B-Mail(sm): MASSBIRD for Sat, 3 May 2008

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Subject: Ashburnham 5/3
From: caronenv(AT)aol.com
Date: 3 May 2008 9:36am

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Location:     BBA Ashburnham 2 (and a few minutes in Ashburnham 1)
Observation date:     5/3/08 (0515-0845)
Number of species:     38
(Miserable weather for May- Many species conspicuously absent- i.e. Phoebe)

Canada Goose     3
Wood Duck     6 (P)
Mallard     13 (P)
Double-crested Cormorant     1
Great Blue Heron     1
Northern Harrier     1 (hunting over a bog just outside of the block)
Virginia Rail     1
Mourning Dove     11
Belted Kingfisher     1
Downy Woodpecker     2 (P)
Hairy Woodpecker     1
Blue-headed Vireo     9
Blue Jay     28
American Crow     5
Tree Swallow     4
Black-capped Chickadee     56
Tufted Titmouse     4
White-breasted Nuthatch     1
Brown Creeper     3
Winter Wren     1
Hermit Thrush     4
American Robin     41 (A)
European Starling     8
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)     29
Black-throated Green Warbler     1
Pine Warbler     2
Palm Warbler     3
Northern Waterthrush     2
Chipping Sparrow     13
Song Sparrow     5
Swamp Sparrow     8
White-throated Sparrow     7
Northern Cardinal     5 (CN)
Red-winged Blackbird     13
Common Grackle     15 (CN)
Purple Finch     3
American Goldfinch     7
Evening Grosbeak     28

Submitted by 
Charles Caron
Westminster, MA

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Subject: pair of ravens & turkeys, Carlisle
From: "Tom Brownrigg" <brownriggs(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 3 May 2008 10:50am

At 6:15 AM today I heard turkeys gobbling in our neighbor's yard to the
south.  I opened a door to listen, and saw a raven flying north carrying an
object in its beak - it looked like a large nut, but it might have been an
egg.  A few minutes later I saw a raven fly into our neighbor's locust tree
to the north - it was soon joined by a second raven that perched about a
foot away.  The pair sat close together facing each other for several
minutes; one sometimes made a "hoo" call like an owl. They flew to the
southwest while calling at 6:30 AM. 

We have been seeing ravens around our house fairly regularly this spring.

Tom

J. Thomas Brownrigg
Carlisle, MA 01741

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Subject: Common Terns - Turners Falls
From: "Mark Fairbrother" <bogelfin(AT)crocker.com>
Date: 3 May 2008 11:46am

There are five terns that I am ASSUMING are Common Terns sitting on tire
buoys at Barton Cove in Turners Falls.  I have other commitments this
afternoon and cannot confirm the ID.  If anyone else can drop by to have a
look that would be productive.

Mark Fairbrother
Montague, MA 01351

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Subject: Orioles, rose-breasted grosbeak, catbird, raven
From: Bonnie & Bob Buxton <bbxt(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 3 May 2008 11:53am

Lots of activity in our yard this morning!  Orioles, catbird, rose-breasted 
grosbeak all returned within the past few days, and a beautiful raven was 
perched in a tree at the edge of our property today, vocalizing a bit, then 
briefly landing on the ground but chased away by grackles.  Also a nice 
surprise, a red-breasted nuthatch ( very unusual for our yard ) has 
returned to our feeders after an absence of a few months.  A white-breasted 
nuthatch pair has claimed one of our birdhouses, and they've been very busy 
this morning with their nest-building duties.

Spring is wonderful!

Bonnie and Bob Buxton
Merrimac, MA
bbxt(at)comcast.net

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Subject: Grasshopper Sparrow, Millennium Park
From: "Stuart Walker" <stuarttwalker(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 3 May 2008 11:51am

Sorry for the late post, but this Bigby thing means longer distances between 
the field and the computer!

Millennium Park, West Roxbury, 8-10 AM

GRASSHOPPER SPARROW, 8:15 AM, along the grass access road that briefly 
parallels the paved road to the canoe launch.  It was mostly in the road but 
sometimes just into the woods and sometimes just into the grass on the park 
side.  It was beautifully marked and although I couldn't get close to it the 
eye ring, back streaking and crown stripe were clear and strong.

