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Subject: Re: FYI: Article on early spring arrival based on
old photo
From: Richard Heil <rsheil(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 20 Mar 2008 5:48am
I find it difficult to believe that in any year in modern history,
that "nothing is growing", and the "trees were bare", on 30 May, as
reported in the NY Times article. In fact I would say this is
impossible, unless something extraordinarily unusual happened in that
year. Even the latest of local trees to leaf out, such as oaks,
locusts, sycamore, and beeches are fully leafed out well before the
end of May. My guess is that the date of the photo is incorrect.
Richard S. Heil
S. Peabody, MA
rsheil(AT)comcast.net
At 05:30 PM 3/19/2008, you wrote:
>The AP has run an interesting article about a BU professor who has
>some evidence that spring is coming earlier in Mass. than in the
>past -- or at least the trees are blooming sooner. The birds? Not so much.
>
>I got the article from the NYTimes, and you may have to register
>(free) to read it. It's at http://nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Spring-East.html
>
> Old Photos Document Early Spring in East
>
> By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
> Published: March 19, 2008
> Filed at 4:10 p.m. ET
> The journals of Henry David Thoreau help scientists in New England
> investigate global warming's effect on the timing of spring. Thoreau
> carefully documented the dates the blueberry bushes bloomed.
>
> But even stronger evidence is a photo from May 30, 1868, of a
> cemetery in Lowell, Mass., that researchers were given as they
> tracked Thoreau's footsteps, visited area cemeteries and dug into
> historic records.
>
> In 1868 -- and it was not the coldest year on record in those days
> -- the trees were barren. In the photos, nothing is growing in the
> harsh New England spring.
>
> On the same date in 2005, Boston University biology professor
> Richard Primack took a picture of the same trees in the same place,
> using unusual limb shapes for verification. In this photo,
> everything is in bloom.
>
> [snip]
>
> Some of the best timing records in the nation are in Massachusetts
> and they show plants coming about seven to 10 days earlier in
> general than a century ago, Primack said. Birds, on the other hand,
> are arriving only a couple days earlier.
>
> [snip]
>
>--
>---------
>Richard A. Danca
>Newton, MA
>mailto:rdanca(AT)ix.netcom.com
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Subject: Date.
From: "Peter Trull" <petrull(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 20 Mar 2008 6:32am
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May 30, 1868, isn't even Spring, Biologically, it's summer! May 30 =
cannot be the correct date to have bare trees in Massachusetts. Consider =
that 21 days after that date, is the summer solstice, when days begin to =
get shorter........40 days after that date of bare trees, dowichers and =
godwits are on Monomoy migrating south. March 30, not May might be the =
correct month in question.
Peter Trull
Brewster, MA
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Subject: Tundra Swans Continue - Longmeadow
From: ERUTMAN(AT)aol.com
Date: 20 Mar 2008 7:52am
The 2 Tundra Swans found yesterday on West Road by Jim Cavanaugh were still
present this morning at 7:45PM. Also seen were numerous Pintails, Green-winged
Teal and Turkeys, several of which were displaying.
West Road is off of Longmeadow St. (Rte. 5). Turn onto Emerson, continue over
the RR tracks, follow the road which swings left and go to the end of the
paved road. The swans can be easily seen from the edge of the paved road.
Eileen Rutman
Springfield, MA
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Subject: Late springs
From: "Joseph T. Leverich" <terryleverich(AT)earthlink.net>
Date: 20 Mar 2008 11:14am
You may want to check out the description of the terrible winter of 1816
in New England. One can read about it at
http://www.hewitts.com/Hewitts_Home/The_Summer_that_Never_Was.html
Interesting facts from that year: the winter was long and late; the
trees leafed out in early June; and beginning on the 5th of June the
temperatures fells into the 40s. There were killing frosts on June 6th,
7th, 8th and 9th. The leaves on the trees froze, blackened and then
fell off. All the crops were killed. There was snow on the 6th and 7th
and sleet on the 8th. Standing water froze, and even the ground started
to freeze. There was frost again in July, and another killing frost in
August. This is an extremely well-documented event, notwithstanding the
various dogmas expressed recently on this subject. The hard freezes of
the summer of this year are traceable to the explosion of the volcano
Tamora, and the extremely late winter was presumably also traceable in
part to this eruption (in April). It is estimated that worldwide 92,000
people died --- principally of starvation. I am not able to identify
any unusual events in 1868 that might explain the photo, but I certainly
am not prepared to dismiss it out of hand.
