Bear with me while I get technology sorted out. The website is still being tweaked, and will shortly include an interactive map and other features. I made it to Pack Monadnock today for the start of this migration of sorts. The clock and my vocabulary conspire against me to do justice to my feelings, but […]
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I have been operating a nocturnal flight call station from my house in Hancock for several years, recording nocturnal migrants each spring and fall as they pass over, sight unseen. If a sparrow flies over my house and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound? The answer is yes, if the […]
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If you have been to a hawkwatch in New England during mid-September you will have heard people talk knowingly about kettles. Perhaps the term was explained to you as the collective noun for a tight group of thermaling hawks, but that doesn’t tell you about the etymology of this strange phrase. I have heard the […]
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Update #2 April 1, 2016 This is a rough but fairly accurate outline of my route, with nearest major cities. I am trying to contain the costs of this 6-month endeavor by limiting the number of hotel nights. So, if you think you live on or near the route and would be willing to put […]
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I encountered this scene in a Charlestown cornfield on March 11, 2016. The remains of at least six snow geese judging by the eleven wings and three carcasses with neck and head intact. Each carcass had the breast meat cut out as if it were a Sunday roast. According to NHFG there is a spring […]
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