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Subject: RFI: Long-eared Owl Electronic File
From: MResch8702(AT)aol.com
Date: 31 May 2008 6:02am
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Mass Birders:
Does anyone happen to have an electronic file of Long-eared owl they could
forward to me (though need to be careful about copyright issues and so forth).
Many thanks -
Mike Resch
Pepperell, MA
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Subject: Mourning Warbler at Boston Public Gardens 5/31 AM
From: "Tim Factor" <tef617(AT)gmail.com>
Date: 31 May 2008 8:10am
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Male
Singing intermittently (voice more slurred and reedier than I'd been
listening for)
Mostly at the top of a couple of the big willows at the north end of the
lake although it did drop to the ground once.
Unequivocal, indisputable views this time ;-)
Last seen at 7:45
Cheers!
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Tim Factor
Boston
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Subject: B-b Cuckoo- MM Airport
From: Al Curtis <killdeer89(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 31 May 2008 10:36am
On a very short walk (supposed to be working) at Marstons Mills
Airport on 5/30, I watched 2 Black-billed Cuckoos apparently
squabbling over territory. I was going to submit this as incidental,
but it is before safe date. I did notice that this block has had very
little coverage (Sandwich6). As anyone who knows the area can attest,
the birding can be fantastic around the airport and golf course!
Al Curtis
Harwich, MA
killdeer89 "at" comcast.net
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Subject: Re: South Beach - 5/28
From: Al Curtis <killdeer89(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 31 May 2008 10:22am
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Subject: Menotomy Rocks Park (Arlington) Acadian FC
From: stevensimpson(AT)comcast.net
Date: 31 May 2008 11:12am
I am pretty sure I had an Acadian Flycatcher this morning near the pond at
Menotomy Rocks Park (Arlington).
Also of note: a few Blackpols and redstarts still around, Orchard Oriole and
Red-breasted Grosbeak singing, pair of Great-crested FCs in the woods looking
very friendly toward each other (the male singing explosively — trying to
impress).
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Steven A. Simpson (Arlington)
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Subject: Mobbing a crow
From: Richard Danca <rdanca(AT)ix.netcom.com>
Date: 31 May 2008 12:02pm
The loud racket in my backyard this morning turned out to be a large,
mixed flock mobbing a crow that had nabbed, but not yet killed a robin
nestling/fledgling and then was harassed into hiding in a hedge.
The flock included: mockingbird, grackle, robin, starling, blue jay,
house sparrow -- and maybe more; it was happening pretty quickly. The
birds succeeded in chasing the crow away from the robin, which it was
pecking at. The crow and its harassers took flight and went back and
forth across a neighbor's yard, but, of course, the chick was a goner.
(Not a problem vis a vis nature being nature, but there are cats in the
neighborhood. Sigh.) Oddly -- or not? -- the doves under the feeder
didn't seem to be bothered at all and just kept feeding.
Obla di obla dah, life goes on.
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Subject: Looking for info on a booklet called Introduction
To Hawking
From: "Scott Ricker" <ptbagger(AT)verizon.net>
Date: 31 May 2008 12:16pm
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Fellow Birders,
I recently came across a somewhat older booklet called; An Introduction To
Hawking by E.W. Jameson, Jr & Hans J. Peeters. Its Copyright was 1971 and a
revised version came out in 1977. The Printer was Davis, California.
If you know anything about this booklet please contact me off-list.
Scott Ricker
Southwick, MA.
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Subject: 5/30 Duxbury Beach ISS - migration in full swing
From: Rick Bowes <rbowes(AT)bowesweb.com>
Date: 31 May 2008 12:08pm
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5/31/08 4:30-7:45pm; HiTide: 8:03 pm (9.9'); Clear became cloudy;
Temp: 59; Lt NE breeze became 10-15 S wind; Bay: quiet becoming
choppy; Ocean: small waves
Many shorebirds scattered about. Ruddy Turnstones were everywhere in
all-Turnstone flocks, mixed flocks, and in singles and pairs both
above and below High Pines. They often were surprisingly well
camouflaged in the grasses despite their colorful plumage and bright
white heads. I thought they had peaked a few days earlier, but this
was essentially an infestation!
