 |
|
|
|
|
MASSBIRD for Thursday, June 12, 2008
[ Prev Day
| Next Day
| Calendar Month
| MASSBIRD Info
]
|
|
To use email addresses replace '(AT)' with '@'.
This is done to confuse the spam 'bots.
|
[ << | >> | ^^ ]
Subject: N. Parula in Ashfield
From: Steve Sauter <Steve(AT)stevesauter.com>
Date: 12 Jun 2008 7:32am
I had a male parula singing in a small stand of mixed trees on the
east side of Watson Spruce Corner road, across from the farm pond at
approximately #600. This was at 8 pm last evening.
Steve Sauter
Ashfield, Ma
[ << | >> | ^^ ]
Subject: Callahan SP 6/11/08 - Framingham MA
From: birder526(AT)comcast.net
Date: 12 Jun 2008 11:14am
Hi Massbirders,
We birded at Callahan State park yesterday, south entrance, and had the
following highlights only:
Cedar Waxwings - had to easily be 50 or more vocalizing as well as visible.
Bobolink - (1) good look (in flight and in a tree; were told by a local
biologist that Boblinks are common there, although this was our first
sighting).
Great Blue Heron (1)
Killdeer (1)
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Pine Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (1)
E. Phoebe
Great-crested Flycatcher (heard)
E. Kingbird (1)
Barn Swallow
Other things in flight:
Butterflies:
Monarch (a few)
Common Buckeye
Painted Lady
Common Ringlet
Spicebush Swallowtail
E. Tiger Swallowtail
Orange Sulphur
assorted skippers not id'd
Moth:
Eight-spotted Forester
Dragonflies:
10-Spotted
Black Saddlebags
Common Baskettail
Damselfly:
bluet sp.
On Parmenter Rd. in Marlborough we heard a Pileated Woodpecker drumming while
stopped. At Stearns Organic Farm (Framingham) we had another Killdeer.
Heard a Red-bellied Woodpecker as well.
Good birding,
Diane Silverstein & Mike Dettrey
--
Diane Silverstein
N. Attleboro,MA
birder526(AT)comcast.net
[ << | >> | ^^ ]
Subject: Manomet 6/12/08
From: Ian Davies <goshawk227(AT)earthlink.net>
Date: 12 Jun 2008 7:09pm
Less and less birds in the nets daily, we caught 9 today, in 12 hours of
banding. Thats probably the main reason why all the nets come down for the
summer tomorrow :p
There were still some good birds around though, the Bonies persist, with a
couple having partial hoods now, and a couple raptors were nice, especially a
wonderful adult Red-shouldered Hawk, the brightest red one I have ever seen.
Also when I got home tonight, sitting out on the deck I watched two pairs of
Black-crowned Night-Herons head north, I assume to a roost. Full list from today
below:
Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences--IBA (0620-1725):
Common Loon 2ad
Double-crested Cormorant 20
Osprey 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1ad
Laughing Gull 29
Bonaparte's Gull 11 - 9 1-W, 2 1-S
Ring-billed Gull 50
Herring Gull (American) 35
Great Black-backed Gull 40
Least Tern 12
Common Tern 11
Mourning Dove 8
Belted Kingfisher 1
Downy Woodpecker 4
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 3
Eastern Phoebe 2
Great Crested Flycatcher 5
Red-eyed Vireo 3
Blue Jay 4
American Crow 3
Fish Crow 7
Tree Swallow 4
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2
Bank Swallow 18
Black-capped Chickadee 4
Tufted Titmouse 4
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 4
House Wren 3
American Robin 15
Gray Catbird 12
Brown Thrasher 2
European Starling 7
Cedar Waxwing 5
Yellow Warbler 2
Common Yellowthroat 4
Song Sparrow 4
Northern Cardinal 9
Red-winged Blackbird 8
Common Grackle 20
Brown-headed Cowbird 4
Orchard Oriole 1
Baltimore Oriole 3
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 6
45 species
Bartlett Pond (1830-1850):
Canada Goose 8
Mute Swan 5
Mallard 3
Black-crowned Night-Heron 4ad
Laughing Gull 15
Ring-billed Gull 3
Herring Gull (American) 2
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Least Tern 2
Common Tern 3
Mourning Dove 7
Chimney Swift 4
Belted Kingfisher 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 1
Eastern Kingbird 1
Blue Jay 2
Fish Crow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 2
Tufted Titmouse 3
Carolina Wren 2
House Wren 1
American Robin 8
Gray Catbird 6
European Starling 5
Yellow Warbler 6
Common Yellowthroat 1
Song Sparrow 3
Northern Cardinal 4
Red-winged Blackbird 18
Common Grackle 15
Brown-headed Cowbird 3
Baltimore Oriole 6
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 5
House Sparrow 6
36 species
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
Good birding,
Ian Davies
Manomet, MA
[ << | >> | ^^ ]
Subject: Field Note: Northern Waterthrush at a pavement
"stream"
From: Jeffrey Boone Miller <miller(AT)bbri.org>
Date: 12 Jun 2008 7:52pm
Field Note: Northern Waterthrush at a pavement "stream"
On June 4, 2008, I had an unusual opportunity to observe a Northern
Waterthrush (Seiurus noveboracensis) at close range over the course
of more than four hours. My office in Watertown, Massachusetts
overlooks an ~25 foot wide strip of asphalt that is ~100 yards long
with our three story building on the south side and an ~50 foot wide
strip of wooded land on the north side. A four foot high wire mesh
fence separates the pavement from the trees.
