Early days, but at the moment the weather is looking good for a trip to Jeffries for Alcids etc.  Leave 8am from Portsmouth, return 1pm.  Cost $75pp.  Let me know if you are interested.

Folks: Let me know if you are interested in going this weekend. Early days, but it might be 1-2 feet on Sunday, which is as flat as it gets this time of year. I wont hold anyone to it, just taking a sounding. $70pp for 6 to 8 hour trip. Heated cabin, chumming etc.  Possibilities […]

This little fellow was feeding along the roadside on October 30th in Chesham (where’s that I hear you say).  Chesham is just northwest of Dublin New Hampshire.  Its a savannah sparrow, Passerculus sandwichensis, but darker and with warmer brown tones than the nominate ssp mediogrisus.  It has especially dark streaking on the breast and noticeably […]

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!).