Also along this road a male and female Orchard Oriole exploring the trees 
near the cattails.  Otherwise:

Killdeer - 1 in the drainage ditch leading to the canoe launch
Bluebird - 1 male whose red went nearly all the way around his head like a 
collar (High School side)
Savannah, White-throat, and Song Sparrows
Yellow Warblers - many in the woods along the river
Warbling Vireos - likewise
Rough-winged (2), Barn (1) and Tree (1-2) Swallows skimming the river in a 
loose group
Blue-grey Gnatcatcher - 1 in the river woods, an area where they are known 
to nest.
Downy Woodpeckers - a pair actively courting/copulating
Cedar Waxwing - 1 along the river path
Cowbirds - a few pairs
Chickadees - several pairs
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 flyover

Stuart Walker
Jamaica Plain
stuarttwalker(AT)comcast.net

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Subject: Tri-colored Herons PI-5/3
From: "Bird Watcher's Supply & Gift" <birdwsg(AT)verizon.net>
Date: 3 May 2008 12:43pm

Margo Goetschkes called at 12:30 to report that she relocated the 2 tri-colored
herons, north of the Warden's.  They are hunkered down in the marsh, close to
the edge of the marsh closest to the road.

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: Nahant- 5/2/08
From: Linda Pivacek <lpivacek(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 3 May 2008 1:15pm

Nahant Mass Audubon Thicket area

Highlights:

White-eyed Vireo  1   singing only occasionally

Northern Waterthrush 3  

Parula Warbler  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler  4

RC Kinglet  3

Carolina Wren  2

Hermit Thrush  2

Gray Catbird  1

RS Towhee  1

WT Sparrow 12

Linda Pivacek
Nahant

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Subject: Newbury First Hummer
From: dorothy saffarewich <dsaffarewich(AT)yahoo.com>
Date: 3 May 2008 1:12pm

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Subject: WHITE-FACED IBIS, Cattle Egret 5/3
From: "Bird Watcher's Supply & Gift" <birdwsg(AT)verizon.net>
Date: 3 May 2008 2:12pm

Dave Larson called at 2pm.  He and Wayne Petersen are leading a trip for the
Birder's Certicicate Program and have found a WHITE-Faced Ibis on Scotland Rd in
 Newbury, MA.  It was in with glossy ibis in the first field on the left when
travelling from Rt 95.
They also had 2 Cattle Egret on Parker St.in Newburyport, in with the cows
across from the Oak Hill Cemetery.

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: Pacific Loon - Ptown (5/3)
From: Blair Nikula <odenews(AT)odenews.org>
Date: 3 May 2008 3:32pm

There was a handsome, breeding plumaged Pacific Loon close (50 yards 
or less) to the beach at Herring Cove in Provincetown this morning - 
one of the best looks I've ever had of this species anywhere!  A 
couple of photos at: http://www.capecodbirds.org/PALO_Ptown0508.htm

Blair Nikula

2 Gilbert Lane
Harwich Port, MA 02646
USA
mailto:odenews(AT)odenews.org
web site: http://www.odenews.org/

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Subject: Parker River NWR on bike & Phalarope
From: <winterwren2(AT)verizon.net>
Date: 3 May 2008 3:56pm

Location:     Parker River National Wildlife Refuge
Observation date:     5/2/08
Notes:birding PRNWR on bike, John Nelson and I joined Mark Burns & Laura Dela 
Flor (leaders)for their birding by bike trip, cold temps overcast, sparse 
birding managed a few year birds-White-crowned Sparrow, Willet ,N. Parula, 
Great Horned Owl still on nest
Canada Goose     X
Mute Swan     6
Gadwall     X
Mallard     X
Green-winged Teal     5
Red-breasted Merganser     1
Common Loon     12
Double-crested Cormorant     2
Great Egret     6
Snowy Egret     2
Osprey     2
Northern Harrier     1
American Kestrel     2
Merlin     1
Peregrine Falcon     1
Killdeer     3
Greater Yellowlegs     6
Willet     2
Mourning Dove     X
Great Horned Owl     1
American Crow     6
Tree Swallow     30
Northern Rough-winged Swallow     X
Barn Swallow     2
Black-capped Chickadee     X
American Robin     X
Northern Mockingbird     2
Brown Thrasher     8
Northern Parula     1
Eastern Towhee     12
Chipping Sparrow     X
Savannah Sparrow     X
Song Sparrow     X
White-throated Sparrow     X
White-crowned Sparrow     1
Northern Cardinal     X
Red-winged Blackbird     X
Eastern Meadowlark     2
Common Grackle     X
Brown-headed Cowbird     X
Purple Finch     2
American Goldfinch     X
Location:Rowley--Pikul's Farm Observation date:5/2/08
Notes: Pair of Wilson's Phalarope in the ususal spot just north of 
Pikul's Farm on 1A , a brief stop on the way home after PRNWR in the AM, 
turkey and hawk seen on roads along the way
Number of species:     7

