I spent a couple of days earlier this month with Eugene Sweeney, a birding friend from Ireland. Instead of hitting Wexford, which is what we have always done when I go home, we headed north to Donegal, hitting Malin Head and Inch Marshes. This was my first time to the latter site and I had […]
Continue Reading →On September 6th, 2016, I leave NH by bicycle to travel south following the Broad-winged Hawk migration from New Hampshire to South America. All going well, I expect to cross five time zones, 40 degrees of latitude, and 5,000 miles in pursuit of the birds. Biologists at the Pack Monadnock Raptor Observatory in southern New Hampshire record several thousand migrant […]
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The flats on Powder Mill Pond continue to attract, and hold birds. Today, Wednesday September 9th, brought the 11th and 12th shorebird species of the season – American Golden-Plover and Pectoral Sandpiper. Just one more species to tie the 2011 tally. A cold front tonight augurs well for tomorrow. Totals today: Blue-winged Teal – 2 […]
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As luck would have it, rock worm have been having a field day with the Monadnock Paper Mill dam on the Contoocook River. This dam is responsible for creating Powder Mill Pond, which is a fine pond for birding under normal circumstances. But for the second fall in five years, the pond has been drained […]
Continue Reading →I flew to Nashville via Chicago on Friday. The plane overflew some of my favorite birding haunts along the Connecticut River, from Charlestown to Walpole. I had planned on taking a day next week to check them out. Waterfowl should be starting to move north very soon. St. Patricks Day is peak (apparently the venerable […]
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