The last day of 2011 brought a welcome surprise – an email from a research professor at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. He was writing to thank me for submitting a report of a Canada Goose that his team had banded in the summer of 2008 in a remote part of Western Greenland. I […]
Continue Reading →Winter Tracks – published in the Monadnock Shopper Jan 12 2011
Winter Tracks My wife and I arrived in Manhattan at noon on December 26th, just a few hours before the arrival of the big blizzard. Reportedly the sixth biggest snowfall in recorded history, it dumped 20 inches on the city. Even in the current depressed property market, NYC real estate goes for upwards of $1,000 […]
Continue Reading →An Unusual Visitor – published in the Monadnock Shopper December 29 2010
Unusual Visitor I received the following email on December 16th: Hi Eric, This white-winged crossbill showed up at our feeder last week and is still returning daily. I had never seen one before and was struck by the interesting coloring. Also I never saw a wild bird that was so un-affected by my […]
Continue Reading →Census Time Again – published in the Monadock Shopper December 15
Census Time Again On December 18th and 19th, census workers will be out in force on the streets and roads of southwest New Hampshire, counting heads as part of a national effort to better understand population dynamics in the US. Sound familiar? After a summer of fussing about being counted, at least now we know […]
Continue Reading →The “Right” Whale (published in the Monadnock Shopper, December 1 2010)
I saw two “lifers” in the last month, the Townsend’s warbler in Walpole, and a North Atlantic right whale that I spotted while birding with Eastmans out of Hampton Harbor (www.eastmansdocks.com). I had seen neither the warbler nor the whale before for good reason. I have yet to get to the west coast where the […]
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