Green-winged Teal     3
Wild Turkey     1
Glossy Ibis     6
Red-tailed Hawk     1
Greater Yellowlegs     2
Wilson's Phalarope     2
Belted Kingfisher     1
I was glad to get out this morning, as the weekend seems to be downhill from 
here in the weather department.

winterwren2(AT)verizon.net 
Susan Hedman, Gloucester
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."  Frank Lloyd Wright

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Subject: Uxbridge - 5/3/08
From: "John Liller" <John.Liller(AT)worcesteracademy.org>
Date: 3 May 2008 3:52pm

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This morning, we did some atlasing in UXBRIDGE 7, with stops at River Bend
Farm, Rice City Pond, and West Hill Dam/Park.  Here is what we recorded:

Canada Goose (1 - Rice City Pond)
Mute Swan (pair - Rice City Pond; definite courtship behavior)
Wood Duck (4 - West Hill; pair - River Bend; the latter were sitting near
each other on a tree limb, with some display.  The female then took off
and the male followed her.  They continued to circle the area together for
several minutes before alighting on adjacent branches.)
Mallard (several males)
Great Blue Heron (1 - River Bend)
Red-tailed Hawk (1 adult - River Bend)
Killdeer (1 - River Bend)
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher (1 - River Bend)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (pair - River Bend)
Downy Woodpecker (1 - River Bend)
Northern Flicker (1 - River Bend)
Eastern Phoebe (2 - River Bend, including one going under a bridge)
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren (2 - River Bend)
House Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (1 - singing at River Bend)
Eastern Bluebird (2 pairs - West Hill)
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird (pair - River Bend)
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing (14 - River Bend; in a flock)
Yellow Warbler (6 - River Bend; 1 - West Hill)
Chestnut-sided Warbler (1 - River Bend)
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler (3 - West Hill)
Pine Warbler (several at both River Bend, including female collecting
material, and West Hill)
Ovenbird (1 - West Hill)
Northern Waterthrush (1 or 2 - West Hill)
Common Yellowthroat (2 - River Bend)
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow (including several pairs)
Field Sparrow (1 at River Bend, pair at West Hill)
Savannah Sparrow (pair(?) at West Hill)
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow (1 at River Bend)
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird (including female collecting material at Rice City
Pond)
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Purple Finch (female at West Hill)
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

John Liller, Kim Kastler, Jeremy Cole

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Grafton, MA
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Subject: Late Junco & more
From: winterwren2(AT)verizon.net
Date: 3 May 2008 4:06pm

Bond St. Gloucester 01930 
Observation date:     5/1/08
Notes:  surprised to see a single Junco by the feeder this afternoon
Dark-eyed Junco     1
in Manchester-
Pileated Woodpecker drumming near school and House Wren a new local arrival.

winterwren2(AT)verizon.net 
Susan Hedman, Gloucester
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."  Frank Lloyd Wright

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Subject: BBC Trip on Bike 05/03/08
From: <anhinga(AT)verizon.net>
Date: 3 May 2008 4:22pm

Hello MassBirders -

This morning, Mark Burns and I led a birding by bike trip for the Brookline
Bird Club at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge.  Jane Zanichkowsky,
Susan Hedman, and John Nelson joined us at 6:30AM at Parking Lot #1 and we
birded our way south to the Pines Trail and back over a 4 hour period.  This
was the dankest day we have had for this annual birding by bike trip with
temperatures never going above 47 df, winds blowing between 5-15 mph,
periods of light drizzle, and not a ray of sunshine to be found.  But we had
fun anyway!  We tallied 47 species for the Club list.

There were several highlights for the morning but notables included seeing:
one MERLIN at the Parking Lot #1 boat ramp who kept us company as we
repaired a bike chain, 13 COMMON LOONS flying overhead,  one NORTHERN PARULA
near the Hellcat Observation Tower - our only warbler for the day,  hundreds
of SWALLOWS at Bill Forward Pool, two AMERICAN KESTREL and three OSPREY at
the Pines Trail, several BROWN THRASHERS and EASTERN TOWHEES along the main
refuge road.

Following is a complete list of the birds we saw:

Common Loon - 20
Double-crested Cormorant - 8
Great Egret -9
Snowy Egret - 1
Canada Goose - 30
Mute Swan - 7
Gadwall - 6
American Black Duck - 4
Mallard - 12
Green-winged Teal - 2
Red-breasted Merganser - 1
Osprey - 3
Northern Harrier - 1
American Kestrel - 2
Merlin - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1
Killdeer - 4
Greater Yellowlegs - 3
Willet - 6
Herring Gull - 6
Great Black-backed Gull - 2
Rock Pigeon - 2
Mourning Dove - 5
Great Horned Owl - 1
American Crow - 10
Purple Martin - 1
Tree Swallow - 60
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2
Bank Swallow - 40
Black-capped Chickadee - 1
American Robin - 29
Northern Mockingbird - 8
Brown Thrasher - 9

WARBLER: Northern Parula - 1 - can you believe it ... one lone warbler for
the entire trip!

