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Continue Reading →Sooty Tern, Rye Pond
This sooty tern was found dead on August 30 along the southern end of Rye Pond in Stoddard NH. It was lying in tire ruts leading up to a cabin on the southern edge of the pond. Bob Sturgess, the owner of the cabin, got word to Becky Smith, local artist and member of the Harris Center, who got […]
Continue Reading →Read my guest blog at Yankee Magazine
Folks may remember that I found a banded common tern on the CT river a few weeks ago. I got the information on the bird back from the USFWS and wrote a guest blog for Yankee Magazine. Read all about New England’s Avian Superhighway.
Continue Reading →CT River Valley Awesomeness Part II — May 24, 2011
Another great day along the river on May 24, 2011 with 4 dunlin, 7 semi-palmated plover, a short-billed dowitcher, and lots of least sandpiper (Don Clark reported 15 dunlin earlier in the day from Herrick’s Cove). Total of four black terns (Hinsdale, Herricks, Charlestown). In the last week, I have seen 14 species of shorebird along the […]
Continue Reading →Connecticut River Valley Awesomeness
I was en route to the area today (May 20, 2011) when I got a call from Ken Klapper on site at the Townsends Warbler spot on River Road. He had a white-rumped sandpiper with about 30 least sandpipers, 4 semi-palmated plovers, and a few greater yellowlegs. White-rumped sandpiper inland in New Hampshire is an […]
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