Terry Leverich
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Joseph T Leverich
Boston, MA
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Subject: Spring Raven/Concord
From: Cherrie Corey <cherrie.corey(AT)verizon.net>
Date: 20 Mar 2008 11:35am
While checking the sap bucket on our maple tree, I heard some
flapping overhead and looked up to see a RAVEN taking off from a
branch just ten feet over my head. It did a slow flap and gliding
circle pattern in my yard so I could get a good look. No mistaking
its ID...very large (size of red-tailed hawk), glossy black, large
bill, long primaries, and familiar flight pattern. It continued to
flap and glide out to the field across the street making occasional
circles while I watched for another few minutes. The raven is a near
and dear bird friend for me. What a surprise and delight to have
this rare visit on the first day of spring.
Cherrie Corey
Concord, MA
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Subject: Re: FYI: Article on early spring arrival based on
old photo
From: Richard Danca <rdanca(AT)ix.netcom.com>
Date: 20 Mar 2008 11:38am
Please don't shoot the messenger!
I was only forwarding a reference to an article that seemed interesting
and relevant to birds in Massachusetts. Don't let me stop anyone from
following up! The professor is from BU; should be easy to find him and
his report.
Seems to me the main message is that plants *appear* to be advancing
faster because of climate change than the birds are. Does this mean that
at some point fruit-eating birds may arrive after the trees have
finished fruiting? Jeez. As if we didn't already have enough to worry
about with "our" birds depending on disappearing tropical forests when
it's winter here.
--
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Richard A. Danca
Newton, MA
mailto:rdanca(AT)ix.netcom.com
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Subject: Groton Birds 3/20
From: Tom Pirro <alurap(AT)verizon.net>
Date: 20 Mar 2008 12:22pm
Birds seen and/or heard durn my lunch break today:
Canada Goose 18
American Black Duck 1
American Black Duck x Mallard (hybrid) 1
Mallard 12
Wild Turkey 6
Great Blue Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 3
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Mourning Dove 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Hairy Woodpecker 2
Blue Jay 3
American Crow 16
Common Raven 1
Black-capped Chickadee 6
Tufted Titmouse 3
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
American Robin 15
Northern Mockingbird 4
European Starling 5
Cedar Waxwing 19
Fox Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 7
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 12
Northern Cardinal 4
Red-winged Blackbird 1
Common Grackle 6
Pine Grosbeak 1 lone female type
American Goldfinch 3
House Sparrow 15
and before work off Fitch Bridge Road in Groton:
Canada Goose 325
Wood Duck 15
American Black Duck 20
Mallard 250
American Black Duck X Mallard Hybrid 4
Northern Pintail 2
Killdeer 5
Ring-billed Gull 1
Mourning Dove 1
Northern Flicker 1
American Crow 20
Black-capped Chickadee 6
Tufted Titmouse 2
Eastern Bluebird 1
American Robin 12
Song Sparrow 3
Northern Cardinal 1
Red-winged Blackbird 25
American Goldfinch 2
Tom Pirro
Westminster, Ma.
http://tpirro.blogspot.com/
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Subject: Another Osprey sighting on Cape Cod
From: Ed <erfoster(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 20 Mar 2008 1:14pm
Around noon today I saw my first Osprey of the season, with a fish,
soaring over Rte. 28 just west of the Barnstable/Mashpee line. A
little later I spotted a kingfisher perched on a wire at the head of
Shoestring Bay.
Ed Foster
Cotuit, MA
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Subject: Birds are a time sink
From: KAWOLFTRAP(AT)aol.com
Date: 20 Mar 2008 1:34pm
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Well, birders, as you all know if you spend all your time watching
birds lots of other things don't get done. I have a small pond in
front of my house with a wood duck box and a barrel for nesting
and both have been used by Wood Ducks for many, many years.
This spring I have had a pair of Hooded Mergansers visiting the
pond, but today I've been able to get nothing done but watch the
pond. TWO pairs of beautiful Hooded Mergansers swimming about,
diving and apparently catching frogs to eat. Oh yes, and there
have been 5 male and 2 female Wood Ducks but they are playing
second fiddle this year to the Hoodies. Singing birds included
chickadees, Song Sparrow, Cardinal, Robin and Mourning Dove;
calling birds have included Redshouldered Hawk and flicker, and
then there are the usually Tufted Titmice, juncos, whitethroats,
goldfinches, nuthatches, downies, Carolina Wren and a pair of
Bluebirds. However, I'm not getting any chores done.
