PI Birders, I've been remiss in failing to prepare you to welcome the next member of the Plum Island 1000 Club. Yesterday's sighting of a Greater Yellowlegs...
I spent a few hours on the island today with the following results: 7 common loon 4 red-necked grebe 1 great cormorant 1 great blue heron, BFP 2 great egrets,...
PI Birders, When a new month starts the bookkeeping takes a few extra minutes to straighten out the files and pages. But all my web pages are now up to date...
Ida Giriunas and I went up to New Hampshire this morning to try for the previously reported Ross's Goose up there, but in the almost hour we were there it was...
Alex Ratelle and I led Wednesday Morning Birding out of Joppa Flats Education Center today. The surf was up as the weather gods once again dealt Wednesday...
PI Birders, Today's report for the island. First an update to the April 1st tally info. Two owls were added due to later reports, so April 1st ended with 67...
PI Birders, Quick note for you contest players. This morning there were two FOX SPARROWS singing at the spot in the S-curves I mentioned yesterday. Good...
PI Birders, Based on reports received so far the April tally climbed 8 species today to 84... April 3 77 Greater Scaup [wetmore] 78 Sharp-shinned Hawk...
PI Birders, Here's a quick update to yesterday's tally. Steve Grinley added ICELAND GULL: April 3 77 Greater Scaup [grinley, wetmore] 78 Sharp-shinned Hawk...
PI Birders, Not a particularly pleasant time on the refuge this morning, but hey, is there anything better to do early on a rainy morning? Paula McFarland and...
PI Birders, It turned out to be a rather marvelous day on Plum Island even though while I was birding this morning it was raining the entire time. Thanks to a...
Gary & I spent the morning on the refuge. Our highlights were a Lesser Black-backed Gull in the wet field south of the Pines and an Iceland Gull in the field...
PI Birders, The Plum Island web pages are now up to date with today's records from Nancy Landry, Paula McFarland and myself. To see the new sightings check the...
David Larson and I had the pleasure of leading Wednesday Morning Birds today. We started off in a bit of fog, which later cleared leaving a high, thin...
PI Birders, There were plenty of birds and birders on Plum Island today, and a generous number of the birders sent me their lists. The web pages are now up to...
Massbirders/PI Birders: I'm reminded by Rick's Thursday PI/Nbpt post that I neglected to include in my earlier post a light morph Rough-legged Hawk seen by our...
Some highlights from a few hours on the Island today: 1 pine warbler-n of Lot 2 1 ruby-cr kinglet -Hellcat 1 brown thrasher-Pines 40+ golden-cr kinglets, 2o...
PI Birders, The weather might not have been as nice as yesterday, but this time of year there is so much "avian pressure" pushing northwards, that there has to...
Margo Goetschkes and I birded Newburyport and Plum Island today. Noteworthy was a lone, male COMMON REDPOLL on the Marsh Trail at Hellcat just beyond the ...
It was a fabulous migration day for kestrels and great blue herons. From the North End of PI, we even watched a great blue heron fly in off the ocean and land...
PI Birders, The big bird story from the island today was the migration of AMERICAN KESTRELS. Rick Heil reported 376 migrating past lot one during the day long...
PI Birders, A little late on the report. The web pages are up to date with sightings from yesterday, including those from the lot one hawk watch. If you...
PI Birders, The web pages are up to date. The year list race continues to tighten, with eight contestants over 100 and starting to bunch up! We've added two...
PI Birders, Heads up. Doug Chickering and I had both a PIED-BILLED GREBE and an AMERICAN BITTERN at the North Pool from the North Pool Overlook this morning....
Today's fine weather brought out the birders (22 of them) for out Wednesday morning birding program out of Joppa Flats. As one participant commented, this was...
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