PI Birders, A great start to the year, with a few good hours of birding before the rain and snow started. My list for the day is at the end. I've been working...
PI Birders, Quick morning post before work. First, the web pages are now ALL up to date, though I haven't started the tally pages on the Plum Island Birds...
A few snow showers, temps in the low 30s, and a wind out of the west building to ~ 15 mph by morning's end marked the weather for our Wednesday Morning Birding...
PI Birders, I'm almost back in control of all data files, web pages, and so forth; there is always some extra work involved at the start of a new year. All the...
PI Birders, First a tally update. Based on records received so far, the January tally is now at 66 species ... January 3 62 Black-bellied Plover [mcgrath] 63...
PI Birders, I abandoned Plum Island for the early morning, joining friends at the Gloucester fish pier at 6:50 am. I couldn't stay away, however, and was on...
PI Birders, After two more reports the tally has jumped six species today, thanks to Paula McFarland and Mark Daley. Note the BLACK GUILLEMOT reported by Mark....
PI Birders, Today while birding on the island I came across six rough-legged hawks, 4 within almost sight of each other, three of which were dark morph. The...
SUNDAY, 6 JANUARY 2008: PLUM ISLAND (0850-1600 hrs.) Weather: Mostly cloudy, SW winds 5-10 mph, 36-42 F. I systematically surveyed most accessible areas of the...
PI Birders, It was a wonderful day for birding on the island. In the early morning there were multiple feeding frenzies offshore from lot one involving ...
PI Birders, I didn't make it to the island today, and I got no specific report from the island either (well, yesterday, now). However I did have Chris...
PI/MA Birders, The RAZORBILL show continued off lot one of Plum Island today. I was on the platform at dawn. There were many small and medium sized flocks of...
TUESDAY, 8 JANUARY 2008: PLUM ISLAND (1030-1600 hrs.) Weather: Partly cloudy, SW 8-12 mph, 57-62 F. Richard S. Heil Only two quick looks off shore in rather...
David Larson, Hilda Dorgan, and I led a large group of Wednesday Morning Birders out of Joppa Flats Education Center onto Plum Island this morning. Our list...
PI Birders, The web pages are up to date. The January tally is up to 83 species. Last year's January tally was 96, and that was the best for the years I've...
PI/Mass Birders, I went to the island today with the hopes of catching the Northern Goshawk as I seemed to just miss it the past week or so. I finally spotted...
Dear Birders, It appears that I was wrong in the id of the northern goshawk on Plum Island today. More experience birders have contacted me to tell me that...
PI Birders, After missing two days on the refuge, I got to the island early this morning, and made a second visit in the afternoon with Lu for the owls. My...
PI Birders, Another nice weather day on the refuge. My sightings are below. Highlights included at least eight adult male SURF SCOTERS among many hundreds of...
PI Birders, This morning I got to the island for the first time since Sunday. The road is clear to Hellcat but closed south. Mid 20's, stiff wind from the...
Wednesday Morning Birding out of Joppa Flats was led by Bill Gette and me. Cool, crisp morning with lots of sunshine, temps in upper 20s to 32, and winds NW...
Tom or anyone, I have been thinking about this for a little while and wanted to ask your opinion on this. With continuing sightings of a hairy woodpecker on...
PI Birders, I got to the island for two short visits today, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. There was a SHORT-EARED OWL between lots one and two...
PI Birders, After a few more reports I've updated the web pages a second time today. There were two new species added to the January and 2008 tallies: January...
Nahant, 1/19 close but brief look at a probable dark-morph Gyrfalcon in flight. It was flying along the cliff face of Little Nahant toward Short Beach in late...
PI Birders, Thanks to a few noisy nuthatches, Nancy Landry and I were able to locate an extremely well-hidden Northern Saw-whet Owl this morning around 9:00....
Birders, As Tom said in the previous post, he found the saw-whet owl well hidden behind a pine cone. The bird was almost in possible to get a good photo of and...
PI Birders, I did not get to the island Monday, but had reports from four dedicated birders who braved brutal weather conditions to make it to the refuge. The...
Dear PI Birders - Yesterday (MLK day) around 4 PM, my wife and I saw what looked like a barred owl -- at least that's what we thought it was after checking ...
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