The flats on Powder Mill Pond continue to attract, and hold birds. Today, Wednesday September 9th, brought the 11th and 12th shorebird species of the season – American Golden-Plover and Pectoral Sandpiper. Just one more species to tie the 2011 tally. A cold front tonight augurs well for tomorrow. Totals today: Blue-winged Teal – 2 […]
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As luck would have it, rock worm have been having a field day with the Monadnock Paper Mill dam on the Contoocook River. This dam is responsible for creating Powder Mill Pond, which is a fine pond for birding under normal circumstances. But for the second fall in five years, the pond has been drained […]
Continue Reading →I flew to Nashville via Chicago on Friday. The plane overflew some of my favorite birding haunts along the Connecticut River, from Charlestown to Walpole. I had planned on taking a day next week to check them out. Waterfowl should be starting to move north very soon. St. Patricks Day is peak (apparently the venerable […]
Continue Reading →I was awoken on the morning of February 18th by a “kip kip kip” call note coming from the direction of the bird feeders. I instantly recognized it as the call note of Red Crossbill, a rare visitor to my backyard with only a couple of previous records in about 10 years. They are a […]
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My wife found the ovenbird lying dead on the ground last week beneath a shiny double-glazed window; a sad end unbefitting an epic life. Of the countless number that will meet a similar fate this year, I mourn not their passing, but the manner of it. Such a life deserves more than an anonymous and […]
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