Despite the cool, cloudy dampness, can spring be far behind?
Kathleen S. Anderson
Wolf Trap Hill Farm
22 Winter Street
Middleboro, MA 02346
Tel.: 508-947-0218
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Subject: Longmeadow Tundra Swans
From: NEaton <nancyeaton(AT)sbcglobal.net>
Date: 20 Mar 2008 2:30pm
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2/20/08 The Tundra Swans reported yesterday and this morning in Longmeadow were
not present this afternoon (2 p.m.), nor were other waterfowl on Pondside Rd.
except for Ringneck Ducks. The changing weather is undoubtedly affecting these
birds. Observers north of Longmeadow might be on the lookout as they seem to be
moving up the Connecticut River Valley.
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Subject: John Kieran
From: Richard Marchant <rmarchant31(AT)verizon.net>
Date: 20 Mar 2008 2:30pm
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Massbirders,
Does anyone on this list remember birding with John Kieran, the famous
natural historian (among other things) who summered in Rockport and birded
Eastern Ma.?
The last 2 people from Rockport that I knew who'd birded with him, Larry
and Jerry, are no longer with us.
If any of you did, would you be willing to share your experiences?
Donna
Dick and Donna Marchant
Gloucester, MA
rmarchant31(AT)verizon.net
"If you think your dog can't count, put 3 treats in your pocket, and only give
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Subject: Pileated Woodpecker
From: Richard Marchant <rmarchant31(AT)verizon.net>
Date: 20 Mar 2008 3:42pm
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Hi,
There is a Pileated Woodpecker excavating what so far appears to be a round
hole in an Eastern White Pine in the empty lot which is 54 Woodward Ave. I've
forgotton which shape hole is which, the oblong one or the round one, for
feeding as opposed to nesting. Could someone please remind me?
Thanks
Donna
Dick and Donna Marchant
Gloucester, MA
rmarchant31(AT)verizon.net
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Subject: Braintree - 3/19 and 3/20
From: Barbara Volkle and Steve Moore <barb620(AT)theworld.com>
Date: 20 Mar 2008 3:48pm
Thanks to Paul Peterson for these reports from Braintree.
Today at Great Pond:
15 Canvasback
1 Lesser Black-backed Gull
31 Scaup sp.
3 Hooded Mergansers
15 Common Mergansers
15 Bufflehead
10 Common Goldeneye
2 Wood Duck
2 Mute Swans
3 Ring-necked Ducks
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1 Great Blue Heron
many mallards and black ducks
Yesterday at Sunset Lake:
4 Canvasbacks
1 American Coot
7 Scaup sp.
Barbara Volkle
Northboro, MA
barb620(AT)theworld.com
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Subject: RED-HEADED WOODPECKER -Wayland 3/20
From: "Bird Watcher's Supply & Gift" <birdwsg(AT)verizon.net>
Date: 20 Mar 2008 3:44pm
Paul Shaub called at 3:30pm to report an immature red-headed woodpecker on Water
Row in Wayland. The bird was seen tapping on a tree over the road by the
second beaver pond as you are heading NORTH on Water Row.
Steve Grinley
Bird Watcher's Supply & Gift and Nature Shop at Joppa Flats
Newburyport, MA
BirdWSG(AT)Verizon.net
978-462-0775
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Subject: Query, South Monomoy
From: "Peter Trull" <petrull(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 20 Mar 2008 3:52pm
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Hello massbirders
As a relative newcomer to massbird and having been reminded by Rick's =
records and then Marshall's and his offer to pull it all together, I =
thought of a long standing mystery and question from which all of the =
massbirders here might be able to help with.
In the late 1980s and early 90s I had a program through the Cape Cod =
Museum of Natural History running 26 hr. overnight birding and natural =
history tours to the newly restored South Monomoy Lighthouse keepers =
house. Those were good times with hours of birding and Nature study. =
Some of you joined me for those trips and you may remember the wooden =
covered journal we had that had the bird lists and participants. I know =
Sarah Whittum created some good records from the journal and Wayne P. =
joined me and co led, and also I think Dave C. was along on one also. =
Well, when the museum stopped the tours after I left, about 1991, the =
wood covered journal was never seen again. Perhaps someone from the =
USF&WS who is on line here would know, but I am just asking because I =
have asked everyone connected to the lighthouse back then because it had =
a few years worth of interesting records in it? It is a memento that =
might prove to be of some value to Marshall's efforts.
