PI/MA Birders, Snowy Owls have made it to May on Plum Island this year. There was one sitting on a refuge boundary sign behind the wardens this morning, then...
Nancy Pau and I conducted our weekly waterbird survey of Bill Forward Pool and Stage Island Pool for Parker River NWR between 1:15 and 2:30 this afternoon. We...
PI Birders, I'm getting behind, so just a quick note tonight. I hope to get a few more things done during my inter-sleep period around 3:00 this morning. But...
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May 2, 2006 6:00 am
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the plumislandbirds group: How many bird species will we see on Plum Island in May 2006? I'll compute...
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May 2, 2006 6:30 am
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Hi Birders, Here's my belated report from Plum Island to start May. It was a tough day with northeast winds. Not much action, but still always nice to be up...
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May 2, 2006 9:32 am
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PI Birders, Far as I know only Dave Adrien and myself were [______] (fill in the word) enough to be out birding on the island today. Dave walked Sandy Point in...
PI/MA Birders, Today there was a soggy, sad looking Snowy Owl quite close to the road just southwest of lot three on the Parker River NWR. Let's see now, today...
Let me clarify - we have never seen Snowy Owl on the Joppa Flats Bird-a-thon - has anyone seen one in MA while birding for a different team? Ann Gurka ...
PI/MA Birders, And suddenly they were there. Noisy Willets heard from the salt marshes of Plum Island. At least eight between the boat ramp and the pans, and...
PI Birders, About time I sent a May tally update. With the inclement weather things have been slow. Based on current reports here's how the tally has moved...
PI Birders, [Flash: A Snowy Owl continues today on and to the west of the North Pool dike; eight days to Birdathon]. Couldn't resist this early bulletin. Plum...
MA/PI Birders, Plum Island was like all other locations reported from today; alive with birds with many new arrivals. I spent five hours on the island in the...
PI Birders, After getting a few more reports from the island yesterday, the May tally jumped a substantial 34 species yesterday. Half of those, 17 species,...
Hi, I want to make a visit to PI tomorrow (Sunday 5/7), but I don't want to get eaten alive. How are the bugs currently? Thanks much, David Blood-Deschamps...
PI Birders, Far fewer migrants on Plum Island today, but birders found a good group of new birds to add to the May and 2006 tallies. Pending any further...
Hi Birders, Brian Harris and I spent a few hours on Plum Island today before cruising around other spots in Essex County. Below are our Plum Island...
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May 7, 2006 10:41 pm
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The Snowy Owl was sited on the marsh west of the S-curves. I guess the weather wasn't warm enough over the last few days to make it want to head further north....
PI/MA Birders, Today could not compete with Friday, but there was good birding on the island nevertheless. My list is below. I'm looking forward to seeing Rick...
PI/MA Birders, Another good morning on Plum Island, though I could not find the White-eyed Vireo or Cape May Warbler that will undoubtedly rank among the...
PI Birders, With all (most?) reports in, here are the May and 2006 tally birds for the past two days. We are moving well towards 200+ birds for May, but as you...
PI Birders, I was on a schedule of shamelessly posting the results of my Plum Island one-a-day quest every 25 days, but since day 125 coincided with the bird...
PI/MA Birders, Before dashing off to work here's a quick report from Plum Island. There was a White-eyed Vireo along the road just south of the Goodno ...
PI Birders, I doubt many will want to repeat the experience of standing in a pouring, driving rain on Sandy Point today, but if you do you may be rewarded with...
PI Birders, I was able to visit Plum Island twice on Friday, first in the morning, and later in the afternoon. The list of birds encountered is below. Birds...
Mass Birders and PI Birders, What miserable weather we are having! Everyone at work will think that I am crazy for having gone out today to Plum Island and...
PI/MA Birders, Here's a Plum Island update for a very rainy Birdathon. There were many teams on the island today, so I can't pretend to know what all of them...
PI/MA Birders, While my daughters took my wife to Mother's Day brunch, I made a short trip to Plum Island to look for phalaropes. At the (now very flooded)...
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