Time: 7:45 am to 1:00 pm. Only 45 species--a lackluster day. Did not check ocean or walk Dunes Loop. Sandy Point was full early, so did not go there. Canada...
We ended our vacation today by doing one more tour of the refuge before getting on the road to Vermont. Though it looks like there were some amazing sightings...
PI/MA Birders, The first day of the Labor Day weekend brought MANY birders to Plum Island. I have collated the records posted so far, with the list that Tim...
PI/MA Birders, After two more reports, the number of bird species sighted on Plum Island yesterday has grown from 106 to 117. Instead of dumping the list on...
PI Birders, Another beautiful day on the island with many birders spread far and wide. Another report from Mark Lynch & Sheila Carroll upped the September 1st...
I was out on the island for a short while this afternoon leading Joppa Flats' program "What's That Bird?" -- a program for neophyte birders. While on the...
PI/MA Birders, Plum Island was inundated with birders and others over the long weekend. Beautiful weather and fabulous birds. The four specialty Plum Island...
PI Birders, I spent a little over two hours on the refuge this morning, almost all of it along the road from the Hellcat lot north to the southern edge of...
PI Birders, A couple days ago a birder asked me whether Hellcat had been invaded by "fowl." He had heard fowl-like noises coming from the marsh trail. What he...
PI Birders, Some boring statistics in this post. First a tally update. Today I learned that Linda Ferraresso beat me to the Ovenbird yesterday, so I added two...
What a FUN, beautiful day!! A large Wednesday Morning Birding group under Bill Gette's, Lynette Leka's, and my lead had a terrific morning birding mostly on...
PI Birders, Based on latest reports the September tally is up again, now at 152 species. My software updates the list every day (often more than once), and it...
Don Logan of Watertown reported a Say's Phoebe flying around the south dike behind Hellcat on Plum Island this morning at about 10am. The bird was seen from...
As of 2:30pm the Say's phoebe is still being seen on the south dike behind Hellcat. Brian Tucker stopped in and reported that he just left the bird and Bob...
MA/PI Birders, The SAY'S PHOEBE continued being seen at least through to 5:30 pm when I left. The bird roamed fairly widely, from the middle of the Forward...
Margo and I went hunting - for Philadelphia vireo at Goodno woods and we were finally successful. Just as we had given up and started to head back toward the...
Birders, I made two trips to the island today. One at sunrise the other from 5- 7pm. Both trips were worthwhile, with the first a life bird, a Baird's...
PI Birders, A short report. I was on the island from 6:10 to about 10:30 this morning. My highlights included an AMERICAN BITTERN at the North Pool Overlook,...
PI/Mass birders, Here is a list of birds seen on Plum Island today, 9-9-07. Least sandpiper, pans Semipalmated sandpiper, pans Semipalmated plover, pans ...
PI Birders, Though rainy at times, today still brought seven new species to the September list. Note two scary ones, the WHITE-THROATED SPARROW and DARK-EYED...
Margo Goetschkes and I had a nice selection of passerines today. Highlights: Across from Salt Pannes: 1 black & white warbler (Margo) No Say’s phoebe as...
PI Birders, After seeing reports from Doug Chickering and Steve Grinley, the September count for today is up two more species, HUDSONIAN GODWIT and LARK...
PI, MA Birders, This morning I found a CONNECTICUT WARBLER at the beginning of "the swale" along the Dune Trail at Hellcat on Plum Island. This is the low wet...
Ida Giriunas, Mollie Taylor, and I birded Plum today between ~0915-1530. Despite it being a fairly miserable day all around the birds were wonderful. ...
Ian, Nice day list, indeed. The only thing I can add is a pair of Black-throated Blue warblers. For the record, no one I spoke with nor I had any luck...
PI Birders, Lu and I are leaving for three days in Maine early tomorrow morning. We are not taking a laptop nor other modern appliance. Once the shakes wear...
TUESDAY, 11 SEPTEMBER 2007: PARKER RIVER N.W.R., PLUM ISLAND, MA (0700-1415 hrs.) Weather: Overcast, NE winds 8-15 mph, 60 F; rain after 1300, heavy after 1330...
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