My wife Tricia departed NH on Friday bound for Nashville, from where she will be plying her craft for the winter triciaroseburt.com. We planned to rendevous at Hawk Mountain, which is either 6 hours, 5 days, or a month south of NH depending on your mode of transport. Tricia chose the car and I chose the […]
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Hello all: Firstly, my apologies for being non-responsive for the last week. I left NH with the intention of updating this site via iPhone, but that was a non-starter. I then ordered an iPad, which arrives tomorrow (I am on a loaner laptop today). In the interim I have been posting to my Facebook page, […]
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Bear with me while I get technology sorted out. The website is still being tweaked, and will shortly include an interactive map and other features. I made it to Pack Monadnock today for the start of this migration of sorts. The clock and my vocabulary conspire against me to do justice to my feelings, but […]
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I have been operating a nocturnal flight call station from my house in Hancock for several years, recording nocturnal migrants each spring and fall as they pass over, sight unseen. If a sparrow flies over my house and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound? The answer is yes, if the […]
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If you have been to a hawkwatch in New England during mid-September you will have heard people talk knowingly about kettles. Perhaps the term was explained to you as the collective noun for a tight group of thermaling hawks, but that doesn’t tell you about the etymology of this strange phrase. I have heard the […]
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