The following forecast is too much so I am going to cancel this weekend’s trip to Jeffries Ledge. .SAT…W TO NW WINDS INCREASING TO 25 TO 35 KT. SEAS 5 TO 8 FT BUILDING TO 7 TO 13 FT…HIGHEST SE. .SUN…N TO NW WINDS 20 TO 30 KT DIMINISHING TO VARIABLE 10 KT OR LESS LATE. SEAS SUBSIDING TO 3 TO 5 FT.

A passable picture of the Townsend’s Warbler.  Also present in the area, 20 snow bunts, 30 horned larks, a pipit, a winter wren, 2 each of cowbird and r w blackbird, and the blackpoll warbler continues (2 warbler day in mid November, and neither one a palm or yellow-rumped!).

I opted to wait until today (Sunday) to check lakes for scoters and struck out.  Friday would have been ideal, but I wanted to get some photos from canoe so I waited for the wind to die down. Inland flights are really a one-day wonder at this time of year.  Nevertheless, a few interesting species […]

I was standing on the Hinsdale railtrail scanning the river, kinda hoping for redhead or some other treat when I caught this guy in my scope.  It was 620 yards away (I will explain how I know further down), and I thought, hmmmm.  Shorebird for sure, calidris likely, dunlin perhaps.  But at 5 football fields […]

Chickering Farm, Westmoreland A large farm located on Route 63 in Westmoreland, just south of the intersection with Route 12, like most other farms along the Connecticut River, Chickering Farm is planted with corn during summer. Because of its size its a good birding location most of the year, the exception being summer when its […]