Again with the Connecticut I hear you say. Well get used to it for at least another month!  I checked out Great Meadows in Charlestown, NH and then did another dusk count of goose migration from Bellows Falls. 1700 between 6:30 and 7:30 pm.  Its at times like these that I am very grateful I […]

Hands down my favorite time of year.  Waterfowl migration along the Connecticut River is awe-inspiring in the truest sense of the word.  Today, March 20th, a cackling goose amongst about 5,000 Canada Geese was the best of 17 species of waterfowl, including gadwall (Hinsdale and Walpole), pintail (Hinsdale), and Am. Wigeon (Walpole).  I had the, […]

Its not often that one sees snow buntings in a tree!  Although they are a member of the super order Passeriformes (perching birds in English), they dont often perch, a consequence of living much of their lives in the largely treeless and thus perchless tundra.   A large flock (about 175 today) continues to feed […]

I had a heck of a time finding the flock of approximately 1,000 snow buntings in Walpole on January 7th when there was relatively little snow on the ground (http://beyondbirding.wordpress.com/2011/01/07/a-good-day-in-the-valley/), so one would think that with reduced numbers of birds hiding their whiteness in ever more snow, finding them would be an order of magnitude […]

Pat Stoodley snapped this photo of a gray phase screech owl in Marlborough.  The bird was observed from Church Street on January 26th, where it sat on a wire for six hours.  Pat was alerted to bird by an attending mob of blue jays. Screech owls, like all owls, are under-reported due to their secretive and nocturnal nature.  […]