PI Birders, Thanks to a message from Brian Harris yesterday I went looking for Rusty Blackbirds in Goodno Woods today. Sure enough there were two males near...
PI Birders, Thanks to reports from many birders, the April tally after one day currently sits at 84 species, a very nice start to the month, and that's no...
PI Birders, Based on Rick Heil's report the April tally update for yesterday, the 2nd, increased by two more than in the last report. Rick added Common ...
PI Birders, No stilts or ptarmigan on Plum today. During a short trip onto the island this morning I was able to add two species to the April tally. April 3 92...
PI Birders, One-a-day story. Sorry. If you've read my recent posts you know I have seen Common Mergansers on the island twice this year (March 26th and 31st),...
PI Birders, I got a couple emails today that affect the tallies, and Rick's report from the island today could also be depended upon to add to the tallies. ...
PI Birders, Got to the island by 6:30 this morning so able to spend two hours! Highlights included: Brant -- 5 in marshes north of Stage and 25 at Sandy Pt. ...
Also posted on Massbird: The weather forecast kept Wednesday Morning Birding attendance down to a stalwart few who ventured out onto Plum Island from Joppa...
Tom and PI birds, Regarding the list of birds seen in a month and how the counts are increasing for the most part, do you think that? a) More people are bird...
PI Birders, There was a new bird added to the April tally both yesterday and today. Yesterday was an American Bittern at Hellcat seen by Marilyn Lampe, and...
PI Birders, Here's my response to Nancy's question about why our monthly bird tallies are so much higher than the numbers I have listed for earlier years. ...
PI Birders, A Tom Swifty report for the 7th, said Tom, ornithologically. Lots of rain. Dave Adrien picked up April species ONE HUNDRED today, a Ruby-crowned ...
PI Birders, Birding on the island was pretty raw, slow, bleak, and quiet this morning. So I was surprised that I could come up with three personal island year...
Sightings from my first plover warden shift of the season (south boundary), directly transcribed from my notebook therefore in the order in which I saw them....
PI Birders, Here's an evening report based on a second trip to the island, talking to friends on the island, and posts and reports. If this is like most...
MA Birders, Here are my highlights from Plum Island today, April 9th. Peregrine Falcon -- 1, marshes west of pans, has been in this area at least the last four...
PI Birders, For such a lousy weekend it really was quite a nice weekend, with plenty of new and fine birds on Plum Island. Here is the April tally for the last...
Tom, I wish I could say the same about Connecticut Warblers! That would still be a life bird... but then I've never seen a White-Breasted Nuthatch on PI...
PI Birds, I spent a good time on Plum Island on Sunday, taking pictures and making new friends. I finally had a chance to go through the photos today that I...
PI Birders, I try to limit these blatant, gratuitous personal listing posts, but couldn't resist this time. I hit a big one-a-day list milestone yesterday....
Saw the following today on the island. Double-crested Cormorant - 2 Great Blue Heron - 1 Snowy Egret - 1 in the marsh south of the pans Great Egret - 1 just...
PI Birders, For a Tuesday I got reports from a surprising number of people today, and the sightings pages are now up to date with those reports, but I'm still...
PI Birders, With Rick Heil's report now in-hand, I've updated the sightings pages and tallies. Here is the April tally as of yesterday the 11th, now at 119,...
PI Birders, Quick report during my lunch break here in geek town. It was another day to be sorely tempted to call in sick. Plum Island was again quite birdy...
PI Birders, The Plum Island April tally is now 120 species, a nice round figure, but short of previous years' numbers. This is to be expected since April is...
PI Birders, I was on the island from 6:00 to 8:30 this morning. As beautiful as the weather is now, it was quite foul early this morning, overcast, scattered...
PI Birders, Here's our April tally updates from the past two days. The gnatcatcher was also year bird 146. With these additions we have passed the March tally...
PI Birders, Quick report from this morning. Bird numbers are down a bit as we await the next wave of migrants. The highlight of the morning was hearing three...
I spent a little time on Plum Island yesterday from about 1:00 to 2:15 pm, at about high tide, conducting bird surveys for FWS on Stage Island Pool and Bill...
PI and MA Birders, Here are my highlights from among the 65 species seen on Plum Island today. Note that there were two Snowy Owls today, so we are not down to...
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