Chipping Sparrow - 3,
Savannah Sparrow - 12,
Song Sparrow - 20,
White-throated Sparrow - 3,
White-crowned Sparrow - 1
Eastern Towhee - 22
Northern Cardinal - 2
Red-winged Blackbird -200
Eastern Meadowlark - 2
Common Grackle - 230
Brown-headed Cowbird - 7
Purple Finch - 2
American Goldfinch - 12

May Daze have begun - Happy Migration!

Laura H. de la Flor
Salem, MA
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"Too Many Birds ... Too Little Time" (Bumper sticker)

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Subject: RUFF - Rowley, MA 5/3
From: "Bird Watcher's Supply & Gift" <birdwsg(AT)verizon.net>
Date: 3 May 2008 4:38pm

Patty O'Neil reported a ruff (male) around 3-4pm. from Stilt Pond along Old
Rowley Road/ Red Gate Rd in Rowley.  The bird was apparently found by Paul
Peterson.  It is associating with about a dozen yellowlegs.

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: White-faced IbisES on Scotland Road, Newbury
From: "David Larson" <redpoll(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 3 May 2008 5:02pm

Turns out that Wayne Petersen was showing some of our Birder's Certificate
students
one White-faced Ibis while I was showing the rest the other one. We only figured
 this
out afterwards. Go figure.

David Larson
Bradford, MA
mailto:redpoll(AT)comcast.net
http://www.larsonweb.org
"The classification of living birds, or, for that matter, any other large group
of
animals, is full of hopeless difficulties and insoluble problems." Ludlow
Griscom

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Subject: Re: Common Terns - Turners Falls
From: Richard Heil <rsheil(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 3 May 2008 6:26pm

Mark,

Don't assume that these are Common Terns although they may 
be.  However, migrating Arctic Terns are equally, if not more likely, 
being 'grounded' by the inclement weather.  There are a number of 
inland Massachusetts records of Arctic Terns in May during rainstorms.

Richard S. Heil
S. Peabody, MA
rsheil(AT)comcast.net

At 11:43 AM 5/3/2008, Mark Fairbrother wrote:
>There are five terns that I am ASSUMING are Common Terns sitting on tire
>buoys at Barton Cove in Turners Falls.  I have other commitments this
>afternoon and cannot confirm the ID.  If anyone else can drop by to have a
>look that would be productive.
>
>Mark Fairbrother
>Montague, MA 01351

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Subject: Beech Forest - 5/3
From: Blair Nikula <odenews(AT)odenews.org>
Date: 3 May 2008 6:34pm

Despite, or perhaps because of (who knows!), the miserable, 
all-too-typical spring weather today, there were a few birds in the 
Beech Forest (Provincetown) this morning.  Some of the highlights 
recorded by Sharon Riley and me, joined for part of the time by a 
small group from the Cape Cod Bird Club (0705 - 0930 hrs.):

2 Wood Ducks
1 Sharp-shinned Hawk
1 Fish Crow
8 Red-breasted Nuthatches
6 Ruby-crowned Kinglets
2 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers
1 Brown Thrasher
1 White-eyed Vireo
20 Yellow-rumped Warblers
2 Black-throated Green Warblers
6 Pine Warblers
1 Black-and-white Warbler
1 WORM-EATING WARBLER
1 Northern Waterthrush
60 White-throated Sparrows
1 Dark-eyed Junco
15 Purple Finches (most in one flock - the largest flock of this 
species I've seen in some time)

Blair Nikula

2 Gilbert Lane
Harwich Port, MA 02646
USA
mailto:odenews(AT)odenews.org
web site: http://www.odenews.org/

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Subject: Spencer and Quabbin altasing 5/3
From: "Mark Lynch" <moa.lynch(AT)verizon.net>
Date: 3 May 2008 6:05pm

