PI Birders, I birded the island from 1230-1630 today. I spent the majority of my time slowly walking the hellcat trails searching for migrant passerines with...
PI Birders, There will probably be a few to add to the following list, but as of this moment here is the September tally for the first of the month. Starting...
PI Birders, Just back from a seawatch at lot one. Fabulous Greater Shearwater show going on. At least 400 passing to the north in 45 minutes. Also 4 Manx...
PI Birders, Given the weather, today was a surprisingly birdy day on Plum Island. My big treat was seeing all the Greater Shearwaters at lot one along with a...
MONDAY, 4 SEPTEMBER 2006: PLUM ISLAND: refuge portion (0620-1430 hrs.) Weather: Mostly cloudy, W 10-20 mph, 62-70 F. Richard S. Heil Canada Goose (130) Gadwall...
To add a few birds to Rick and Tom's list, at Hellcat Phil Brown and I also had : Canada Warbler Black and White Warbler American Redstart Linda -- Linda...
TUESDAY, 5 SEPTEMBER 2006: PLUM ISLAND: entire refuge (0605-1830 hrs.) Weather: Cloudy, WNW 3-10 mph, 59-70 F. Richard S. Heil (w/Tom Wetmore in the A.M., and...
I spent the day on the island today from about 9:00 am to 5:30 pm. Total species: 55 or 56. Note: I basically went directly to Sandy Point and worked my way...
PI Birders, The September tally took big jumps Monday and Tuesday, thanks primarily to Rick having Monday and Tuesday off. I already reported on Monday, but...
It was, in Bill Gette's words, "a magical morning" for Wednesday Morning Birds out of Joppa Flats Educational Center in Newburyport. Bill and I co-led our...
PI Birders, After the big increases of Monday & Tuesday, the increases from the next two days were quite modest. Still new birds were seen both days. September...
PI Birders, It was fairly quiet on Plum Island this morning, though a walk along the Dune Trail before Goodno Woods did find a nice little pocket of warblers...
PI Birders, I forgot to mention another good bird this morning, an "IPSWICH" SPARROW in a small group of regular Savannah Sparrows at the first "midden dune"...
PI Birders, Reports keep coming in and birds keep arriving. Yesterday and today the September tally jumped by another 15 species and now stands at 150 species....
Yesterday, 9/8/06, Andrew Giunta and I conducted the weekly Bill Forward and Stage Island Pool waterbird surveys. Here is a list of what we found: Canada...
PI Birders, After adding in Joel's report from yesterday, and today's reports now in, the September tally is up another five species, now at 155. My sightings...
Hi Birders, I birded Plum Island today with Brian Harris and Tom Wetmore, we had a good day of birding. But also the birds were tough to come by. Highlights ...
Timothy Spahr
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Sep 10, 2006 9:42 pm
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PI Birders, I spent the morning birding with Tim Spahr and Brian Harris. Tim reported the birds the he and Brian saw during the whole day, a superset of my...
PI Birders, In case you can't wait for this coming winter's Snowy Owls on Plum Island, a 12-minute film about the 2006 Snowy Owl invasion in Montana has been...
PI Birders, I spent a much too quick hour and a half on the island this morning. Highlights included a flock of 11 American Wigeons in the pans (new September...
Hi Birders, I've got to work this Saturday (bleh) but to balance the hours I took today off (yippee). In short, this was a *TREMENDOUS* day on Plum Island....
Timothy Spahr
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Sep 12, 2006 8:14 pm
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Hi Birders, My apologies. I accidentally checked the Black-headed Gull box intstead of the Great Black-backed Gull box on my ebird report. Sorry! I managed...
Timothy Spahr
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Sep 13, 2006 9:53 am
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PI Birders, While emailing back and forth with Mike Baird today I found myself trying to rank the Plum Island warblers in terms of how easy they are to find...
PI Birders, I birded on Plum Island for a little over three hours this morning. For much of that time I was birding with Brian Harris and Tim Spahr. Here is my...
Hi PI birders, Here's the list for today. Brian, Tom and I had a pretty good morning. The Pines Trail was alive with a nice and varied mixed-species warbler...
Timothy Spahr
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Sep 17, 2006 9:30 pm
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SUNDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER 2006: Weather: Mostly clear, N 3-5 mph, 54-75 F. Richard S. Heil, Bob Heil PLUM ISLAND: refuge portion south to Old Pines (0630-1245 hrs.)...
We only stopped by Parker River briefly yesterday, but were fortunate enough to not only get to watch a whimbrel, but watch it come closer and closer and then...
PI Birders, I've been lax keeping the September list up to date. We had to take one bird off due to a slip of Tim's e-Bird fingers, but we've picked up three...
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