Peter Trull
Brewster, MA
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Subject: Southwick
From: "Scott Ricker" <ptbagger(AT)verizon.net>
Date: 20 Mar 2008 4:22pm
MassBirders,
I had the following on South pond off of Rt 168 this afternoon;
7-Ring-necked Duck 2f/5m
18-Green-winged Teal
25-Canada Geese
The open water in this area has expanded at least 3 fold since Monday. The
Teal were in a pretty tight group for most of the 45 minutes I watched them.
At one point they paraded onto the edge of the ice cover and picked at
stuff, and then all went back into the water and formed a tight group again.
The wind was moving around 20-30 mph which made it to shaky to scope the
Teal from outside my vehicle, so I was scoped them from in the truck which
wasn't very much better, I believe there were about 8-10 male Green-winged
Teal and the rest were females.
Scott Ricker
Southwick, MA.
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Subject: Canada Goose with white eyebrow in Watertown
From: Douglas Logan <dougsmassage(AT)yahoo.com>
Date: 20 Mar 2008 4:52pm
Greetings
Near the footbridge, above the dam on the charles
river was this Canada Goose with white eyebrows. I've
never seen this before.
http://gallery.mac.com/dougsmassage#100104
enjoy!
Doug Logan
dougsmassage(AT)yahoo.com
Watertown, MA
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Subject: Birds around Springfield, MA
From: casey322(AT)comcast.net (Chris Surprenant)
Date: 20 Mar 2008 5:10pm
Chris Patterson and I started at West rd. Longmeadow at 10am. We did see the
Tundra Swans, Pintails , Green-winged Teals and Wild Turkey. We then went onto
Pondside rd. and saw Mute Swans, Hooded Mergansers. Ring-necked Ducks,Female
Canvasback and a American Coot. We then went to Forest Park. Where we had a
Brown Creeper,Hooded Mergansers,a female Common Merganser, Ring-necked Ducks,
both male and female Canvasbacks. From there we went to Russelville rd. in
Hadley and got the Snow Geese amongest the thousands of Canada Geese.
Chris Surprenant
Springfield, MA
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Subject: Re: Late springs
From: Richard Heil <rsheil(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 20 Mar 2008 7:08pm
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Terry,
Regarding the "recently expressed dogmas", it was my understanding
that we were discussing a photo from Lowell, Massachusetts from the
year 1868, not 1816. The NY Times article gives the impression that
that season was not particularly unusual in regard to the weather:
"In 1868 -- and it was not the coldest year on record in those days
-- the trees were barren." This was clearly NOT the case in 1816,
which was perhaps the most meteorologically abnormal spring and
summer in the Northeast, and probably elsewhere, in recorded history,
apparently as a result of several different volcanoes erupting
between 1812-1815.
Yet even in 1816, in the most extremely anomalous weather ever
recorded here, it is unlikely trees had not leafed out by 30 May in
Massachusetts. The online article that you reference does not say
that the trees leafed out in June, it says "by early June the leaves
were out on the trees." It also doesn't say of where he is writing,
which is rather important to the issue at hand. Was he referring to
Vermont, Upstate NY, Quebec? At any rate the reference is unsourced.
The year 1816 was indeed the coldest in nearly 200 years of record
keeping at New Haven, CT; some 4.57 degrees F below the mean. Yet
even in that unprecedented cold and slow spring and summer trees in
Massachusetts would have been leafed out by 30 May. Far to our north
in Quebec, undoubtedly and invariably weeks behind us in vegetation
in the spring, 'The Quebec Gazette' on 30 May 1816 noted a much
welcomed warm front in this most unusual year that finally "gave a
new spring to vegetation", as forests finally burst into leaf ...
"the meadows and the pasture ground were in a deep verdure." During
6-7 June severe cold, frost and snow affected the Northeast region,
killing crops and the foliage, on already leafed out trees and
shrubs. Again, well to our north, the 'Brattleboro Reporter' at the
time states: "the forest trees assume the sickly hue of autumn" and
thus were obviously already in leaf, in northern Vermont, yet dying
from the hard prolonged frost. So, even in this most extreme and
unprecedented year of 1816, there is evidence in the accounts of the
time that trees were in leaf at the end of May in Quebec and in
northern VT, as they surely were even earlier in Massachusetts.
