PI Birders, Cross-posted to MASSBIRD. 3 birders braved the ominous forecast to join me in birding Plum Island tonite. Thunder rumbled in the distance but we...
PI Birders, In the old business department, looks like we did beat the old May record by one. Kurk Dorsey's report of a Sooty Shearwater close of Sandy Point...
PI Birders, I delivered a revised version of the Parker River NWR bird checklist to the refuge today. It is quite different than the current version, and I'm...
PIBirders, Two trips to the island yesterday netted a few birds. Sightings are up on the web pages. The June tally increased by four: June 3 86 Green Heron...
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The following plumislandbirds poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: How many bird species will we see on Plum Island in May 2006?...
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Hi fellow Plum Island birders, I skipped back and forth to various spots on the island from a little before 6 AM to around 2:30 PM until my lack of lunch...
PI Birders, Back from New Hampshire this evening and I think I've caught up on the PI sightings. The June tally is now at 114. Too bad no one was around when...
PI Birders, I was able to spend a couple hours on the refuge this morning before work. My highlights included a courting pair of BLUE-WINGED TEALS head bobbing...
PI/MA Birders, Here are my rainy highlights from this morning on the Parker River NWR (all lot seven birds were seen from the tower): blue-winged teal -- 2...
PI Birders, Not a birder's heaven on the island Saturday. But we added four species to the June tally (though none for the 2006 tally). Here are the new birds:...
PI Birders, Here's my birds from the refuge from Sunday. Note a few highlights: a FORSTER'S TERN at North Pool Overlook, showing light primaries, white ...
Mike Pachomski and I birded the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge on Plum Island today from 8:15 am to 4:30 pm. Number of species: 55. Highlights: ...
Andrew Giunta, FWS summer biotechnician, and I conducted the Bill Forward Pool and Stage Island Pool waterbird survey this morning on Parker River National...
PI/MA Birders, Rick Heil and I did the second North Pool marsh bird canoe survey this evening. Below are the marsh birds recorded at the ten survey points. The...
PI Birders, I've been lax updating the tally information. The June tally now stands at 124, and the 2006 tally at 252. Here are the updates to the June tally...
Thanks to Rick Heil for his suggestion regarding the mystery bird Mike Pachomski and I heard on Plum Island yesterday. 3 others voted for Clapper Rail. After...
PI Birders, Another tally update. We are at 126 species for June now, not 124. First, I forgot the Whip-poor-wills that Rick and I heard last night as we were...
PI Birders, There is a molting BLACK GUILLEMOT off Emerson Rocks this morning. Probably the same bird reported by Terry Bronson on the 12th and possibly the...
Without embellishment (gotta make a 6 pm ferry in New London!), Bill Gette and I led the Wednesday Morning Birding group out of Joppa Flats Education Center...
PI Birders, Here'my sightings from today on the refuge. We are in the middle of the summer breeding season. But soon the fall migration of shorebirds will...
Mass Birders and Plum Island Birders, For an as yet inexplicable reason the Parker River NWR let a great deal of water out of North Pool yesterday or last...
Irregardless of one's position on the issue as a whole - Tom's point is well taken - there are birds on nests being disrupted - why do this now? Why not let...
PI/MA Birders, First, there is little news to report on the North Pool situation. We did discover that the main control gates were open this morning during the...
PI/MA Birders, I have received the explanation for the North Pool water level drop. The plan was to drop the water level a foot or two in order to solve the...
Having seen the information about the North Pool from this weekend, I am wondering if anyone (Tom?) has a sense of how much damage may have been done to...
The staff of the Parker River NWR opened the gate to drain the North Pool freshwater impoundment "a little" and "forgot to close it" for more then 72 hours,...
PI Birders, It's beel a little while since I sent the list an update on the June tally. Here's the last few additions. We're up to 133, still well short of the...
PI/MA Birders, I've had many emails from members of both lists concerning the North Pool situation. Though I have no official relationship with the refuge,...
Today's visit was from 8:15 am to 2:15 pm. I could not even get into Sandy Point as both lots and lot 7 were all full by noon. Number of species: 46. Nothing...
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