tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85422192956698772152024-02-18T20:58:57.489-05:00Surner BirdingSurner Birdinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16176215519070528706noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542219295669877215.post-11011577781021025372023-03-22T22:34:00.002-04:002023-03-22T22:34:56.197-04:00<p> </p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Greetings,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A Eurasian Wigeon was
recently found by Mary Mckintrick at Great Pond in Hatfield. In Eastern Mass, it
seems like Eurasian Wigeons show up every year, but here in the Valley, they
are hard to come by. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In fact, this is
only the second one I’ve seen in Hampshire County, and coincidently, the first
sighting was also at Great Pond in Hatfield, in April 2007. There was also a
nice variety of waterfowl to go along with the Eurasian Wigeon, about a dozen
American Wigeon, Wood Ducks, Mallards, American Black Ducks, Green-winged Teal,
Northern Pintails, Ring-necked Ducks, Hooded & Common Mergansers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Fox Sparrows, one of my
favorite Sparrows just started to make their way into western Mass in the last
few days. I had a high count of seven at the feeder a couple of days ago. With
the southerly winds and warm temps, I expect more March migrants in the next
few days.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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It seems appropriate to resurrect a dead blog in the
month that hosts Halloween! <o:p></o:p></div>
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A couple of weeks ago Valerie had a conference in Fort
Collins, Colorado so we decided to take advantage of the location and turn it
into a vacation. We hit a few reservoirs in the Fort Collins area before
heading up to the Hereford Ranch in Wyoming. The Timnath Reservoir by far had
the most activity. Highlights-Hundreds of Canada Geese, 5 Redheads, 330 Western
Grebes, 6 Clark’s Grebes, 40 Bairds Sandpipers, 8 Franklin’s Gulls, 1000+
Double-crested Cormorants, 5 Say’s Phoebes and a Sage Thrasher. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Our next stop was to the Hereford Ranch in Wyoming. I
birded the area with fellow Western Mass birder Geoff LeBaron the day before.
Geoff was also out in Colorado while his wife was attending a conference in the
Denver area. With all the thickets, trees and water around the ranch buildings it’s
a prefect migrant oasis in the middle of the farmlands. Some of the highlights-
4 Western Wood-Pewee, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Green-tailed Towhee, Orange-cr
Warbler, MacGillivray’s Warbler, 2 Townsend’s Warblers and an Olive-sided
Flycatcher. From the ranch we traveled some of the local back roads around the
area. We encountered a couple dozen Vesper Sparrows and a Lark Bunting!<o:p></o:p></div>
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The next day we worked our way from Fort Collins up
through the mountains to Walden. On the way to Walden we encountered Steller’s
& Canada Jays, Gray-headed Junco, White-cr & Fox (Sooty) Sparrows.
After checking into our motel in Walden we drove out to the Coalmont area
looking for Sage Grouse, but not too surprising, we didn’t come away with any,
but clearly the highlight for the both of us was a Badger digging around on a
nearby hillside. This was a life mammal for the both of us!<o:p></o:p></div>
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The next morning, we headed out early from our motel in
Walden and headed over to the Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge-“The Auto Loop”.
This loop produced a ton of ducks, plus White Pelicans, Golden Eagle, Northern
Harrier, Merlin, Peregrine, Avocets, Bairds Sandpiper, Brewer’s Blackbirds,
Yellow-headed Blackbirds and a bunch of Vesper Sparrows.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After Walden we made our way to Rock Mt. National Park,
our final stop of the trip…. I paid a visit to the park in the mid 1990’s but
this was Valerie’s first visit. We happen to time our visit just right, it was
peak foliage time at the park. Now the foliage was nice, but certainly couldn’t
compare to New England’s Foliage, but then again, we don’t have the mountains
that Colorado does, so I guess things even out. We spent three days exploring RMNP
and encountered the usual suspects (Steller’s & Canada Jays, Mountain
Chickadee’s, Three-toed Woodpecker, Golden eagle, sage Thrasher etc) around the
park, but despite a decent evert we couldn’t locate a White-tailed Ptarmigan.
The other cool thing we happen to time was the Elk rutting season at the park. We
were afforded excellent views both in the park and in downtown Estes Park, and
of course the bugling of the males was a bonus. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We had an excellent week in Colorado and would not
hesitate to go back.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Western Grebe-Timnath Reservoir -Fort Collins area. </b><br />
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<b>Say's Phoebe</b><br />
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<b>Vesper Sparrow-Pawnee National Grasslands. </b><br />
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<b>Swainson's Hawk</b><br />
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<b>Olive-sided Flycatcher-Hereford Ranch</b><br />
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<b>Townsend's Warbler</b><br />
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<b>American Dipper</b><br />
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<b>Prairie Dog-Walden area</b><br />
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<b>Golden Eagle</b><br />
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<b>Red-tailed Hawk (Western)</b><br />
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<b>Black-billed Magpie</b><br />
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<b>Yellow-bellied Marmot-RMNP</b><br />
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<b>RMNP</b><br />
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<b>RMNP</b><br />
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RMNP<br />
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<b>RMNP</b><br />
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<b>RMNP</b><br />
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<b>Sage Thrasher- surprised to see this guy at the top of Rocky Mt. N.P</b><br />
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<b>Bear-This guy cross right in front of us on the main road into the park!</b><br />
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<b>Elk-male sounding off.</b><br />
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<b>Elk-grazing on Estes Park Golf Course....Grounds keeper must love this?</b><br />
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<br />Surner Birdinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16176215519070528706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542219295669877215.post-89682423316853693022016-03-20T22:24:00.001-04:002016-03-20T22:25:15.049-04:00Yellow-billed Loon<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
On Sunday March 6<sup>th</sup>, James Smith, Brian Kane
and I made a trip to Race Point in Provincetown in search of Massachusetts
first <b>Yellow-billed Loon!</b> The YB
Loon was found a week earlier by the sharp eyes of Steve Arena. We departed
Belchertown at 5AM and made it to the Race Point parking lot by about 9AM and
then started the 1.9 mile march down the beach in the soft sand. We also made
out like bandits with the weather this day, light winds and temps in the low forty’s,
about an hour later we were on the Yellow-billed Loon!! As it would turn out,
the Yellow-billed Loon was only part of the prize that day; the other part was
the incredible amount of loons that were at the point. Without a doubt, it was the
best viewing of winter plumage Common, Red-throated and even Pacific Loons that
I had ever encountered! Very rough figures on the number of loons at the point
that day, Common 70-100, Red-throated
150-200 and 3 Pacific. We just worked
over the loons for the next several hours, along with the flotilla of loons;
there were few hundred Razorbills, a handful Thick-billed and Common Murres,
Iceland Gulls and the normal sea ducks one would encounter in late winter. It
was a great outing with great company, the drive home just flew by……photos
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><br />Pacific Loon- one of three out on the point. Although rare in New England, in recent years Pacific Loons have been regular at Race Point.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Pacific Loon-Certainly not a great shot, but shows the thin chin strap, sharp demarcation line along the neck.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><br />closer to home.....Fox Sparrow (Red) at the feeder,</b></td></tr>
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<o:p></o:p>Surner Birdinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16176215519070528706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542219295669877215.post-6869893583011371822016-03-01T23:25:00.000-05:002016-03-01T23:25:04.863-05:00Barrow's Goldeneye-Turners Falls<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Birded along the
Connecticut River from Hadley to Turners Falls last Saturday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Large flocks of Canada Geese were encountered
in Hadley, Amherst and Deerfield with one lone Snow Goose in Hadley and at the
Umass Campus Pond. Turners Falls had the most diversity with American Wigeon,
Ring-necked Ducks, Common Goldeneye and a nice “Crisp” male Barrow’s Goldeneye at
the Turners Falls Rod & Gun Club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now that March is here, waterfowl migration is going to be kicking into
high gear. Other early arrivals have included Red-winged Blackbirds, Common
Grackles and Brown headed Cowbirds and a surprisingly large number of American
