While taking some shots today of common and black tern I managed to pull the band number off this common tern.  Stay tuned for more info.

Two trips to Star Island this spring, May 14th, and May 22, 2011.  Depart the dock (Rye Harbor Marina) at 8am on 22nd and return to dock 2pm or earlier depending on birds.  Cost $60pp May 14, 2011 (includes van transportation to and from the Harris Center in Hancock), and $40pp May 22nd.  Cost for […]

The recent warm southerly airflow and advancing cold fronts are two weeks too early for my liking, but beggars cant be choosers. Astounding numbers of hawks reported from the Monadnock Area on the April 26, 2011 reached my doorstep on the 27th. I was only a few hundred yards from my driveway very early in the […]

A high count today of eight birds in one field, the one and only Great Meadows in Charlestown, NH. Also a female which had been dead for quite some time — probably an early migrant that starved. If one considers that this species is in serious decline, then what must the numbers have been like […]

Rare geese are a great way to track migration. The pink-footed goose seen in NJ turned up in NH two weeks later. Additionally, four Greater White-fronted Geese (race unspecified) were seen March 11 60 miles to the southwest of the Pink-footed goose location.  Four Greater White-fronted Geese of the Greenland race were seen on March […]