The recent remarkable fallout of southern migrants on the back of the consistent wet southerlies still persisted on Thursday, but mixed with a large influx of more traditional cold weather October migrants, yielding a great day on Star with some unusual juxtapositions (summer tanager and worm-eating warbler while lapland longspur flies overhead). I will have […]
Continue Reading →Star Island Trips — October and November 2011
I am talking to several boat owners and I may be able to extend the season for Star Island trips, but the boat will be much lower capacity. If I can, I will be running these trips based on weather patterns and not tied to weekends (following frontal movements, radar events etc). Thus trips may […]
Continue Reading →Last Star Trip of 2011 this Friday September 30, 2011
Sue Reynolds is pulling her boat and so Friday is the last trip I am running this year. Please let me know asap as I need a minimum of ten to run. Cost is $45pp, departing dock at 8am and returning to dock at 2pm. Contact me at eric.masterson@myfairpoint.net for info.
Continue Reading →Want to see buffie’s – hop on a plane!
The best year I can remember for shorebirding in New Hampshire, from spring through fall, both inland and on the coast. The wealth is not confined to the US though. Check out the following shot from County Wexford Ireland, taken by Killian Mullarney. A new record high for Europe of buff-breasted sandpiper, a New World shorebird (breeds […]
Continue Reading →Great Day on Star — September 24, 2011
Fourteen birders joined me on Star Island yesterday (Saturday) off the coast of NH, for a great day of fall birding. Nothing rare, but great Star Island fall birding standards including three yellow-billed cuckoos and a yellow-breasted chat. A remarkably consistent and homogenous warbler assemblage on the island – almost all blackpolls (numbering about 100). The […]
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