Woodcock! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Barrow's Goldeneye-Turners Falls Rod & Gun Club. </b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Common Goldeneye- Several seen from the Power Canal to Rod & Gun Club in Turners Falls.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Common Merganser- Numbers starting to build.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red-tailed Hawk-Honey Pot</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White-tailed Deer-Aqua Vitae Rd, Hadley</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Coyote- This guy put up eight hundred Canada Geese in Hadley, including the one Snow Goose which ended up at the Umass Campus Pond later on.</b></td></tr>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Surner Birdinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16176215519070528706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542219295669877215.post-89477034997156072942016-02-28T22:51:00.000-05:002016-02-28T22:51:28.584-05:00So.New Hampshire/Cape Ann<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Greetings……Well to say it’s been a while since my last
post…. would be a mild understatement. So I thought I’d give it a go again.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The first trip of the spring season for the Hitchcock
Center Birding class got off to a robust start last weekend. February trips to
the coast are problematic to begin with, mainly because of the weather! Last year’s
trip was cold and had seven foot snow banks. This year’s trip was met with 58 degree
weather and zero snow. The first part of
the day was birding rte. 1A in Southern New Hampshire; we made our way north
from Hampton Beach and ending up at New Castle. Our first stop was at the Fish Pier
just south of Hampton Beach State Park. This location has hosted an Adult
Glaucous Gull for the past couple of years and we were not disappointed this
day. We pulled into the parking area and our target bird was in the parking lot
with about 30 Herring Gulls. After viewing the gull and common waterfowl in the
Harbor, we headed just up the road to Hampton Beach State Park. We pulled into
the parking lot and almost immediately had two Snowy Owls…one in the dune and
the other landed on the parking lot guard rail. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed
these visitors from the north.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">From there we hit many pull offs along Rte.1A, observing
all three species of Scoters, Long-tailed Ducks, Common Goldeneyes, Common
Eiders, Red-necked Grebes, another Snowy Owl and 20 Purple Sandpipers in Rye.
We ended up in New Castle on a tip from Steve Mirick….Steve and Jane came upon
a Gray Seal pup! This youngster was lying out in the sand soaking up the sun
and looked to be in good shape. It was thought the pup was about 3-4 weeks old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">From New Castle we headed to Plum Island. We arrived midafternoon
and stayed until 5pm taking in a pretty good Short-eared Owl show at the North
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at the Marriott in Amesbury. We departed around 8:00AM and headed for our first
stop in Ipswich….Red-headed Woodpecker! It didn’t take too long to locate the Red-headed
Woodpecker on Town Farm Rd. We had excellent scope views of the Imm Woodpecker
and from there we headed to Gloucester. Our next stop was to the State Fish
Pier – Here we had the continuing Thick-billed Murres and a nice assortment of
Waterfowl. After the State Fish Pier we hit the normal stops around Cape Ann…Eastern
Point, Niles Pond, Bass Rocks, Loblolly Cove, Andrew’s Point and last Halibut
Point State Park. Highlights included, 3 King Eiders, Redheads, Razorbills and
lots of Harlequin Ducks. We ended the trip with 54 species, all participants
had a great weekend, some had life birds and as mentioned earlier the weather
was simply outstanding. Photos below….</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Snowy Owl- Hampton Beach State Park</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Snowy Owl #2</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lesser Black-backed Gull- </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Purple Sandpiper-Rye NH</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gray Seal-New Castle, NH</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Northern Harrier- one of 6 Birds. Plum Island</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Short-eared Owl-not the best photo...but it does the job.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Short-eared Owl-Plum Island</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red-headed Woodpecker-Town Farm Rd-Ipswich</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thick-billed Murres</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eye of Great Black-backed Gull</td></tr>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Surner Birdinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16176215519070528706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542219295669877215.post-52628968396683589812015-07-26T09:26:00.000-04:002015-07-26T09:26:55.425-04:00P'Town Pelagic July 18, 2105<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It’s been a while since my last post, so I thought I’d
take advantage of this rainy Sunday morning to do so. A week ago (July 18<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>)
I had the pleasure of taking a five hour mini pelagic trip out of Provincetown
(MA) to cash in of the ever growing number of shearwaters off Provincetown and
out on Stellwagen Bank. This trip was organized by Blair Nikula. Blair was been
doing these six person trips out of Chatham for a few years now, but the boat
he normally uses has been out of commission because of ongoing repairs. So
Blair contacted the captain of the Beth Ann, dock in Provincetown, to see
if he would be interested? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As it turned
out this would be his first charter for pursuing only birds, normally its fishing
charters and an occasional Whale Watch.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I met Blair at the Beach Forest parking lot along with
Sue Finnegan, Judith Davis and her son; from there we carpooled to a nearby
parking lot and met up with our last participant …Steve Arena. Blair hit Race
Point for a few minutes before meeting us at the Beach Forest and reported lots
of Cory’s Shearwaters in the Surf!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
good Omen indeed…..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We boarded the boat around seven and headed out…..the
weather was overcast with intermittent rain, and had 2-3 ft swells. Certainly
not the greatest day, but as we got around Race Point we really wouldn't worry
about the weather again. Well, let’s just cut to the chase …….”Thousands of Shearwaters
Everywhere” We first encountered Cory’s Shearwaters fairly close to the shore
and has we moved out a little farther we started to come across Great, Sooty
and finally a few Manx’s Shearwaters. The Bird of the day however was not any of the Shearwaters, but a Fea's Petrel!! Perhaps a 2nd state record. It turned out to be a very exciting 10-15 sec. Below are Blair’s
best estimates from his ebird report were as follows…..The shear number of birds out there was simply <strong>AMAZING!</strong></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3000<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 6;">
<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Great Shearwater<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0.05in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">^ Largest numbers over the northern portion
of our route; many in heavy wing molt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 0.25in;" valign="top">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 6; text-align: right;">
<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">500<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 6;">
<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sooty Shearwater<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0.05in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">^<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 6; text-align: right;">
<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 0in;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 6;">
<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Manx Shearwater<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0.05in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">^ continue to be scarce.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 6; text-align: right;">
<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">400<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 0in;" valign="top">
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wilson's
Storm-Petrel<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0.05in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">^ widely scattered through the area covered,
with no concentrations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 6; text-align: right;">
<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 0in;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 6;">
<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Leach's Storm-Petrel<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0.05in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">^ over the SE corner of Stellwagen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 6; text-align: right;">
<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">9<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 0in;" valign="top">
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Northern Gannet<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0.05in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2 ad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 7;">
