PI/MA Birders, Barring late reports the Plum Island database is now up to date through the first half of 2008. (So are the web pages.) Here are a few...
TUESDAY, 1 JULY 2008: PLUM ISLAND, MA (0700-1115 hrs.) Weather: Mostly sunny, light variable winds, 70-80 F. Richard S. Heil Selective list: Canada Goose (70) ...
PI Birders, Bimbos, After trying to close the books on June yesterday, Tim Factor, high echelon Bimbo birder, sent me a report of a PARASITIC JAEGER off lot ...
PI Birders, Greg Keller and Tim O'Connell reported a RUFF from Hellcat late this morning. This is species number 260 for the year. Take a look at the last...
PI/MA Birders, Warren Tatro located a Ruff at Stage Island Pool this morning around 7:00. The bird was a male with migrating out of of a black ruff. Around...
PI Birders, I was just going through the reports I've received for the past couple days in preparation for an update to the Plum Island web pages tonight. ... ...
SUNDAY, 6 JULY 2008: PLUM ISLAND (0745-1400 hrs.) Weather: Partly sunny, lt. variable winds, 72-75 F. Richard S. Heil Selective list: Mute Swan (11) American...
TUESDAY, 8 JULY 2008: PLUM ISLAND (1600-2015 hrs.) Weather: Hazy sunshine, SW 10-15 mph, 92-82 F. High tide: 9.2' at 1630 hrs. Richard S. Heil Selective List: ...
PI/MA Birders, Fall shorebird migration is well underway at Plum Island, with numbers of (primarily adult female) Short-billed Dowitchers rising steadily. The...
PI/MA Birders, I visited Stage Island Pool this morning, hoping to find one of the Stilt Sandpipers that have been seen there the past few days. No joy. While...
PI/MA Birders, If you listened to Rick's Jot message you probably deciphered the message, but in case you didn't, there were two RUFFS at Stage Island Pool...
THURSDAY, 10 JULY 2008: PLUM ISLAND (1630-2100 hrs.) Weather: Mostly clear, NW winds 10-15 mph, 84-78 F. Richard S. Heil (and Tom Wetmore in part) Gadwall...
After reading recent taunts from the chief plummer I am sure many of our hearty bimbos have been a little discouraged, and to this I will remind my fellow...
PI/Boston Birders, After long hiatus the Boston Bimbos have added a new species, Least Bittern, to their 2008 list. A great addition. The bombast with which it...
PI Birders, The pages at my web site are up to date with reports received. We passed 30,000 sightings for the year today, a great milestone. Thanks to so many...
TUESDAY, 15 JULY 2008: PLUM ISLAND, MA (0930-1915 hrs.) Weather: Mostly clear, WNW winds 5 mph becoming SE 5-10 mph in P.M., 75-82 F. Richard S. Heil Canada...
PI Birders, Just updated the web pages for sightings up to yesterday, including Rick Heil's long list of sightings from yesterday. It's been a while since I...
PI Birders, The Plum Island web pages are up to date with yesterday's sightings. We've had two additions to the July list since my last report... July 16 115...
PI Birders, While on the island early this morning I stopped at the wardens with hopes of seeing the king rail or a juvenile willet as I had one of the last...
PI Birders, The websites are up to date with yesterday's (Saturday's) sightings (Nancy Landry's and my own). I was able to add two species to the July tally....
PI Birders, Both Nancy Landry and Sue McGrath hit the books and answered my question about King Rail chicks and whether their parents feed them. King Rail...
PI/MA Birders, The most unexpected bird, though maybe it shouldn't have been, on my walk out to the old blind on Plum Island this morning, was a NORTHERN ...
TUESDAY, 22 JULY 2008: PLUM ISLAND (1330-1800 hrs.) High tide: Approx. 1500 hrs, 8.7 feet. Afternoon focus on shorebirds: All shorebirds were adults unless...
Mass birders, Incompetent management at the Parker River NWR on Plum Island continues unabated. Once again exactly as last year a number of the very same...
PI/MA Birders, This morning I also had a BLACK TERN at the pans on Plum Island. Also a single WILSON'S STORM-PETREL off lot one, culminating a number of hours...
Margo and I returned to Plum Island after a month's absence and though we intended to only bird the boat ramp, we ended up staying for more than 6 hours. The...
PI Birders, The Plum Island web pages are up to date from three reports today -- thanks to Will Sweet; Doug Chickering and Lois Cooper; and Steve Grinley and...
SATURDAY, 26 JULY 2008: PLUM ISLAND, MA (1700-2030 hrs.): Primarily three spots: North End, Lot One Beach, and Sandy Pt. Weather: Mostly clear, SE winds 10-15...
BBC'ers, I am reluctantly cancelling my Plum Island BBC walk for later this afternoon due to an imposing line of heavy thunderstorms moving eastward. It's...
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