I suspect that there will be a different scene when I go out on
Sunday because many of the birds were in flocks and fidgety - not
spread out and calmly feeding as earlier in the week. Dowitchers
were particularly active. There were several small groups of Dows
(5-20) that flew onto the High Pines peninsula over a 20 minute
period forming a flock that I counted at a max of 107 - though there
were probably 20% or more hidden in the grass that I missed. Three
times a chattering group of 15-30 rose up and headed west over the
bay, then circled back continuing to rise as they came over my head
and flew out over the ocean and then angled northward. With this
replacement flow occurring, plus those that seemed a bit more
settled in other areas of the beach, I'm estimating 200 Dowitchers.
The High Pines pit stop continues to make its contribution.
As the clouds took over and the breeze shifted from the northeast to
the south and strengthened, the flocks in marsh became more active
and small groups of Turnstones, Black-bellies and calidris began to
be on the move. I suspect most of the individuals I was seeing will
have headed north on these favorable south winds by Sunday only to
be replaced by others who got a later start or started further
south. The activity should drop off fast over the next week - but
hopefully today's southerly breezes will bring more handsome,
migrants to be enjoyed for a few more days!
Shorebirds:
Black-bellied Plover - 259 (flocks of 80,75,25 rest small groups)
Semipalmated plover - 72 (concentrated in flocks of 31, 40)
Piping Plover - 5 (1 pr rest scattered)
Killdeer - 1 (S. of High Pines)
Greater Yellowlegs - 1 (off Plum Hills)
Willet - 23 (everywhere!)
Ruddy Turnstone - 517 (flocks of 150,115,60,50 rest scattered)
Sanderling - 30 (flock of 23, others scattered)
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 111 (flocks of 80, 30; see calidris below)
Least Sandpiper - 10 (5,3 & 1; see calidris below)
White-rumped Sandpiper - 1 (see calidris below)
Dunlin - 112 (flocks of 50, 50, 12; see calidris below)
Short-billed Dowitcher - 200 (small flocks making brief stops,
max on ground 107,plus others)
and
Calidris (sp) - 300 minimum (intermingled with the Turnstones and
Black-bellies in the marsh grasses were a great many small
sandpipers. My estimate is conservative based on birds seen on the
ground. Considering how many more appeared when the flocks rise up
out of the grass and move around a bit - doubling that number would
not be unreasonable. Probably 20% were Dunlin, 80% semipalmated but
the overall estimates of numbers are so loose that I have just lumped
them in here, not in the Dunlin count).
Rick Bowes
Duxbury, MA
rbowes(at)bowesweb.com
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Subject: Brooks Estate 5/31 Mourning Warbler
From: Linda Ferraresso <tattler1(AT)verizon.net>
Date: 31 May 2008 2:40pm
A male Mourning Warbler was singing quietly and intermittently though
seen well at Brooks Estate in Medford this a.m. While the variety of
birds was down, also seen or heard were:
Black-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-blled Cuckoo
Red-eyed Vireo
Wood Thrush
American Redstart
Blackpoll
Yellow Warbler
Cheers!
Linda
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Linda Ferraresso
Watertown, MA
tattler1(at)verizon(dot)net
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark" -
Tagore
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Subject: May 31 - Mourning Warbler in Marshfield
From: "John Galluzzo" <jgalluzzo(AT)massaudubon.org>
Date: 31 May 2008 3:12pm
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Whilst atlasing prior to our Walk for Wildlife, I found a mourning
warbler in birch trees at the corner of Plymouth and Wilson in
Marshfield, in the Ocean Bluff section of town.