<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Age & Sex<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<tbody>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 0.05in 6pt 2.4pt;" valign="bottom"></td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 0.05in 6pt 2.4pt;" valign="bottom">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Juvenile<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 0.05in 6pt 2.4pt;" valign="bottom">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Immature<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 0.05in 6pt 2.4pt;" valign="bottom">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Adult<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 0.05in 6pt 2.4pt;" valign="bottom">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Age Unknown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 0.05in 6pt 2.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Male<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 0.05in 6pt 2.4pt;" valign="top"></td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 0.05in 6pt 2.4pt;" valign="top"></td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 0.05in 6pt 2.4pt;" valign="top"></td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 0.05in 6pt 2.4pt;" valign="top"></td>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 0.05in 6pt 2.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Female<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 0.05in 6pt 2.4pt;" valign="top"></td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 0.05in 6pt 2.4pt;" valign="top"></td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 0.05in 6pt 2.4pt;" valign="top"></td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 0.05in 6pt 2.4pt;" valign="top"></td>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 0.05in 6pt 2.4pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sex Unknown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 0.05in 6pt 2.4pt;" valign="top"></td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 0.05in 6pt 2.4pt;" valign="top">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: right;">
<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 0.05in 6pt 2.4pt;" valign="top">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: right;">
<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 0.05in 6pt 2.4pt;" valign="top"></td>
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</tbody></table>
</td>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 0.25in;" valign="top">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 6; text-align: right;">
<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 0in;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 6;">
<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pomarine Jaeger<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0.05in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">^ all apparent 1cy (based upon photo review)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 0.25in;" valign="top">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 6; text-align: right;">
<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 0in;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 6;">
<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">jaeger sp.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0.05in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">^ probable POJA (surprisingly, no PAJA seen)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 0.25in;" valign="top">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 6; text-align: right;">
<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 0in;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 6;">
<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Black-legged
Kittiwake<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0.05in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">all 1cy, transitioning into 2nd basic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #DDDDDD .75pt; padding: 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 0.25in;" valign="top">
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 130%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 6; text-align: right;">
<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bonaparte's Gull<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">inshore off Provincetown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">50<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Laughing Gull<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">all inshore along backside (additional birds
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">400<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Herring Gull<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">most over the SE corner of Stellwagen
(hundreds more gulls roosting on the outer beach not included in this total)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">100<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Great Black-backed
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">most over SE corner of Stellwagen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">15<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Common Tern<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">all inshore off P'town (many more between
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Around 8:30AM things really started to get interesting…..While
scanning through the Cory’s Shearwaters I spotted another bird just above them
circling back…..after processing this for about 3 seconds I screamed out “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">GET ON THIS BIRD</b>” I had just come
across a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pterodroma Petrel!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was my first Pterodroma Petrel, I knew
it wasn’t a Black-capped Petrel, and quickly thought it might be a Fea’s, but
once I knew the others were on the bird I just grabbed my camera and started
shooting, this all happened within 10-15 sec. As it turned out, we did have a
Fea’s Petrel…perhaps a 2<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">nd</span></sup> state record! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It just seems<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the marginal
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heading out </td></tr>
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black-legged Kittiwake </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Cory's Shearwater-one of thousands!</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Cory's Shearwater up close</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Fea's Petrel....the Star of the show.</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Fea's</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Fea's Petrel- showing dark underwing.</strong></td></tr>
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Another spring has come to an end, and with that, the Hitchcock
Center Spring Birding Class has come to a successful end. Our last trip of the
spring season was spent up in Northern Vermont & New Hampshire. We left the Hitchcock Center at 6AM (Friday
June 12<sup>th</sup>) and headed up Rte
91 to our first stop…The P&H Truck Stop in Wells River, VT. This Restaurant
(Truck Stop) has become a class favorite over the past couple of years, and
hasn’t disappointed us yet. From there we headed north to MOOSE BOG. This area
is one of the more reliable locations for finding Spruce Grouse; unfortunately
this was not the case this day. However, we managed nice views of Black-backed
Woodpecker, Black-burnian Warbler, Ring-necked Duck and three singing Rusty
Blackbirds.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We departed Moose Bog in mid-afternoon and headed to
Colebrook, NH. Colebrook would be our home base for the next two days. We had a nice dinner that evening, but would
not look for Moose this evening because of the heavy rains that were rolling
through the region that night. The next morning we were up early and headed
north the Pittsburg, NH. During the twenty-five minute trip up to Pittsburg, we
could see the effect the heavy rains had on the region…..streams, and the water
fall on Rte 145 was spectacular. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Our first road we birded was East Inlet. This has always
been a productive road over the years. We had several Gray Jays, Boreal
Chickadees, Yellow-bellied Flycatchers, and several species of warblers
including Bay-breasted, Northern Parula, Canada, Black-thr.Green, along with
Winter Wrens, Ruby-cr.Kinglets and
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That evening after dinner we headed up to Moose Ally (Rte
3) in hopes of locating a Large brown mammal. This would be a life mammal for a
number of the group…I’m happy to report Moose Ally didn’t let us down….one
young Bull Moose put on a nice show for all.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Our last day was spent birding Day Road in Pittsburg.
Certainly more of the same cast of characters, but a few new species for the trip….Olive-sided
Flycatcher, Mourning Warbler, more Gray Jays and Boreal Chickadees. We logged 674 miles during the trip, ended up
with 78 species and a handful of mammals. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Nice thing about this trip…everyone got great looks at
just about everything. Enjoy the photos<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Cliff Swallow- Moose Ally Ice Cream Stand. Cliff Swallows have been nesting here for years, sadly a high count of 32 nests have dwindled down to only 2 nests now! The owners have been working with New Hampshire Audubon to try and bring back the colony -stay tuned. </b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moose-young male. Locals say the Moose population is starting to do better in recent years. However, a ways to go from the time 15 years ago when we had 17 in one evening!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Valerie and I recently
went on the road to Ohio and Michigan to seek out a Kirtland’s Warbler in
Grayling, Michigan and to witness the “Biggest Week in American Birding” at
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non-stop to Port Clinton, OH, we decided to spend the first night in Erie, PA. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Presque Isle State Park. This was a very nice and spacious park, and very
birdy. We were both astounded by the number of Yellow Warblers at this park! We
knew we had at least a few hundred and no doubt this figure was on the
conservative side. At about mid-day we headed west to Port Clinton, this would
be our base for the next few days. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The next morning we hit
the boardwalk at Magee Marsh. The organizers of this 10 day festival bill this “The
Biggest Week in American Birding” and they may be right. The amount of birders visiting Magee Marsh was very impressive.. The birding at the Marsh was fabulous with many birds at or near eye
level. We encountered 26 species of warblers at Magee, although we didn't get
anything to unusual in the warbler department, we had wonderful looks at everything.