To return to 1868, an apparently unremarkable spring, it is very
unlikely, to say the least, that "nothing is growing" and "trees were
barren" in Lowell, Massachusetts on 30 May.
Richard S. Heil
S. Peabody, MA
rsheil(AT)comcast.net
At 11:23 AM 3/20/2008, Joseph T. Leverich wrote:
>You may want to check out the description of the terrible winter of
>1816 in New England. One can read about it at
>http://www.hewitts.com/Hewitts_Home/The_Summer_that_Never_Was.html
>Interesting facts from that year: the winter was long and late; the
>trees leafed out in early June; and beginning on the 5th of June the
>temperatures fells into the 40s. There were killing frosts on June
>6th, 7th, 8th and 9th. The leaves on the trees froze, blackened and
>then fell off. All the crops were killed. There was snow on the
>6th and 7th and sleet on the 8th. Standing water froze, and even
>the ground started to freeze. There was frost again in July, and
>another killing frost in August. This is an extremely
>well-documented event, notwithstanding the various dogmas expressed
>recently on this subject. The hard freezes of the summer of this
>year are traceable to the explosion of the volcano Tamora, and the
>extremely late winter was presumably also traceable in part to this
>eruption (in April). It is estimated that worldwide 92,000 people
>died --- principally of starvation. I am not able to identify any
>unusual events in 1868 that might explain the photo, but I certainly
>am not prepared to dismiss it out of hand.
>
>Terry Leverich
>
>--
>Joseph T Leverich
>Boston, MA
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Subject: Re: Late springs- Correction
From: Richard Heil <rsheil(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 20 Mar 2008 8:16pm
Brattleboro is in southern Vermont, not northern, as I stated. I was
thinking Burlington. My point is unaffected.
At 08:07 PM 3/20/2008, Richard Heil wrote:
>Terry,
>
>Regarding the "recently expressed dogmas", it was my understanding
>that we were discussing a photo from Lowell, Massachusetts from the
>year 1868, not 1816. The NY Times article gives the impression that
>that season was not particularly unusual in regard to the weather:
>"In 1868 -- and it was not the coldest year on record in those days
>-- the trees were barren." This was clearly NOT the case in 1816,
>which was perhaps the most meteorologically abnormal spring and
>summer in the Northeast, and probably elsewhere, in recorded
>history, apparently as a result of several different volcanoes
>erupting between 1812-1815.
>
>Yet even in 1816, in the most extremely anomalous weather ever
>recorded here, it is unlikely trees had not leafed out by 30 May in
>Massachusetts. The online article that you reference does not say
>that the trees leafed out in June, it says "by early June the leaves
>were out on the trees." It also doesn't say of where he is writing,
>which is rather important to the issue at hand. Was he referring to
>Vermont, Upstate NY, Quebec? At any rate the reference is unsourced.
>
>The year 1816 was indeed the coldest in nearly 200 years of record
>keeping at New Haven, CT; some 4.57 degrees F below the mean. Yet
>even in that unprecedented cold and slow spring and summer trees in
>Massachusetts would have been leafed out by 30 May. Far to our
>north in Quebec, undoubtedly and invariably weeks behind us in
>vegetation in the spring, 'The Quebec Gazette' on 30 May 1816 noted
>a much welcomed warm front in this most unusual year that finally
>"gave a new spring to vegetation", as forests finally burst into
>leaf ... "the meadows and the pasture ground were in a deep
>verdure." During 6-7 June severe cold, frost and snow affected the
>Northeast region, killing crops and the foliage, on already leafed
>out trees and shrubs. Again, well to our north, the 'Brattleboro
>Reporter' at the time states: "the forest trees assume the sickly
>hue of autumn" and thus were obviously already in leaf, in northern
>Vermont, yet dying from the hard prolonged frost. So, even in this
>most extreme and unprecedented year of 1816, there is evidence in
>the accounts of the time that trees were in leaf at the end of May
>in Quebec and in northern VT, as they surely were even earlier in
>Massachusetts.
>
>To return to 1868, an apparently unremarkable spring, it is very
>unlikely, to say the least, that "nothing is growing" and "trees
>were barren" in Lowell, Massachusetts on 30 May.
