PI Birders, Nancy Landry and I were both very early on Plum Island this morning. I passed through the gate at 5:30 and Nancy at 5:35. We both heard AMERICAN...
PI Birders, Getting March off to a good start before the snows this morning... everybody who reported got Woodcock! Okay! March 1 (34) 1 Canada Goose...
Birding this morning was trying at times, wonderful at other times -- mostly the latter. The wind was what made it trying -- N to NW/10-15 mph w/ a gust or...
PI Birders, I've just finished updating the Plum Island birding pages for the the 5th and the 6th. Birding is still quiet on the island with still very few...
Hello Birders, Leslie Kramer phoned at about 8:30 this morning to report a flock of 50 Redpolls at the south end of the North Field. Margo Goetschkes ...
PI Birders, It was a much better day and a much better day for birds on the Parker River NWR today. I think I had about 45 species. I'll be getting the ...
PI Birders, The pages are finally up to date; yes, a little late. When I added up my yesterday list it was an even 50 species. We added twelve species to the...
PI birders, How does one at times count the birds you see, after all they do have wings? Today come in question as to how many snowy owls I saw. Was there only...
PI Birders, MA Birders The Plum Island birding web pages are up to date with reports from Nancy Landry and Sherrill Pierce. If you subscribe to the the Plum ...
PI Birders, The web pages are up to date after a lapse of about three days. Thanks to Warren Tatro and Doug Chickering for their reports. I got to the island...
PI Birder, True, they are not White-fronts. As I was leaving Plum Island this morning there was a flock of 12 Snow Geese flying up the marsh and quite close,...
PI Birders, I made it to the island at 6:05am this morning to find that the gates were open. While heading down the island I kept my window open to listen for...
PI Birders, Rick Heil and Jeremiah Trimble found a first year THAYER'S GULL at Bill Forward Pool yesterday. It was there with other gulls all afternoon,...
PI Birders, The Thayer's Gull was in the same spot this morning, sitting and preening on the ice in the middle of Bill Forward Pool. There was a male...
I was at Bill Forward Pool from 11:45 to 12:15 this morning, viewing from the blind just south of Hellcat. About noon the 1st winter Thayer's Gull discovered...
Around 5:30 this afternoon I discovered a flock of seven ROSS'S GEESE in the fields near the intersection of Northgate Road and Argilla Road in Ipswich,...
PI Birders, I just updated the Plum Island birding web pages with today's sightings. For the third day the first year Thayer's Gull spent time at Bill Forward...
PI Birders, I spent a couple hours with Rick Heil at lot one today watching migrants and others pass by. Included were the following: EASTERN PHOEBE -- 1 TREE...
PI Birders, Sorry that I forgot this on my earlier post today, but I was in a hurry to get out of the house for an appointment. Rick also found a COMMON TEAL...
THURSDAY, 19 MARCH 2009: PLUM ISLAND (0705-1405 hrs.) Weather: Overcast, occasional light showers/mist, SW-NW winds 5-20 mph, 43-46 F. Richard S. Heil There...
PI Birders, The sightings pages are now up to date with Rick Heil's two reports from today and yesterday, and from my short trip to the island this afternoon...
PI Birders, I've just updated the sightings pages based on reports from Warren Tatro, Nancy Landry, Jeremiah Trimble, and from my two trips to the island...
PI/MA Birders, When I arrived at lot seven, Plum Island, early this morning, about 6:40, before dawn, there were seven adult white geese roosting on the far...
PI/MA Birders, What is happening in the goose world? After finding seven ROSS'S GEESE on Stage Island Pool early this morning, I got a call from Nancy Landry...
PI,Mass Birders, I was fortunately to find one Ross's goose among 4 snow geese at Cross Farm Hill on Plum Island today. At finding it I made a few calls and...
PI Birders, I posted the two pictures of the Ross's goose here to the photo album 2009. To view them just sign in and click on the new pictures link up top. ...
PI/MA Birders, Today was an exciting day on Plum Island, with a number of new arrivals, and with a new species added to the island's avifauna. The pages on my...