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The birding possibilities
are not limited to Magee Marsh…..other areas we birded included Metzger Marsh,
Ottawa N.W.R., Oak Openings near Toledo as well as the many farm fields around
the region. The amount of planning that
goes on behind the scenes for the birding festival must be enormous, we were
both very impressed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">From Magee Marsh we drove
five hours north to Grayling, MI to hopefully encounter our main target bird
for the trip “Kirtland’s Warbler” Thanks to James Smith for some excellent directions
to an area he has birded several times…..we found a male Kirtland’s at about
7:55PM! .Certainly satisfied that we got our main bird, we were going back the
next morning for more prolonged looks and to see what else we could add to our
trip list. The area also held Clay-colored Sparrows, Vesper Sparrows, Nashville
Warblers etc. We also hit Hartwick State Park, not a lot to see in late morning,
but found Red-breasted Nuthatch and Evening Grosbeaks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">At about noontime we made
our way towards Lake Huron for Tawas City. Seems Tawas City was also holding a
3 day birding festival. Tawas ended up beaning one of our favorite areas of the
trip, and we’ll plan on at least two days in the area next time we go back. The
state park has a Lighthouse that hooks out into the lake hauling in migrants as
they head north. More of the same cast of characters as Magee Marsh, but even
better looks and we wouldn’t have thought that would have been possible. We
added our 28<sup>th</sup> specie of warbler for the trip (Orange-crowned) along
with a few shorebird species, Olive-sided Flycatcher and just 30 minutes up the
road was a late </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Snowy Owl. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Trumpeter Swan-Ottawa NWR. The refuge and adjacent areas now host somewhere around 20 active nests. These endangered birds are not countable by listing standards, but were very cool to see flying around and even better to know their introduced population is doing well. </b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Dunlin- Really good numbers and nice to see them acquiring breeding plumage. </b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b> This was kinda of strange! Herring Gulls building their nests in what appeared to be an abandon parking lot in downtown Port Clinton.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Blue Jays coming off lake Huron-Tawas</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>American Redstart</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Bay-breasted Warbler-Magee</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Blackburnian Warbler</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Scarlet Tanager-Magee</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>It was great to see Purple Martin colony's </b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Purple Martin</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>American Woodcock-Magee</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Yellow-rumped Warbler</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Killdeer</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Sandhill Crane-Ottawa</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Cape May Warbler</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Red-headed Woodpecker-Another bird that's become rare in New England, nice to see good numbers of them.</b></td></tr>
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Surner Birdinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16176215519070528706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542219295669877215.post-22815037133231679622015-02-22T22:08:00.001-05:002015-02-22T22:10:33.160-05:00Plum Island to Southern New HampshireThe first trip of the 2015 Spring Birding Class took place on Feb 7th and our destination was Salisbury, Plum Island and southern New Hampshire. Now the word "SPRING" is a real loose term at this moment. We were lucky to get the trip in with all the snow storms that have taken place this month. In fact, Its been years since I've seen this much snow on a birding trip to the coast...WOW!<br />
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The weather was cold, but very little wind made it a very pleasant day, even with a few light snow showers in the afternoon. We had really nice looks at the birds we encountered during the day..highlights included 3 Snowy Owls, 5 Bald Eagles, Purple Sandpipers, Thick-billed Murres, a number of waterfowl, (1) Horned Lark at the boat ramp and a very out of place Eastern Meadowlark.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Purple Sandpiper-Rye, N.H.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Snowy Owl-Rye, N.H. - on the bath house.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Thick-billed Murre- Certainly an unexpected surprise.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Closer to home....Eastern Screech-Owl in Hatfield. (Red Morph)</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>E.Screech-Owl</b></td></tr>
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Surner Birdinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16176215519070528706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542219295669877215.post-19875657654864477282015-01-27T18:06:00.003-05:002015-01-27T18:07:25.627-05:00South Shore-Outer Cape to home<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
A couple of weeks ago I joined up with Al Richards and a
few other members of the Hampshire Bird Club on a field trip to Boston and
areas along the South Shore. Our main target
bird was the Black-backed Woodpecker that has been hanging out at the Forest
Hills Cemetery. We arrived at 8:30AM and waited 60 minutes in 10 degree weather…..NO
WOODPECKER! We weren't the only
disappointed birders that day, but the woodpecker would make a comeback in the
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We then headed down to Weymouth for the King Eider that seems
to have settled in for the winter, and we located it within a few minutes. The
views were hardy killer, but good enough.
Five minutes from the King Eider was the next target bird…Lark
Sparrow. This bird has also been hanging
out for a while at Stoddard Park….The park was a very active dog walking
park. When we first arrived I didn’t
think we had much of a chance of locating this bird with all the activity, but
after ten minutes the group had found the bird. The Lark Sparrow was surprisingly accustom to
the foot and paw traffic at the park. We made one last stop in Marion for a Townsend's Solitaire, but we missed on the Solitaire, but got a Great Horned Owl calling at 3PM! From there I headed to Falmouth to visit family and do a
little birding the next day on the lower cape….photos below.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Hooded Mergansers...female Bufflehead in background.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>White-winged Scoter-Plymouth Harbor</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Iceland Gull- one of eight birds around the Provincetown area. Other gulls encountered at Pilgrim Lake- 2 Lesser Black-backed and Glaucous Gull</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Common Eider-Chatham Fish Pier.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Dunlin & Sanderling-1st encounter Beach-Eastham.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Red-breasted Merganser-young male. Chatham Fish Pier.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Black Scoters- We came across a flock of 300+ at Nauset Beach in Orleans.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Closer to home...Young Cooper's Hawk hanging around the feeder.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Northern Cardinal-female...aka Miss Piggy</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Savannah Sparrow-This was a brand new feeder bird for me, completely unexpected. I've had them on a couple of occasions in the yard in May, but a first in winter and at the feeding station. </b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Another unexpected species for January...Turkey Vulture - early arrival or hold over from the fall?</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Starling-Bill starting to turn yellow for the upcoming breeding season.</b></td></tr>
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Surner Birdinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16176215519070528706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542219295669877215.post-66180611847698698392015-01-11T20:33:00.002-05:002015-01-11T20:37:30.497-05:00Barnacle Geese to Rough-legged Hawk.<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Headed down to Agawam this morning to look for the Barnacle
Geese that were discovered a week ago. Given a heads up by Tom Gagnon the day
before that the Longmeadow side was completely frozen, I made my way along
River Road in Agawam. I arrived around 8:40AM and found a couple of birder’s
already on the geese. As it turned out, this ended up being a huge help that
the other birders were on the Barnacle’s, because they were tucked in and well
hidden amongst the 1900 Canada Geese. Barnacle Geese have certainly come a long
way in the past 20 years or so. Once they were automatically written off as escapees,
but now with a surge in their population, they are now more accepted as wild
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West Meadows. I read a report the day before on Western Mass birders (Facebook)
of a Dark Morph Rough-legged Hawk. It only took me about ten minutes to locate
this winter visitor from the north. I managed a few photos and also came across
a large flock of Horned Larks (250) and found (4) Lapland Lonspurs and (7) Snow
Buntings….all winter visitors to our region. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the chilly temps this morning…4 degrees!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Rough-legged Hawk</i></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Red-tailed Hawk.</i></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Common Merganser- Honey Pot</i></b></td></tr>
