PI Birders, I birded with Doug Chickering and Warren Tatro for a few hours yesterday morning, May 1st. I love birding on the island no matter the conditions,...
PI Birders, Just got the pages up to date. There were some additions for May 1st, so here is the full list for the first, now with 71 species ... Brant, Canada...
PI Birders, It was a slow day but a good day. Warblers were around in one's and two's with 9 species being seen or heard by myself. My full list is below. ...
PI Birders, With the arrival of the warblers and other migrants, and the concomitant extra attention by birders, and the subsequent lack of free time since I...
In addition to many of the same birds already listed for May 3rd we had a Yellow- Breasted Chat along the road between Goodno woods and the Hellcat parking...
PI Birders, The Hooded Warbler discovered yesterday was present in the same area this morning, along the road between the Hellcat parking lot and the Goodno...
PI Birders, I spent some time early this morning walking the road around Hellcat looking/listening for the Hooded Warbler. I gave up and started back on the ...
PI Birders, The Plum Island birding web pages are up to date with today's sightings. Yes, there were some birders odd enough to head out to the island today. I...
Bill Gette and I led this morning's Wednesday Morning Birding program out of Joppa Flats Education Center onto Plum Island. The earlier rain gave way to ...
Birders, Early this morning, I did the weekly nest checks on Plum Island's Purple Martins. Given yesterday's cold, raw and rainy weather, the martins were...
PI Birders, For a relatively lousy day, with almost nothing happing in migration for many days, it's still great how many birds can be found in our favorite...
PI Birders, It was a gloomy day to have off from work to go birding on the island but as I have told my co-workers that I have some of my best birding days in...
'EXTREME PELAGIC' BOAT TRIP - 27 JUNE 2009 Join the BROOKLINE BIRD CLUB on 27 June 2009 for the first in a series of extensive all day PELAGIC BOAT TRIPS out...
PI Birders, Quick report. It's a pretty darned good day on the island. I'm already imagining the mass of sightings I'm going to have to process this evening...
PI Birders, A nice day on the island today. The sightings pages are up to date with all reports received. There were a total of 19 species of warblers...
Plum Island Birders, On Plum Island, with a small group, on this pleasant, spring evening: Paula McFarland and I saw a migrating Common Nighthawk while we were...
PI Birders, It was a great birding day on Plum Island. I'll update the Plum Island bird group with the full species list later when I get more reports. There...
Hi Birders, I was one of the many birders out and about on Plum Island today, it it was definitely worth it. This was a pretty spectacular day all around. ...
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PI Birders, The star of the day had to be the Cape May Warbler seen in the s curves. The lighting was not good for photographs but I did manage to get a few...
PI Birders, The web pages are up to date with a number of reports. There will probably be more so there may be another update in the wee hours. The current...
PI Birders, Second update for the day done, with Doug checking in. It's been a few days since the last update on the May and 2009 tallies, so here are some...
SUNDAY, 10 MAY 2009: PLUM ISLAND Migration Watch (0540-1250, 1335-1700 hrs.) Weather: Partly to mostly cloudy, W-NW winds 15-40 mph,57-67 F. Richard S. Heil ...
PI/MA Birders, As some of you know a Snowy Owl was found dead on Plum Island a few weeks ago. The bird was taken to Norman Smith of Massachusetts Audubon who...
It was a lovely day on the island! David Larson and I led our merry band of Wednesday Morning Birders onto Plum Island under clear to partly cloudy skies,...
Birders, On Mother's Day, I did a round of House Sparrow evictions, and at dusk, I had 18 Purple Martins at Lot # 1 and 21 martins at the northern end of the...
PI Birders, 'T'was a bit quiet on the island this morning, yet an hour on the refuge is better than an hour anywhere else I know of. Most of the cutthroats...
Birders, Birders visiting the Greater Newburyport Area and locals alike will appreciate that the Derek Hines Bridge is scheduled to reopen on Friday, May 15th,...
PI Birders, Just updated the PI birding web pages. There were 20 species of warblers reported from the island today, and Brian Harris had all 20 of them!...
It was clearly a good day to visit the refuge. We didn't have nearly the numbers that some birders did, but we got some outstanding looks at some warblers as...