On this day of continuous light rain and a temperature of ~70°F,
runoff had created a shallow "stream", one to two feet wide and less
than an inch deep, that flowed on the asphalt parallel to a shallow
curb by the fence. At ~10:30 A.M., my attention was caught by a
bird walking in this runoff. The bird exhibited repeated tail
flicking and a teetering walk. I considered Song Sparrow, Spotted
Sandpiper, and Hermit Thrush before I finally pulled out my
binoculars and found that it was a Northern Waterthrush.
The bird remained in a remarkably small area for several hours.
Until ~3 P.M., I checked for the bird multiple times, with a
cumulative observation time of ~30 minutes. I quickly found the bird
every time I looked; it was always walking in or near the runoff or
within the first 3 - 5 feet of neighboring forest and it stayed
within a segment of the "stream" that was only ~30 feet in length.
Thus, it remained within a total area of less than 300 square feet
for several hours. I did not hear the bird vocalize at any time (my
window was open), and it moved under the trees when disturbed by
traffic.
The bird could perhaps stay in this small area because of a high
density of prey. When in the runoff, the bird seldom had to travel
more than two or three feet before locating a prey item, most of
which appeared to be small (<0.5 inch long), light-colored
caterpillars. Feeding success appeared to be much lower when in the
nearby vegetation.
These prey items possibly originated in the overhanging Black Locust
(Robinia pseudoacacia) trees that had been in spectacular and
aromatic bloom for several days. In previous days, a steady
procession of birds had been feeding on larvae among these blooms.
The day's rain knocked large amounts of the trees' flower petals into
the newly formed runoff stream, so it seems likely that prey items
arrived with the petals and that additional prey items continued to
be washed into the runoff throughout the day.
Northern Waterthrushes have a strong preference for riparian habitat
(cf. Eaton, 1995), and, for at least this one day, this small patch
of "streamside" habitat, though both artificial and ephemeral,
matched this preference.
Reference:
Eaton, Stephen W. 1995. Northern Waterthrush (Seiurus
noveboracensis), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.).
Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North
America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu.ezp1.harvard.edu/bna/
species/182 doi:10.2173/bna.182
J. Boone Miller
Belmont MA
miller(AT)bbri.org
[ << | >> | ^^ ]
Subject: Request For Western Mass. Info
From: Donald Wilkinson <singingbirder(AT)yahoo.com>
Date: 12 Jun 2008 9:14pm
Dear Massbirders,
I'll be in North Hampton from 6/16-6/22 performing in a new opera.
If you have any tips on the following birds (they would be state birds for me)
please share.
Black Vulture
Vesper Sparrow
Northern Goshawk
Thanks, Don
p.s. The opera is "Our American Cousin" (ouramericancousin.com). I'm playing
Abraham Lincoln - it's a beautiful opera!
Donald Wilkinson
Nahant MA 01908
singingbirder(AT)yahoo.com
http://donaldwilkinson.com/
(Now accepting reservations for the 2009 NORTH CAROLINA Memorial day Weekend
Pelagic trip)
[ << | >> | ^^ ]
Subject: Francisca and Jose /RT hawk images
From: "Eduardo del Solar" <delsolar(AT)bellatlantic.net>
Date: 12 Jun 2008 9:06pm
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
----INCLUDING text/plain MIME SECTION----
I have decided to name the RT hawks nesting near my house Francisca and =
Jose. I have not found the nest but it must be quite close to my house. =
Both of them seem to be here at sunrise and at sunset. The dead oak =
tree next to my house (Jones Hill) and the bell tower at Meeting House =
Hill in Dorchester give them top views of the valley. Here are a few =
recent images from my back porch.
