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!).

I opted to wait until today (Sunday) to check lakes for scoters and struck out.  Friday would have been ideal, but I wanted to get some photos from canoe so I waited for the wind to die down. Inland flights are really a one-day wonder at this time of year.  Nevertheless, a few interesting species […]

I was standing on the Hinsdale railtrail scanning the river, kinda hoping for redhead or some other treat when I caught this guy in my scope.  It was 620 yards away (I will explain how I know further down), and I thought, hmmmm.  Shorebird for sure, calidris likely, dunlin perhaps.  But at 5 football fields […]