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John Galluzzo
Adult Education Coordinator
Citizen Science Coordinator
Mass Audubon South Shore Sanctuaries
2000 Main Street
Marshfield MA 02050
jgalluzzo(AT)massaudubon.org
www.massaudubon.org/southshorejournal
781-837-9400
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Subject: Brown Creeper nest and hanging American Robin,
Plymouth
From: Kathryn Doyon <gizzybird(AT)verizon.net>
Date: 31 May 2008 3:00pm
This morning I located a tree where a pair of Brown
Creepers have a nest. It was awesome to watch the
birds arrive to the tree with insects, disappear
behind a slab of bark, then reappear, occasionnally
with a fecal sac. I enjoyed taking photos.
On a much unhappier note, I found an American Robin
hanging upside down from a small tree. Its foot was
tangled in fishing line which was wrapped in the tree.
Unfortunately, I was unable to reach it.
Kathy
Kathryn Doyon
Plymouth, MA
Gizzybird(AT)verizon.net
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Subject: Blackstone 5/31
From: "Mark Lynch" <moa.lynch(AT)verizon.net>
Date: 31 May 2008 3:36pm
We spent the morning atlasing BLACKSTONE, blocks Uxbridge 11 and Uxbridge 12
(a half-sized block on the Rhode Island border. The weather was breezy and
warm with threatening clouds to the north. But it never did rain, though by
the time we got back to Worcester it was obvious that heavy showers had
passed through central Worcester County just to our north. Both of us have
some kind of upper respiratory infection, so the pace was leisurely, but
intense. Absolutely no indication of migratory movement today: it was all
migrant breeders on territory. Lots of breeding behavior observed today:
nest-building; sitting on nests; feeding young and even a number of fledged
birds all seen. Total list for both blocks:
Double-crested Cormorant (1: soaring with some TVs)
Great Blue Heron (2: in these Blackstone blocks we keep seeing Great Blue’s
flying north with what appears to be a full crop: ie: bringing food back to
young in the nest. Despite a lot of effort over a month, we cannot find any
rookery and have determined it must be just north of our Uxbridge 11 block
in some fairly inaccessible woodlot or beaver marsh)
Turkey Vulture (4)
Wood Duck (1m)
Mallard (6)
Cooper’s Hawk (1ad defending territory against a Red-tail)
Red-tailed Hawk (6)
Killdeer (6)
Spotted Sandpiper (1)
Rock Pigeon (13)
Mourning Dove (52: we saw some newly fledged birds)
Black-billed Cuckoo (2: pair)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (2)
Eastern Screech Owl (1)
Chimney Swift (26)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (2)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (2)
Downy Woodpecker (7: young in nest hole)
N Flicker (5)
E Wood Peewee (14)
Willow Flycatcher (2)
Eastern Phoebe (8)
Great Crested Flycatcher (3)
Eastern Kingbird (5: nest building observed)
Warbling Vireo (9: on nest)
Red-eyed Vireo (15)
Blue Jay (4)
A Crow (14: fledged young begging food seen)
Tree Swallow (6)
N Rough-winged Swallow (3)
Barn Swallow (23)
Black-capped Chickadee (24)
Tufted Titmouse (26)
White-breasted Nuthatch (2)
Carolina Wren (5)
House Wren (19)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (4: on nest)
Eastern Bluebird (2)
Wood Thrush (4)
A Robin (96: a few fledged young seen)
Gray Catbird (50)
N Mockingbird (19)
Brown Thrasher (6)
E Starling (237: MANY newly fledged young seen)
Cedar Waxwing (21)
WARBLERS:
Blue-winged (5)
Yellow (17)
Pine (9)
Prairie (4)
Black and White (4)
A Redstart (6)
Ovenbird (12)
C Yellowthroat (5)
Scarlet Tanager (3)
E Towhee (12)
Chipping Sparrow (66)
Field Sparrow (1)
Savannah Sparrow (1)
Song Sparrow (37)
N Cardinal (32)
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (6)
Indigo Bunting (4: all males)
Bobolink (8)
Red-winged Blackbird (51)
Common Grackle (113)
Brown-headed Cowbird (1 fledged young)
ORCHARD ORIOLE (3m, one first year)
Baltimore Oriole (33)
House Finch (4)
A Goldfinch (11)
House Sparrow (84: many newly fledged young).
