For a change, other venues called for this morning's Wednesday Morning Birding -- Pikul's Farm and Salisbury Beach State Reservation. Bill Gette and I led our...
PI Birders, November is off to a good start. There may be another report or two to add in later, but here is the tally from today based on what I know now....
PI Birders, I birded on the refuge from 6:10 to 8:30 this morning, most of the time in the rain, and was able to find a few more species for the November list....
PI Birders, The November tally now stands at 65. Note that there was an addition to yesterday, a Pied-billed Grebe seen by Sherrill Pierce. Here are the...
PI Birders, Short early report in case you might be heading for the island today. The Ruddy Ducks (2) and American Coots (3) are still on Stage Island Pool....
Hi PI birders, This morning, Jean Adams and I conducted the weekly waterbird surveys of Stage Island Pool and Bill Forward Pool. Birds on Stage Island Pool...
PI Birders, A nice day! Folding together Joel McNeal's birds, Terry Bronson's birds, Don Southall's Field Sparrow and my birds, the November tally increased by...
PI Birders, Checking email at 2:00 a.m. found two more reports from Plum Island in the inbox. After integrating the new reports the tally for yesterday grew by...
Ten birders joined Lew Bushnell and me for the Menotomy Bird Club trip to Plum Island. Our main highlights were two Lapland Longspurs on the beach at Sandy...
PI Birders, Maybe I should wait until 2:00 a.m. again, but I'll take a chance and send the November tally update info based on what I have now. After a few...
PI/MA Birders, Looks like word didn't get on these yet. Jim Hully saw and photographed the GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE that was banded on Plum Island on Halloween. The...
PI Birders, Another fine day for birds on the refuge. The high point was Jim Hully's rediscovery of the GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE that was banded on the island on...
PI Birders, Here's the update to the November tally. Yesterday increased by one when I remembered to add the Common Mergansers that Jim Hully saw (also at the...
PI Birders, Quick morning report. This morning there were two SNOW GEESE on Stage Island Pool among the 500 or so Canadas. Along the south road, a little north...
PI Birders, The November tally grew by two today with the birds mentioned in my earlier report, Snow Goose and Fox Sparrow. After my report of 2 Snow Geese at...
PI Birders, I got to the island in the intermittent rain this morning, and took short walks at the Wardens and Hellcat. I admit that when the alarm when off...
PI Birders, Another morning report from the island. Still pretty yucky weather, but I managed to get out by 6:10 today. The SNOW GEESE at Stage have managed to...
This afternoon with the high tide, Nancy Pau, Joel McNeal, and I conducted the weekly waterbird surveys of Bill Forward and Stage Island Pools. The mist and...
PI/MA Birders, This is my report to the Plum Island group, but I'm cross posting to Massbird because of mention of the GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE. The Green-tailed...
PI Birders, It was a beautiful day on the island, though quite windy. Many birders spent many hours looking for the Green-tailed Towhee. It was finally seen...
PI/MA Birders, Just back from a morning on the Plum Island. My second species on the island was a SNOWY OWL sitting on the large blind visible from the Plum...
I birded Plum Island today from 0630-1330 with a total of 55 species. Highlights were the GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE seen at 0700ish with Tim Spahr and Tom Wetmore,...
PI Birders, As you may have read by now, the GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE was seen again today, in the early morning and in the late aftenoon, but apparently not in...
PI/MA Birders, The GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE made its morning appearance today south of the North Pool Overlook. Lots of happy birders this morning. It spent much of...
The highlights of a mornings birding at Plum today were the Green-tailed Towhee again at the same spot, and hearing it sing once at about 0830, four species of...
PI Birders, Thanks to a belated report from Jake Miller and a November splurge of warblers found by Ian Davies, the November tally made a nice jump this...
We took a trip down to Parker River this weekend-- I didn't get many photos, but I did get a few. November 11th pictures-- Northern Harrier, Greater...
PI Birders, Thanks to Chris Floyd the Green-tailed Towhee was found again today. So today is the fifth day in a row the bird has been found along the road...