PI Birders, November is over. What a great month for birds on the island. The tally ended at 162. There were some amazing birds during the month. I had 6 Plum...
Gary and I birded the refuge this morning. Our list: Red-throated Loon (lot 1) Common Loon (lot 7) Horned Grebe (lot 1) Red-necked Grebe (lot 1) Northern...
Also posted on Massbird: I led a small group of people out of Joppa Flats Education Center onto Plum Island between 0930 and 1230. We began with some sunshine...
I neglected to mention that we saw a few Green-winged Teal at Bill Forward Pool from the new blind. The number of Green-wings seen at Stage Island fuzzied my...
PI Birders, I want to bring up an issue that I think about from time to time, an issue that I don't have a good answer for. I've been keeping up the Plum...
Tom, I think that although this is for fun, it could also be educational for newer birders out there as well, in several ways. For one, I believe that birders...
PI Birders, December started well. At least four "reporting entities" were on the island today. The combined total was 71. Yeah, pretty good start. I've...
Hi Tom, list members: I think if you're polite, and you are always polite, Tom, then asking for details and clarification for unusual sightings is perfectly...
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Dec 2, 2005 3:10 am
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I really like the suggestions people gave. Best said if your polite about it then I feel there is no problem. We were all their once as begginer birders making...
PI Birders, Based on a short trip to the island this morning and a report from Nancy Landry, the December tally increased by five to 76 today. Nancy originally...
PI Birders, Thanks to those who responded to my question about handling unusual records; some responded to the group and some to me privately. The consensus is...
Birders, PI Birders, For the second day there is a SNOWY OWL on Plum Island. Today's bird, also discovered by Nancy Landry, is in the dunes to the north of the...
PI Birders, 'T'was a beautiful though windy day on the island. The Snowy Owl spend the entire day in the dunes near lot seven, first seen at 8:30, last around...
PI Birders, Thanks to a few additional reports, we added three more birds to the December tally. Here's the updated additions list. We have passed the full...
PI Birders, Last night I put together a "December target list," birds we haven't yet added to the December list, but birds that are quite reasonable to expect....
First thanks to Nancy Landry of Mass Birds for spotting the owl. I had only seen them at great distances before and I had a chance to take a few photos ...
Yesterday I was walking on the Pines Trail and came across an origami peace crane in the underbrush. I'm just back from the Festival of the Cranes at Bosque...
PI Birders, I just spent three very slippery hours on Plum Island. At the North Pool Overlook, I heard a RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER calling loudly in the woody...
I spent a large part of this afternoon at PRNWR looking for the snowy owl and the pied billed grebe without finding either. Here is what I did find: Common...
I had stopped to take some shots of this bird just before Tom pulled up and it wasn't until I got home that I realized the bird was banded on the right leg. ...
Jim, Fantastic shots. When I was watching this bird eat I had simply assumed it was munching on one of the many starlings that roost under the bridge. From...
PI Birders, Once again we are doing a wonderful job finding birds on the island in this new month. According to what's been posted or sent me for today, we...
PI Birders, The December tally has reached 95 species, with the addition of a RED- SHOULDERED HAWK from yesterday (a very difficult bird for the island), and a...
PI Birders, Quick morning report from the island. A very raw morning with brisk northeast winds and occasional snow showers. Elemental beauty. Bird numbers are...
Birders, PI Birders, Reminder. Avoid dissapointment. The Parker River NWR is closed tomorrow. Good birding (elsewhere), Tom Wetmore, ttw4(at)verizon(dot)net ...
PI Birders, Big news today was Steve Grinley's rediscovery of the Snowy Owl in the dunes north of lot seven. If you link to Newburyport Birders' home page at...
PI Birders, Mass Birders I was on the Plum Island from 7:10 to 8:35 this morning. There was a Snowy Owl along the south-east edge of Stage Island Pool, visible...
Hi to all, I am Nancy Landry and I am new both to birding and to your group and wanted to say hi to one and all. As some may know, I had spotted the saw-whet...
Nancy, Good question. Steve Grinley's store, Bird Watcher's Supply and Gift, Newburyport, has become the unofficial clearing house for sightings. Their phone...
PI Birders, ONE HUNDRED BY THE EIGTH! Three new December bird species today! For an even one hundred. Here's the tally since the 5th. December 5 95 Brown...
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