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Surner Birdinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16176215519070528706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542219295669877215.post-66892094298188723822014-12-31T18:23:00.002-05:002014-12-31T18:23:51.725-05:00Quabbin & Greenfield CBCI spent the last weekend of 2014 participating in two Christmas Bird counts. The first one was the Quabbin Count which was held on Saturday the 27th. This particular count I happen to be one of the compilers along with Jim Lafley. We had forty observers this year, the weather was simply outstanding for late December and every part of the reservoir was ice free. We tallied 69 species, two off the all time high, had 3 new high counts and one new species for the count.<br />
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The next day I team up with James Smith and Eric Huston for the Greenfield Christmas bird count. With Josh Rose out of state, James took over as area leader for our section in Turners Falls..<br />
Our area includes two major hot spots in the count circle- The Turners Falls Power Canal & Barton's Cove. The weather was no where near as inviting as Saturday's, but we managed 47 species (at least that was the count before I departed) Highlights.....Bufflehead, Merlin, Iceland Gull, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, (4) Hermit Thrush, (2) Winter Wren and a Ruby-crowned Kinglet.<br />
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Below is a complete list of the Quabbin CBC.<br />
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Happy New Year....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Carolina Wren-Greenfield CBC</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Common Goldeneye-Greenfield CBC</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Golden-crowned Kinglet at Barton's Cove</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>1st year-Iceland Gull-Barton's Cove</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Merlin-Power Canal</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Ruby-crowned Kinglet</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Canada Goose 54<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">American Wigeon 1 (2<sup>nd</sup>
Record)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">American Black Duck 108<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Mallard 44<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Bufflehead 1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Common Goldeneye 28<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Hooded Merganser 56<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Common Merganser 265<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Red-breasted Merganser 1
(3<sup>rd</sup> record)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Ruffed Grouse 17<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Wild Turkey 109<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Common Loon 28 (New High)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Horned Grebe 39<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Red-necked Grebe 1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Bald Eagle 21<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sharp-shinned Hawk 3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Cooper’s Hawk 1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Northern Goshawk 3 (all on
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Red-shouldered Hawk 1 (3<sup>rd</sup>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Red-tailed Hawk 32<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Ring-billed Gull 109<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Herring Gull 8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Rock Pigeon 48<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Mourning Dove 121<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Eastern Screech-Owl 4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Great Horned Owl 15<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Barred Owl 7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Northern Saw-whet Owl 19<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Belted Kingfisher 3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Red-bellied Woodpecker 33<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Downy Woodpecker 112<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Hairy Woodpecker 35<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Northern Flicker 6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Pileated Woodpecker 29<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Blue Jay 413<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">American Crow 189<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Common Raven 24<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Horned Lark 20<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Black-capped Chickadee 713<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Tufted Titmouse 212<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Red-breasted Nuthatch 38<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">White-breasted Nuthatch
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Carolina Wren 9<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Winter Wren 5 (New high)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Golden-crowned Kinglet 21<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Eastern Bluebird 88 (New
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Hermit Thrush 1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">American Robin 134<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Gray Catbird 1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Northern Mockingbird 8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">European Starling 372<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Swamp Sparrow 3 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">White-throated Sparrow 27<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">White-crowned Sparrow 1
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Dark-eyed Junco 354<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Red-winged Blackbird 5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Common Grackle 1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Brown-headed Cowbird 2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Purple Finch 4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">House Finch 19<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Red Crossbill 1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Common Redpoll 5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Pine Siskin 43<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">American Goldfinch 283<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">House Sparrow 590<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">69 Species<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">River Otter 3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Coyote 2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Red Squirrel 17<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Gray Squirrel 20<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Beaver 1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Surner Birdinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16176215519070528706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542219295669877215.post-17968232907119923492014-12-21T08:26:00.001-05:002014-12-21T08:26:10.930-05:00Ross's Goose-Barton's CoveClearly a rarity anywhere in New England...this Ross's Goose was found early this morning (12-20-14) at Barton's Cove in Turner's Falls. The Barton's Cove area remains of the best locations in the Valley to consistently produce uncommon and rare birds at anytime of the year.<br />
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Also just finished up (12-14-14) a very successful Northampton C.B.C. (Area #8-Honey Pot Region) with James Smith and Brian Kane. We tallied 51 Species with the highlight being a Long-eared Owl that James picked out in the heavy tangles in the Honey Pot. Other highlights included a Peregrine Falcon, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Hermit Thrush, Northern Saw-whet Owl and a handful of Snow Buntings.<br />
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Next up the Quabbin Christmas Count......weather looks good so far!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Ross's Goose (left) along with Imm. Snow Goose. Barton's Cove, Gill, Mass side.</i></b></td></tr>
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Spent the last couple of days birding the West & East Meadows of Northampton. My goal was to try and track down the elusive Nelsen's Sparrow....at least elusive to me. This particular bird was hanging out hanging out at an area known as the Ibis Pool. I figured I might have one last day before the next weather front came through and possibly moving this bird on. Surprisingly or amazingly, it only took me 15 minutes to relocated the bird. <br />
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The entire area around the Ibis pool was just busting with sparrows. The most common were Song, Savannah and Swamp, mixed in were a few Lincoln's, White-crowned, White-throated and a Field Sparrow. Also present was a nice flock of Pine Siskins and a couple Red-shouldered Hawks.<br />
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In the East Meadows the main highlight was the number of American Pipits. I had a couple groups that totaled over 160!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Nelsen's Sparrow-The Drought is over! This is my first Nelsen's Sparrow in the state. It's only taken 35+ years.<br />This bird hung in for almost a week at the Ibis Pool in the West Meadows. (Northampton)</b></td></tr>