Jose, as the sun goes down, does the talon stretch
http://www.pbase.com/ne_wildlife_photography/image/98584739
Francisca in flight
http://www.pbase.com/ne_wildlife_photography/image/98307606
Francisca looking up as Jose is up in the air
http://www.pbase.com/ne_wildlife_photography/image/98261953
Jose another stretch
http://www.pbase.com/ne_wildlife_photography/image/98547794
Eduardo del Solar
Boston, Mass
delsolar(AT)bellatlantic.net
----DELETED text/html MIME SECTION----
[ << | >> | ^^ ]
Subject: Plum Island rails
From: Mbird49(AT)aol.com
Date: 12 Jun 2008 9:04pm
----INCLUDING text/plain MIME SECTION----
Ida and I went to Plum looking for the reported king rail. Alice Morgan
joined us and spotted the
king rail after waiting patiently for an hour or 2. While Ida and Alice were
looking at the adult, I was
looking at a small black puff ball disappearing into the grasses. It was in
the same area as the
king rail which we all got good looks at several minutes later. Could this
be a young king
rail chick? We had heard the rail calling shortly before this. We did not
see the black puff ball again
and left shortly after.
Before this I heard and saw a Virginia rail just to the south of the left
hand pine trees. Alice
found the orchard oriole nest and we saw the female leave the nest.
Next we went to Hellcat and,you guessed it, Alice first spotted the least
bittern which stayed in sight
for 5 or 6 minutes. What a wonderful day, both birdwise and weatherwise.
Mollie
Mollie Taylor
Danvers
mbird49(AT)aol.com
**************Vote for your city's best dining and nightlife. City's Best
2008. (http://citysbest.aol.com?ncid=aolacg00050000000102)
----DELETED text/html MIME SECTION----
[ << | >> | ^^ ]
Subject: Black Vulture
From: "George W. Gove" <gwgove(AT)charter.net>
Date: 12 Jun 2008 10:13pm
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
----INCLUDING text/plain MIME SECTION----
Yesterday, June 2, 2008, while driving east on the Mass Turnpike in =
Brimfield, we saw a Black Vulture being harassed by a crow.=20
Also yesterday at Mt Holyoke, while we were watching a female Cerulean =
Warbler on the nest, a male Indigo Bunting flew in near the nest, sat =
for a few moments, and then chased the female Cerulean off the nest. She =
then chased the bunting away and then foraged for a while (since she was =
up) before retiring to the nest. The male Cerulean was in the vicinity =
but we are not sure what roll he played if any. The bunting returned to =
a tree about 100 feet away where there may be a nest; we didn't see a =
female bunting but there was another male Indigo Bunting in the area =
also.=20
The nest was pointed out to us by Randall and Peter.=20
George Gove & Judy Gordon
Southboro
----DELETED text/html MIME SECTION----
[ << | >> | ^^ ]
Subject: CT Report 06/12/2008
From: Roy Harvey <rmharvey(AT)snet.net>
Date: 12 Jun 2008 9:54pm
From Mark Aronson:
6/12 - New Haven, Whitney at Cottage Street -- Common Nighthawk
continues.
From Paul Cianfaglione:
6/12 - Bloomfield, Reservoir #3 (Route 189) -- 2 EASTERN MEADOWLARK, 6
BOBOLINK.
From Richard Montesanto:
6/11 - Norwalk, Farm Creek (Rowayton) -- YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON.
From Angela Dimmitt:
6/11 - Kent, dump on Rte 341 just east of town is a good place to
find large numbers of Black Vultures (and Turkey Vultures) around
4:30 pm when they close the dump.
**********************************************************************
This CTDailyReport list is sponsored by the Connecticut Ornithological
Association (COA). It is primarily meant to meet the informational
needs of the active CT birder. Any other use requires written
authorization from the board of directors of the COA.
**********************************************************************
Visit the COA web site at http://www.ctbirding.org
Reports should be sent to CTBirdReport(AT)ftml.net. Reports should
include sender's name, date, location of sightings and species of note
at each location. Reporting Guidelines are available at:
http://www.ctbirding.org/ecommittee.htm#reporting
To change your subscription options, or unsubscribe, please visit
http://lists.ctbirding.org/mailman/listinfo/ctdailyreport_lists.ctbirding.org
Archives of these reports may be found at either of these locations:
http://www.virtualbirder.com/bmail/ctbird/latest.html
http://lists.ctbirding.org/pipermail/ctdailyreport_lists.ctbirding.org/
|
|
|
|
BIRDxxxx
US:NewEngland
CTBIRD
MASSBIRD