI Birders, First an update to the August tally. We're now at 119, with plenty of time to go. Here are the recent additions: August 9 107 Hooded Merganser...
PI Birders, The Plum Island Birds group passed its second birthday on August 4th. The group currently has 131 members. A total of 1,433 messages have been...
PI Birders, I made a short trip to the island yesterday morning. Here are my highlights... Black-crowned Night-Heron -- 1 seen and a number heard at a noisy ...
David Larson and I led today's merry band of Wednesday Morning Birders out of Joppa Flats Education Center for a look at Newburyport Harbor and then on to Plum...
Be sure to end your day at the Salisbury roost. Tonight I arrived around 6ish when there were around 30 egrets and I left about 7:15, only because my batteries...
The roost is on Rt. 1 in Salisbury, Massachusetts, about 1/4 mile south of Salisbury square near the big "Flip Flop 2 a New Bank" sign. Park in the dirt lot...
PI Birders, I got to the island twice yesterday, Aug 17, for an hour and a half in the morning and another hour and a half in the afternoon, basically at lot...
Hello! I'm suppose to go birding in Plum Island on the next weekend and I would like to know where is the best place to go for watching shorebirds, gulls and...
PI Birders, Plenty of nice birds on the island today. My final tally was 75 species. Highlights: White-winged Scoter -- 4 ocean at lot seven. Black Scoter -- 1...
Bill Gette and I again focused on shorebirds on Plum Island with the Wednesday Morning Birding folks out of Joppa Flats Education Center. After the fog burned...
PI Birders, Here is Rick Heil's Report from yesterday on the island. ONE HUNDRED species. Tom W. ... TUESDAY, 21 AUGUST 2007: PLUM ISLAND (0600-1915 hrs.) ...
We made a quick visit to the refuge on our way to the Salisbury egret roost late Wednesday afternoon. Highlights were an adult and an immature Little Blue...
PI Birders, I made a short trip to the island yesterday and have little to report. I do keep having close encounters with young COOPER'S HAWKS; I'm convinced...
I spent the day, 8:15 am to 2:30 pm, on Plum Island at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge. The stiff breeze made it quite tolerable despite 85-degree...
PI Birders, Great news. Two JUVENILE BLUE-WINGED TEAL at North Pool this afternoon. Both with most of their body feathers grown in, but both with much down...
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