PLUS: BUTTERFLIES: Tiger Swallowtail (8); Black Swallowtail (1); Clouded
Sulphur (3); Little Wood Satyr (1); Common Ringlet (3); Hobomok Skipper (1).
PLUS: A number of SPOTTED TURTLES in small boggy wet areas in wood lots.
Mark Lynch/Sheila Carroll
Moa.lynch(AT)verizon.net
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Subject: Another Mourning Warbler in Milton
From: pattyoneill(AT)juno.com
Date: 31 May 2008 3:38pm
Hi,
This morning at Fowl Meadow, I saw my second Mourning Warbler in Milton
in two days. This one was close to the Route 128 end of the main path,
just about where the more open area turns to woodlands. It turns out
that the bird I reported yesterday was not my first for Milton. Looking
into my records, yesterday's and today's birds were my third and fourth
for the town.
Also of interest were three black-billed and one yellow-billed cuckoo,
two plus willow flycatchers, three blue-winged warblers, two American
redstarts, lots of blue-gray gnatcatchers, warbling vireos, Baltimore
orioles, rose-breasted grosbeaks, and veerys. I heard a few ovenbirds
and wood thrushes. No sign of Virginia rail in four visits. The water
level is the lowest I have ever seen it.
Patty O'Neill
Milton Ma
pattyoneill(AT)juno.com
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Subject: Re: Brooks Estate 5/31 Mourning Warbler
From: Linda Ferraresso <tattler1(AT)verizon.net>
Date: 31 May 2008 4:38pm
Ooops, I failed in my effort to get a report out to give credit to Marj
Rines who found the Mourning Warbler this morning! Thanks Marj!
Linda
Linda Ferraresso wrote:
> A male Mourning Warbler was singing quietly and intermittently though
> seen well at Brooks Estate in Medford this a.m. While the variety of
> birds was down, also seen or heard were:
>
> Black-billed Cuckoo
> Yellow-blled Cuckoo
> Red-eyed Vireo
> Wood Thrush
> American Redstart
> Blackpoll
> Yellow Warbler
>
> Cheers!
> Linda
>
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Linda Ferraresso
Watertown, MA
tattler1(at)verizon(dot)net
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark" -
Tagore
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Subject: Long-tailed Jaeger
From: "Vern Laux" <vlaux(AT)llnf.org>
Date: 31 May 2008 8:28pm
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This afternoon May 31 at 3:30 P.M. I was conducting a sea watch along the
south shore of Nantucket at the west end of the Nantucket Conservation
Foundation's "Head of the Plains" from 2:30P.M. until 4:30 P.M. The wind
was blowing at 30 miles per hour gusting to 40 from due south, straight
onshore and the weather was dicey with scattered precipitation. The precip.
was great as it brought the bird closer to shore. While observing a steady
flow of sub-adult Northern Gannets flying from west to east, there were
hundreds of Sooty Shearwaters, 1 Greater Shearwater, 1 imm. Bonaparte's
Gull, 3 Lesser Black-backs, 1 2ndt summer Glaucous Gull.
At 3:30 P.M. I fortuitously caught a bird peripherally coming
inland to my right about 50 yards away. I knew it was a Jaeger and I yelled
to my passenger to jump out of the truck, and look behind us, this is a good
bird. We leaped out into the wind and I was amazed by the sight of an adult
Long-tailed Jaeger at close range , leisurely surveying the tundra-like
grassland of this area. The birds small size, long tail streamers, black cap
and distinctive everything about this species which I had last seen in this
plumage 3 years ago, to the exact date on tundra in Alaska, elicited screams
of delight and amazement from myself. The bird then proceeded to turn into
the wind, facing me and start hunting over this grassland/tundra with its
tail streamers flowing and all salient field marks clearly visible at less
than 100 yards making this the best view of a Long-tailed Jaeger ever
imaginable in MA. For about 8 minutes the bird surveyed the area, all the
while interacting with local Ospreys and Northern Harriers before continuing
wending its way north, straight across the island on its way to tundra
breeding grounds. The bird was stunning and the experience unforgettable in
Massachusetts.