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<br />Surner Birdinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16176215519070528706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542219295669877215.post-13871789558027033982014-10-12T22:02:00.000-04:002014-10-12T22:02:03.714-04:00Acadia to Monhegan Island<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Valerie and I spent a week in mid-September vacationing in Maine. We visited Acadia National Park for the first three days of our trip, and the remaining days were spent on Monhegan Island. The weather was fantastic for the entire week, in fact we got a early taste of October like temps on Thursday morning when the temperature got down into the mid thirties. The birding was pretty slow up around Acadia, but we were there primarily to take in the awesome sights of Acadia. Monhegan was a different story....birding was the main objective. We ended our stay with about 85 species, but I must confess I was a little disappointed with the number of birds. We had a lot of ones and two's of this, and a few threes and four's of that.... no huge numbers of Warblers, Vireo's, Sparrows or even raptors. However, it's still Monhegan and it remains one of my favorite places to bird in New England.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Blue-winged Teal- Ice Pond.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Sunset at Trailing Yew</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Spotted Sandpiper-Lobster Cove</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Monhegan Island celebrated 400 years this past July.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Valerie at Blackhead</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Our first Rainbows on the Island</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Prairie Warbler-one of two...put on a great show.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b> One of the highlights of the trip were the dozens and dozens of Monarch Butterfly's migrating through Monhegan.<br />Certainly not the numbers I used to encounter, but it's a nice start considering the really low numbers back home.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Warbling Vireo</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Philadelphia Vireo</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Certainly a great addition to the late afternoon activities. </b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Red-eyed Vireo- Surprisingly, very few for mid-September.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Rusty Blackbird-Ice Pond</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Imm Red-headed Woodpecker. I've only had a few of these guys over the years.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Thankfully just a Pirate Flag...No Pirates!</b></td></tr>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">About a week ago we had the folks from the Neighborhood
Nest Watch Program stop by for their now annual visit to survey our yard. This
year the banding team consisted of Evangeline Shank & Thom Bullock. They
were pretty successful this year; of the seven sought after neighborhood nest watch
species, they captured five- Northern Mockingbird, Carolina Wren, House Wren,
Song Sparrow and Gray Catbird, only dipping on Black-capped Chickadee and
American Robin. They also captured Chipping Sparrow, House Sparrows and a
couple of Downy Woodpeckers. Below is a little more info on the Nest Watch Program...courtesy of Steph Clymer from the Facebook page. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Uncovering The Mysteries of Backyard Bird Populations<br />
The Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center's Neighborhood Nestwatch offers the opportunity for citizens to actively engage in scientific research while learning about bird biology in their backyard. Participants in this citizen science project enjoy a visit each year from scientists who band common birds in their backyard and search for nests. The participants then monitor the year-to-year survival and nesting success of these <span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show">birds. We visit urban, suburban, and rural yards in western Massachusetts from Springfield to Greenfield. Neighborhood Nestwatch Springfield is part of a network of cities that includes Washington, DC, Pittsburgh, PA, Atlanta, GA and Gainesville, FL. Thanks to the work of our participants and together with the US Forest Service, we are discovering some of the constraints and opportunities for backyard bird populations, and are informing management and policy initiatives that support urban wildlife and responsible residential development.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>House Wren-1 of 3 banded this day.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>House Wren Nest</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Northern Mockingbird Nest</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Northern Mockingbird-female</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Juv- Song Sparrow</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Downy Woodpecker-Juv</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Chipping Sparrow</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Eastern Phoebe-currently working on her 2nd clutch</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Red-bellied Woodpecker-Juv</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Baltimore Oriole- loving the jelly and nesting in the yard this year.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gray Catbird-also a fan of the jelly & breeds in the yard.</td></tr>
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Surner Birdinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16176215519070528706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542219295669877215.post-10823646016600098102014-06-23T22:32:00.001-04:002014-06-23T22:32:36.872-04:00Newport & Moose Bog- Vermont<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We ended up the spring
2014 Hitchcock Center spring Birding class on a high note with a visit to the
Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. This is
the second year we have ventured north towards the Canadian border in search of
the elusive Boreal Grand slam ……Boreal Chickadee, Black-backed Woodpecker, Gray
Jay and the really elusive Spruce Grouse! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">As mentioned this is the
second year in a row we have birded the Northeast Kingdom, last year’s trip was
met with marginal weather and only distant views of a family of Gray Jays. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">This year’s trip was the
complete opposite, unbelievably great weather and three out of the four Grand
Slam Boreal Birds! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">This year we birded a new
area just north of Newport – “Eagle Point Wildlife Management Area”. This area
consists of open fields and marshes. We didn’t get there until around 10:30am,
but we still had a nice assortment of species…Great Blue Heron, Ring-necked
Pheasant, Osprey, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Least Flycatcher, Great-crested
Flycatcher, Belted Kingfisher, Warbling Vireo, Veery, an assortment of Warblers, Bobolinks,
Eastern Meadowlark and Savannah Sparrow. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The next day we spent the
entire morning at Moose Bog. Moose Bog is located east of Island Pond on Rte
105, this Bog is one of the most consistent areas for encountering Spruce
Grouse, Black-backed Woodpecker, Boreal Chickadee and Gray Jays. This area as well as others in the region can
also produce a large number of biting insects like Mosquitos, black flies and
Deer Flies. As it turned out this year, the insects were not that bad! Why, I
have no idea, but it </span>wasn't<span style="font-size: small;"> that bad. As I indicated before, we had a fair
amount of success with the Boreal birds this day…we first heard the Boreal
Chickadee along the Moose bog trail, then encountered two very cooperative Gray
Jays and then really lucked out with an extended sighting of a male
Black-backed Woodpecker working on a Spruce tree just ten feet off the
trail. However, the elusive Spruce
Grouse did not make an appearance this day, but we will try again. We ended our trip with seventy-seven species and a few mammals....but no Moose. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Cedar Waxwing</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Ruby-throated Hummingbird- Moose Bog</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Gray Jay- Moose Bog</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Nashville Warbler</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Black-backed Woodpecker-Moose Bog</b></td></tr>
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Surner Birdinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16176215519070528706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542219295669877215.post-60875917219458796442014-06-08T22:26:00.001-04:002014-06-08T22:26:07.421-04:00It ended up being a pretty good spring migration around these parts. Recently I've been looking for Grasshopper Sparrows at the Old Amherst Landfill. Last year I had three singing males, so far this year -nothing! There's a good number of Bobolinks, Red-winged Blackbirds, along with a number of other species breeding along the edge of the fields. More photos to come from an April trip to Colorado.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red-winged Blackbird-Old Amherst Landfill</td></tr>
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Bobolink- I counted 17 the other day at the Old Landfill </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cooper's Hawk- a successful early morning raid near the Old Landfill. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bobolink-female. The first few visits to the landfill yielded very few females, but the last couple of visits they have become much more conspicuous. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Box Turtle- found near our home a couple of weeks ago.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Solitary Sandpiper- This one I photographed in Hadley...overall a good spring migration for these guys.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Black & White Warbler.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This Ruffed Grouse was certainly a friendly soul along the rail trail in Amherst. The Grouse greeted everybody and everything for several weeks in April & May.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orchard Oriole- several reports this spring.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A closer look at the Rail Trail Grouse</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This female Hooded Merganser seems to have her hands full- Pond near Old Amherst Landfill.</td></tr>
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Surner Birdinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16176215519070528706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542219295669877215.post-54114084125988294472014-03-23T23:35:00.001-04:002014-03-23T23:35:59.345-04:00Pink-footed Goose<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s the almost the end of March and the Geese are on
the move! During the past few days large numbers of Canada Geese have been increasing
at a high rate here in Hampshire County. With the large concentrations of
Canada’s, comes the hope that something else will tag along for the ride north.
