PI/MA Birders, Rick Heil and I conducted another marsh bird survey by canoe in North Pool yesterday evening. Thanks to recent rains and pumping efforts by the...
I was South Plover Warden from 8:30 to noon today. It was very busy with tons of visitors -- the Sandy Point parking lot was full by 8:30 -- so I didn't have a...
Jonathan, The saltmarsh sparrows are basically everywhere there is marsh on the refuge, from north of the refuge to just north of Stage Island Pool. They may...
PI Birders, I've been lax lately lexing the group, though I've been keeping the sightings pages up to date. My highlights on the refuge yesterday included a...
This morning, refuge biologist, Nancy Pau, and I conducted the weekly waterbird survey of Stage Island Pool and Bill Forward Pool. The shorebirds are coming...
WEDNESDAY, 5 JULY 2006: PLUM ISLAND (1800-2010 hrs.) Selected list: Gadwall (42): Incl. f. w/11 yg.-BFP, f. w/6 yg.-SIP. Am. Black Duck (9) Blue-winged Teal...
PI Birders, Here's an update on the July tally. We are now at 96 species for the month. Here are the additions for the past few days. The full file is always...
PI Birders, Thanks to your geeky group coordinator, most of the pages on my website and the July tally file at the plumislandgroups website are now current...
For those of you interested in seeing Plum Island photos, I have added this link http://www.pbase.com/ne_wildlife_photography/plum_island to the "Links"...
We swung down to Parker River on the 6th (Thursday) and saw all sorts of cool birds, including a black-crowned night heron and a glossy ibis pair (which flew...
PI/MA Birders, Lu and I made a late afternoon visit to the Hellcat dikes today. There were two first summer LITTLE GULLS roosting on the newly exposed flats in...
PI/MA Birders, Steve Haydock and I just passed a thoroughly enjoyable hour and a half at the Hellcat dikes and the new blind on Forward Pool. The two LITTLE...
Yesterday at PI: I Arrived at refuge 5:13am and headed for Sandy Point Along the way I saw 3 rabbits 33 Brown Thrashers the length of the refuge including 3...
SUNDAY, 9 JULY 2006: PLUM ISLAND (aka, Parker River National Beach and Recreation area) (0900-1345 hrs.): South to Emerson Rocks. Weather: Partly cloudy, WSW...
PI/MA Birders, Sorry for the timewarp message this morning. Deep down I do know it's July. Made a second trip to Hellcat late this afternoon where I found...
PI/MA Birders, Just back from a quick afternoon scamper to the pines trail platform. The two stilt sandpipers reported by Oakes and Herman earlier in the day...
PI/MA Birders, My report of white-rumped sandpipers from the Pines pans yesterday was 99.99999% in error. My lame excuse is that I was looking into a setting...
PI Birders, Couple housekeeping things. First, I've converted the quarter month status chart for 2006 to use the same graphic symbols that the overall quarter...
This early afternoon, Nancy Pau, Joel McNeal, and I conducted the weekly waterbird survey of Bill Forward Pool and Stage Island Pool. The water levels in both...
PI/MA Birders, Rick Heil and I did another North Pool marsh bird survey by canoe this evening (last evening now). The big story in my opinion continues to be...
I was south plover warden from 8:00 AM to noon today at PRNWR. South here means the beach at lot 6. It was pretty much the usual suspects except for a LITTLE...
Phil Brown contacted Steve Grinley at about 1 PM with a godwit with white axillaries. Phil was viewing the bird just south of the Salt Pannes at the Parker ...
Linda Ferraresso phoned just after 6 PM. The Black-tailed Godwit has been relocated and is in the muddy area of the North Pool with grasses and weeds. It is...
16-17 July 2006: PLUM ISLAND Highlights As reported earlier, the superb transitional adult BLACK-TAILED GODWIT found and photographed by Phil Brown this...
PI Birders, After the remarkable discovery yesterday of a BLACK-TAILED GODWIT (first Plum Island record) by Phil Brown brought out the initial gang of...
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