E. Vernon Laux
Linda Loring Nature FoundationP.O. Box 149
Nantucket, MA 02554
508-325-0873
FAX 508-325-5075
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Subject: CT Report 05/31/2008
From: Roy Harvey <rmharvey(AT)snet.net>
Date: 31 May 2008 9:22pm
From Paul Cianfaglione:
5/31 - Windsor Locks, Bradley International Airport (Perimeter Road)
-- At least 7 GRASSHOPPER SPARROW, with the largest concentration
being found near the Fed Ex building. There was also a pair of HORNED
LARK feeding along the security fence at the Route 20 observation lot
(Larks have nested here before). Other species include 3 EASTERN
MEADOWLARK and 10+ SAVANNAH SPARROW.
5/31 - East Granby, Hatchett Hill Road Powerline Cut -- 1 imm.
NORTHERN GOSHAWK.
From Nick Bonomo:
5/31 - West Haven, Sandy Pt -- 4 RED KNOT, 2 BLACK SKIMMER.
From Scott Kruitbosch with Charlie Barnard:
5/30 - Stratford, Boothe Park -- 2 ORCHARD ORIOLES
5/31 - Stratford, Roosevelt Forest -- 1 COMMON RAVEN, 1 DARK-EYED
JUNCO (late)
Stratford, park near Sikorsky Bridge -- 2 ORCHARD ORIOLES
From Scott Kruitbosch with Charlie Barnard and Frank Mantlik:
5/30 - Stratford, McKinney Refuge -- 2 AMERICAN WOODCOCK
From Frank Mantlik:
5/30 - Stratford, Housatonic River, sandbar off Short Beach Park --
6pm, 2 WHIMBRELS, BONAPARTE'S GULL (fly by).
From Patrick Comins:
5/30 - Meriden yard -- BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER.
Guilford, Town Boat Launc -- Several SALTMARSH SHARP-TAILED SPARROWS
seen and heard from the parking area.
Westbrook, Town Beach -- PURPLE MARTINS across the street
Meriden, ridgeline behind Target -- COMMON RAVEN.
From Jack Swatt:
5/30 - Naugatuck, Naugatuck State forest, end of Hunter's Mountain Rd
-- CLAY COLORED SPARROW continues. 10:00 to 10:20 AM
Beacon Falls, Naugatuck State Forest seen from Rt 8 -- 4 BLACK
VULTURES.
Barkhamsted, Peoples State Forest, Elliot Bronson Trail -- 2
BLACKBURNIAN WARBLERS
From Julie Keefer:
5/30 - Lyme, Hartman Park -- late morning, Cerulean Warbler, Wilson's
Warbler
From Renee Rausch via Frank Gallo:
5/29 - Seymour, close by in woods behind my house -- 1 Whip-poor-will
around 9:00 PM.
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Subject: RT hawks/ more images
From: "Eduardo del Solar" <delsolar(AT)bellatlantic.net>
Date: 31 May 2008 9:38pm
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My assumption that the pair of RT hawks that visit me daily do have a =
nest proved to be true. It looks like they have a nest a few blocks =
away and they are using the dead oak tree next to me daily. That makes =
me a very happy photographer! The female perches next door quite early =
and late during the day before specular light ruins the colors we can =
see. Today I just missed capturing the exchange of fresh kill in the =
air between this pair! The dive bombing, the mating, and the fly-by =
with fresh food is a joy to see! Glad that my back porch is between the =
nest and their perching tree. :-)
Life is good!
Angel of death (the male)
http://www.pbase.com/image/97910066
cruising towards the perch tree (female, banded)
http://www.pbase.com/ne_wildlife_photography/image/97916904
male RT
http://www.pbase.com/ne_wildlife_photography/image/97916913
male RT, almost full frame as he approaches my back porch with fresh =
kill :-)
http://www.pbase.com/ne_wildlife_photography/image/97916918
Eduardo del Solar
delsolar(AT)bellatlantic.net
Boston, Mass
http://www.delsolar.org:82/nature/
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