Well at around 3 o’clock this afternoon things got going….Larry Therrien
located a Pink-footed Goose at the Old Pilgrim Airport in Hatfield. This is the
2<sup>nd</sup> time this species has shown up here in Western Mass and perhaps
not the last. In recent years the Pink-footed Goose population has increased
tremendously and we are slowly starting to see an increase in sightings over
the last 10 years in the northeast. But for now, it’s still a really, really good
bird here in the state and it’s always nice to have one close to home. Also
present was a a nice flock of Snow Geese, eight of which were the Blue Morph. Photos
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<br />Surner Birdinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16176215519070528706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542219295669877215.post-72016871937856973602014-03-21T22:25:00.000-04:002014-03-21T22:25:03.794-04:00A few photos.......<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><br /><br />A few digital shots from this winter....and it has been a long winter!!!<br />Enjoy<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJwU-kewT4h2wAOb00D7T_tPWNYuoUCJyMajwAHCNuJREEkDOxZlwwgKMjEMh85ZLNpYkIE47pRbVouvUEBtodDtHRwl9M9zJvp0VeELxFbgbZGfCgiBxG5jWp5q6yztFfX7T8ZUz_lEGo/s1600/Townsend's+Warbler-Amherst,+MA+found+&+photographed+by+Barry+Brooks+(6).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJwU-kewT4h2wAOb00D7T_tPWNYuoUCJyMajwAHCNuJREEkDOxZlwwgKMjEMh85ZLNpYkIE47pRbVouvUEBtodDtHRwl9M9zJvp0VeELxFbgbZGfCgiBxG5jWp5q6yztFfX7T8ZUz_lEGo/s1600/Townsend's+Warbler-Amherst,+MA+found+&+photographed+by+Barry+Brooks+(6).jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>This little gem just was found and photographed by Barry Brooks in Amherst last November (2013) It hung around for only 10 minutes, but most likely is Western Massachusetts first Townsend's Warbler.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Always a good bird in Hampshire county -especially on the Connecticut River in Hadley. </b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Considering how tough this winter has been.....a couple of hardy American Kestrels managed to make it through the winter in Hadley.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Perhaps overshadowed a little by the Big Snowy Owl invasion into eastern North American this winter. This was one of four Short-eared Owls that called the Honey Pot home this winter. Here in Western Mass we basically had one Snowy Owl put on a great show for almost two weeks in Deerfield, but the Short-eared Owls in the Honey Pot just about put on a show every night during the winter. </b></td></tr>
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If you haven't heard yet this year....there's a Snowy Owl invasion going on in eastern North American this winter. Actually a HUGE invasion not recorded in I don't know how long? It began in November and the show still continues, especially along the coast. Here in Western Mass we did not have anywhere near the numbers that coastal locations did, but we had one bird that put on a amazing show in Deerfield. This bird was found by Tom Gagnon & Al Richards while birding their area on the Greenfield Christmas Bird Count. It was relocated a couple of days later and stayed around for at least another two weeks. You can go several years in Western Mass without encountering a Snowy Owl....so this was great!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>One of 9 Snowy Owls I had on a day trip to Salisbury/Plum Island in early Feb/2014</b></td></tr>
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Certainly been a while since my last post. (Been a long winter) I took part in two Christmas counts this past December, Northampton and Quabbin. Both count days had decent weather, but the Northampton count had more unusual birds this time around. Below is a few pictorial highlights from both counts.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>American Robin- record numbers on the Quabbin Count and I guess the same for other Christmas counts in the region.</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Savannah Sparrow- Always a species we are somewhat responsible for on the Northampton Count. Although in recent years it has started to show up in other areas in the count circle.</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Chipping Sparrow- Currently hanging out at my feeding station. Not a bad bird for this time of year.....but come mid April, it returns in big numbers to our region.</strong></td></tr>
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<strong>Common Merganser- always present along the Connecticut in winter.</strong> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Ring-necked Duck- Only one on the count this year!</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Golden-crowned Kinglet- a uncommon bird in our area.</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lapland Longspur- one of five in the Honey Pot area.</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Snow Bunting-</strong><br />
<strong>honey Pot</strong><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Am.Tree Sparrow- This was a fun moment watching this bird bathing in a shallow area on the Connecticut River.</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Although James Smith and I heard one during the count, this bird was photographed in Tom Gagnon's area the next day.</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Quabbin Count- The Quabbin count was held under ideal weather conditions. The above photo is a Beaver Pond near fishing area 43.</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>My brave group near the Dana Spruces in Quabbin.</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Fishing Area 43/Horse Shoe Dam</strong><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>This year we had five Eagles in view at once at the Horse Shoe Dam area. Overall we fell one short of tying the record of 38.</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Black-capped Chickadee-Hardwick</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Eastern Bluebird-female/<br />Hardwick</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Clearly an ongoing project for a over achieving Beaver!</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Northern Cardinal-</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Perhaps the cutest photo of the day was this cat at the Robinson Farm in Hardwick.</strong></td></tr>
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<br />Surner Birdinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16176215519070528706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542219295669877215.post-81758321393639209222013-11-23T14:29:00.002-05:002013-11-23T14:29:34.773-05:00HBC-Cape Cod Weekend<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Ten members
of the Hampshire bird Club made a weekend trip to Cape Cod a couple of weeks
ago. Overall the weekend weather was pretty good, but certainly a bit on the windy
side. We headed out early Saturday morning for Race Point in Provincetown,
hoping to cash in on a few pelagic birds. The biggest obstacle we encountered
was the WIND….but we managed to find a couple lingering Great Shearwaters , 3-4
Parasitic Jaegers, lots of Bonaparte’s Gulls, Gannets, Scoters, Common Eiders
and one Wood Duck flying close to shore with a flock of Common Eiders? Along
the Beach…a flock of Snow Buntings and an American Pipit put on a nice show. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">During the
next two days we would work our way up and down Rte 6 from Chatham to
Provincetown, stopping at Fort Hill, Wellfleet Harbor, Morris Island and High
Head to mention just a few. We had some nice birds but nothing to out of the ordinary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A late Lincoln’s Sparrow at High Head, Fox
Sparrow, Rusty Blackbird at Fort Hill and loads of Dunlins, Black-bellied
Plovers, American Oystercatcher and a couple Peregrine Falcons in Chatham.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Complete list below. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Northern Harrier- Race Point</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Gray Seals- Herring Cove Beach, Provincetown.</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Common Eiders- Provincetown</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Great Blue Heron- Marsh near High Head.</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Provincetown</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Race Point- Provincetown.</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Common Loon-Wellfleet Harbor</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Common Eider-Having a snack...Wellfleet Harbor.</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Gang....Chatham Light</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Chatham</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chatham Light</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Herring Gull- dropping a scallop.</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Greater Yellowlegs</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Great Egret- Coast Guard Beach.</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Great Blue Heron</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Bonaparte's Gull- Coast Guard Beach.</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Yellow-rumped Warbler- Fort Hill.</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Northern Cardinal</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Peregrine Falcon- Fort Hill.</strong><br />
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</span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hampshire
Bird Club</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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– Nov. 9-11, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chatham
(Chatham Light/Morris Island/Cow Yard Rd/Hardings Beach/CockleCove)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Orleans
(Nauset Beach)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Eastham
(Coast Guard Beach/Fort Hill/First Encounter Beach)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Wellfleet
(Harbor)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Truro
(High Head/Head of the Meadow)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Provincetown
(Race Point/Herring Cove Beach/MacMillian Wharf)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Canada
Goose- Low numbers.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Brant
-10<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Swan -2<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Duck -1. Flying with Eiders at Race Point.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">American
Black Duck- common.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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surprisingly uncommon this weekend.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Green-winged
Teal-17. Coast Guard Beach, Nauset Beach, High Head.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ring-necked
Duck-8 Eastham.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Greater
Scaup- 9<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Common
Eider- 3000+ large numbers in Chatham.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Harlequin
Duck-1 male. Nauset Beach…Thank You Sally.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Surf
Scoter- Common- 50-100<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">White-winged
Scoter- Most Common-1000+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Scoter- 250-300<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Long-tailed
Duck -12<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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250+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Common
Goldeneye-2.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hooded
Merganser- 3 Fort Hill.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Red-breasted
Merganser- 75+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Red-throated
Loon- 25<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Common
Loon- 65<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Horned
Grebe-15<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Grebe- 4<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Great
Shearwater-2 Race Point.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Gannet- 400<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Double-crested
Cormorant- 1500+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Great
Cormorant-6<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Great
Blue Heron- 10<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Great
Egret-2<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Harrier-6<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sharp-shinned
Hawk-3<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Red-tailed
Hawk-2<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Merlin-1.