>
>Richard S. Heil
>S. Peabody, MA
>rsheil(AT)comcast.net
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>At 11:23 AM 3/20/2008, Joseph T. Leverich wrote:
>>You may want to check out the description of the terrible winter of
>>1816 in New England. One can read about it at
>>http://www.hewitts.com/Hewitts_Home/The_Summer_that_Never_Was.html
>>Interesting facts from that year: the winter was long and late; the
>>trees leafed out in early June; and beginning on the 5th of June
>>the temperatures fells into the 40s. There were killing frosts on
>>June 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th. The leaves on the trees froze,
>>blackened and then fell off. All the crops were killed. There was
>>snow on the 6th and 7th and sleet on the 8th. Standing water
>>froze, and even the ground started to freeze. There was frost
>>again in July, and another killing frost in August. This is an
>>extremely well-documented event, notwithstanding the various dogmas
>>expressed recently on this subject. The hard freezes of the summer
>>of this year are traceable to the explosion of the volcano Tamora,
>>and the extremely late winter was presumably also traceable in part
>>to this eruption (in April). It is estimated that worldwide 92,000
>>people died --- principally of starvation. I am not able to
>>identify any unusual events in 1868 that might explain the photo,
>>but I certainly am not prepared to dismiss it out of hand.
>>
>>Terry Leverich
>>
>>--
>>Joseph T Leverich
>>Boston, MA
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Subject: CT Report 03/20/2008
From: Roy Harvey <rmharvey(AT)snet.net>
Date: 20 Mar 2008 8:50pm
From Steve Morytko:
3/20 - Ashford, Wormwood Hill Rd, Leander Pond (below Random Farm) --
juvenile Northern Shrike in the top of a tree next to the pond.
Ashford, 288 Varga Rd -- The Red-headed Woodpecker continues.
From Dennis Varza:
3/20 - Stamford, Holly Pond -- The Black-headed Gull (along with the
Bonaparte's) was still at Holly Pond at 3:30.
From Dennis Varza:
3/20 - Stamford, Holly Pond, area of the little parking lot on the
west side -- 350 Bonaparte's Gulls (3 imm.) roosting on the water and
even on the little grassy area. Because of the stream flow and the
north wind the birds kept drifting down stream, then flying back
upstream. In the flock was an adult Black-headed Gull with a nearly
complete black head.
From Andrew Dasinger:
3/19 - East Hartford, near Cabela's -- 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull (3rd
yr) and 1 possible CALIFORNIA Gull (near adult). In a mixed flock of
gulls congregating in a wet field, between Cabela's and United
Technologies Research Center. Viewed from rear parking lot and
perimeter driveway of United Technologies Research Center. Gull
activity had tailed off in the last few days as puddles dried up, but
the heavy rains yesterday brought in a flock that built up to around
150+ gulls in the late afternoon. (When I arrived in the morning,
there were zero gulls, so afternoon is definitely the time to look.)
3/20 - East Hartford, near Cabela's -- there were NO gulls present
(5:30 pm), so yesterday's flock must have been a result of the stormy
weather.
From Ralph Amodei
3/20 - Bridgeport, Seaside Park Pond - 1 Drake EURASIAN WIGEON
From Lorraine Gundersen:
3/20 - Guilford, Pinchbeck Gardens, Marsh area leading to greenhouse
-- American Bittern (1)
From Dave Rosgen:
3/20 - Litchfield, 71 White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Office Feeders)
-- 1 Common Redpoll
From Don Morgan:
3/20 - ?????, Natchaug State Forest Beaver Dam Marsh -- 4 apparent
Tundra Swans.
From Paul DeGennaro:
3/20 - Naugatuck yard -- one Fox Sparrow.
From Ken Elkins:
3/20 - Milford, Milford Point -- 6 NORTHERN PINTAILS.
From Phil Asprelli:
3/20 - New Haven, East Rock Park -- American Woodcock
From Jan Collins:
3/19 - Somers Backyard -- 1 BROWN CREEPER on suet feeder
From Dave Rosgen:
3/19 - Winchester: 121 Laurel Way (Rosgen Wildlife Sanctuary feeders)
-- 2 Purple Finches
3/20 - Litchfield, Rt. 202 (Litchfield Hills Nursery) -- 1 Common
Raven flyover
White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Area) - 8 Rusty Blackbirds
From Dave Rosgen:
3/18 - Litchfield, White Hall Rd. (White Memorial's Museum Feeders) --
1 Fox Sparrow
From Maryanne & Dean Rupp:
3/17 - Westbrook, Salt Meadow Unit -- 7-7:30 PM, 8+ AMERICAN WOODCOCK
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