High Head.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Peregrine
Falcon- 3. Chatham & Fort Hill.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">American
Coot- Eastham<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Black-bellied
Plover-150+ (Most at Morris Island)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">American
Oystercatcher-1 Morris Island.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Willet-1
Chatham.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ruddy
Turnstone-1 Chatham.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Semipalmated
Sandpiper-6<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">White-rumped
Sandpiper- 1 Herring Cove.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dunlin-275
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Bonaparte’s
Gull-300+ Largest numbers-Race Point.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Laughing
Gull-9<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ring-billed
Gull- 40+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Herring
Gull-very common.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Great
Black-backed Gull-Commn<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Common
Tern-50 Race Point.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Parasitic
Jaeger-3 Race Point.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Rock
Pigeon- 300<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Dove- 14<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Woodpecker-1 Fort Hill<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Woodpecker-3<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Flicker-4<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Jay-5<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Crow<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Lark-6<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Chickadee 23<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Titmouse-4<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Nuthatch-1 Morris Island<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">White-breasted
Nuthatch-1 Fort Hill<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Wren-7<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Kinglet-3<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ruby-crowned
Kinglet-1 Eastham.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Bluebird-2 Eastham<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Robin- 85+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Catbird-4<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Mockingbird-3<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">E.Starling-400_<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">American
Pipit-1 Race Point.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Warbler- 65+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Palm
Warbler-2 Chatham Light.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Sparrow-1 Fort Hill.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Sparrow-15<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lincoln’s
Sparrow-1 High Head.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Sparrow-3<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Bunting-41 Race Point.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Cardinal-17<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Blackbird-1<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Blackbird-1 Fort Hill<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Finch- 22<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Goldfinch-20+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Sparrow-20<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Species </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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Seals<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Deer<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Weekend
Weather: Temps 38-60, Strong NW winds on Saturday 10-20mph. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sunday-light
winds (SW) Cloudy-light on-off rains. Monday –Clear steady NW winds.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<strong></strong><br />Surner Birdinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16176215519070528706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542219295669877215.post-47256331435235665302013-11-04T21:38:00.000-05:002013-11-04T21:38:45.232-05:00<span class="userContent">Nine members of the Hampshire Bird Club (led by Tom Gagnon) enjoyed a rewarding, but cold day in the Berkshires today. The highlight of the day was the fallout of Scoters that occurred throughout the Berkshires and many other regions of Massachusetts. By far, Black Scoters were the most numerous, with token appearances by White-winged and Surf Scoters. We visited several lakes and reservoirs from Hinsdale, Cheshire, Pittsfield, Richmond and to Stockbridge. Every body of water had a flock of Scoters on it, this was the first time this annual trip had encountered something like this. We ended the day with 264 Black Scoters, 2 White-winged and 10 Surf Scoters. A total of 16 species of waterfowl, including Canada Goose (200+) Wood Duck (2) Mallard (125+) Am.Black Duck (8) Green-winged Teal (24) Ring-necked Duck (2) Long-tailed Duck (41) Common Goldeneye (3) Bufflehead (86) Common Merganser (70) Red-breasted Merganser (1) Hooded Merganser (83) and (2) Ruddy Ducks. Also seen, 1-Common Loon,2-Pied-billed Grebes, 1- Double-cr.Cormorant, (2) Great Blue Herons, 28 American Coots, 2 Bald Eagles, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Belted Kingfisher, 2 Common Raven, Yellow-rumped Warbler and Snow Bunting.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Black Scoters- Cleveland Reservoir. The first of serveral flocks encountered.</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Bald Eagle-(Juv) Kept the Ducks moving around the lake.</em></strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Scoters & Buffleheads- Large flock containing all three species of Scoters on Lake Onota.</em></strong></td></tr>
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<span class="userContent"></span>Surner Birdinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16176215519070528706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542219295669877215.post-21156688407120313662013-10-15T20:51:00.000-04:002013-10-15T20:53:04.267-04:00Sparrow Hunting<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Under near perfect
weather conditions, Fifteen Hampshire Bird Club members set out last Sunday
morning to beat the weed patches of the Honey Pot in search of Sparrows. Of
course, being October-it is prime time to encounter those elusive….LBJ’S. (Little
Brown Jobs) We ended the day with nine species of Sparrows, the most notable
were Vesper & Grasshopper Sparrow. However, we were afforded terrific looks
at Song, Savannah, Swamp, White-Crowned, White-throated, and lesser looks at
Field and Chipping Sparrows. However….sparrows weren’t the only entertainment-
We had great looks at a Merlin harassing a Northern Harrier, Yellow-rumped
& Palm Warblers (Eastern & Western) Cooper ’s hawk, a late bobolink and
up to 10 Fish Crows at the Donut man in Hadley. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Below are <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lists and photos of the birds encountered
during Sunday’s trip, however some of the photos were taken the week
before.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Scott</span></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Northern Harrier & Merlin. Merlins just go out of their way to make the lives of other birds miserable .</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Northern Harrier- A more peaceful moment</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Vesper Sparrow- on the powerline in the Honey Pot. I generally see Vesper Sparrows sitting & calling from the Powerlines in the Springtime, not so much in the fall.</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Swamp Sparrow- early October is primetime for these guys here in the valley.</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Chipping Sparrow- </strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Palm Warbler-Eastern. We also had decent looks at a Western Palm.</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>White-crowned Sparrow-Adult.</strong></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lincoln's Sparrow- of the expected sparrows...we missed this one.</strong><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></i> Canada Goose 72<br />
American Black Duck 4<br />
Northern Harrier 1<br />
Cooper's
Hawk 1<br />
Red-tailed Hawk 2<br />
Killdeer 1<br />
Mourning Dove 1<br />
Red-bellied
Woodpecker 1<br />
Downy Woodpecker 1<br />
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)
1<br />
Merlin 1<br />
Eastern Phoebe 2<br />
Blue Jay 4<br />
American Crow
80<br />
Carolina Wren 1<br />
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1<br />
Eastern Bluebird
8<br />
American Robin 5<br />
European Starling 20<br />
American Pipit 8<br />
Palm
Warbler (Western) 1<br />
Palm Warbler (Yellow) 5<br />
Yellow-rumped Warbler
(Myrtle) 12<br />
Field Sparrow 2<br />
Vesper Sparrow 1<br />
Savannah Sparrow
70<br />
Grasshopper Sparrow 1<br />
Song Sparrow 45<br />
Swamp Sparrow
12<br />
White-throated Sparrow 2<br />
White-crowned Sparrow (Eastern)
6<br />
Bobolink 1<br />
Red-winged Blackbird 22<br />
Rusty Blackbird 2<br />
American
Goldfinch 5</div>
East Meadows- Northampton<br />
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Canada Goose 30<br />
Turkey Vulture 2<br />
Northern Harrier 2<br />
Accipiter sp.
1<br />
Killdeer 9<br />
Merlin 1<br />
American Crow 6<br />
Horned Lark 12<br />
Northern
Mockingbird 1<br />
American Pipit 15<br />
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
17<br />
Chipping Sparrow 1<br />
Savannah Sparrow 3<br />
Song Sparrow
5<br />
Red-winged Blackbird 2<br />
House Finch 4<br />
American Goldfinch 8<br />
House
Sparrow 6<br />
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