Today we atlased in three blocks: one in SPENCER (North Brookfield 12) and
two adjacent blocks in Quabbin (Shutesbury 10 and Barre 1). The weather was
cool, wet and raw, with periodic showers. Temps didn�t get above 42. Turkey
hunters were out in force, but not IN Quabbin.
SPENCER (2 hours):
Great Blue Heron (3)
Canada Goose (5: including birds on nests)
Wood Duck (pair)
Mallard (3)
Hooded Merganser (1f)
Sharp-shinned Hawk (1 carrying small bird to copse of pines)
Wild Turkey (7)
Rock Dove (5)
Mourning Dove (20)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (1)
Downy Woodpecker (8)
Hairy Woodpecker (5)
N Flicker (5: pair seen copulating and displaying)
Eastern Phoebe (2)
Blue-headed Vireo (1)
Blue Jay (33)
A Crow (4)
Black-capped Chickadee (31)
Tufted Titmouse (18)
White-breasted Nuthatch (5: including a bird carrying food to a nest hole)
Carolina Wren (1)
Winter Wren (1)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (2)
Eastern Bluebird (pair)
A Robin (69)
Gray Catbird (1)
N Mockingbird (4)
Brown Thrasher (2)
E Starling (51)
Yellow Warbler (1)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (3)
Black-throated Green Warbler (1)
Pine Warbler (8)
Louisiana Waterthrush (2)
Eastern Towhee (5)
Chipping Sparrow (52)
Field Sparrow (5)
Savannah Sparrow (4)
Song Sparrow (23)
Swamp Sparrow (8)
White-throated Sparrow (9)
N Cardinal (12)
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (2m)
Bobolink (1m)
Red-winged Blackbird (112)
Common Grackle (53)
Brown-headed Cowbird (21)
House Finch (4)
A Goldfinch (18)
House Sparrow (43)

AT QUABBIN: we birded from Gate 37 to Gate 35 (3 hours). The total list:
Common Loon (14: 2 adult loons were keeping close company with a rather
small immature plumaged loon. Young from last year? Unlikely. According to
the Birds Of North America On-line, adult loons typically leave the young of
the year and migrate out before hand)
Double-crested Cormorant (1)
Great Blue Heron (3)
Turkey Vulture (5: including a pair doing the �follow flight� performed
between mated pairs on nesting territory)
Canada Goose (4: 2 nests)
Wood Duck (6m)
Mallard (4)
LONG-TAILED DUCK (1m)
Hooded Merganser (1m)
Common Merganser (4: known breeder in this location)
Osprey (1)
Bald Eagle (3ad)
Red-tailed Hawk (pair)
Wild Turkey (1)
Spotted Sandpiper (2)
Barred Owl (1)
N Saw-whet Owl (1)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (2)
Hairy Woodpecker (1)
N Flicker (2)
Pileated Woodpecker (3)
Eastern Phoebe (1 on nest)
Blue-headed Vireo (7)
Blue Jay (6)
A Crow (4)
Tree Swallow (32)
Barn Swallow (40+: migrants low over Quabbin)
Black-capped Chickadee (17)
Brown Creeper (1)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (2)
A Robin (6)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (137)
Black-throated Green Warbler (16)
Pine Warbler (12: nest building observed)
Black and White Warbler (2)
Northern Waterthrush (1)
Eastern Towhee (4)
Chipping Sparrow (16)
Song Sparrow (1)
Red-winged Blackbird (10)
C Grackle (2)
Purple Finch (2)
PINE SISKIN (3)
A Goldfinch (3)
Evening Grosbeak (4)

Mark Lynch/Sheila Carroll
Moa.lynch(AT)verizon.net
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Subject: FW: eBird Report - Bolton Flats WMA , 5/3/08
From: "S Sutton" <bookwarbler2(AT)msn.com>
Date: 3 May 2008 7:10pm

A short check of the main fields at Bolton Flats today turned up a good 
number of waders. Full report below.

>Location:     Bolton Flats WMA
>Observation date:     5/3/08
>Notes:     Entrance 3 only (fields just N of Rte 117). 2:05-3:05 PM, 44 
>degrees F, some drizzling & wind.
>Number of species:     31
>
>Canada Goose     12
>Wood Duck     2
>Mallard     14
>Green-winged Teal (American)     2
>Accipiter sp.     1
>American Kestrel     1
>Killdeer     4
>Greater Yellowlegs     31
>Lesser Yellowlegs     5
>Least Sandpiper     4
>Wilson's Snipe     18
>Ring-billed Gull     52
>Downy Woodpecker     2
>Hairy Woodpecker     1
>American Crow     4
>Tree Swallow     5
>Barn Swallow     1
>swallow sp.     10
>Black-capped Chickadee     2
>Tufted Titmouse     1
>White-breasted Nuthatch     1
>Blue-gray Gnatcatcher     1
>American Robin     3
>Yellow-rumped Warbler     1
>Song Sparrow     2
>Swamp Sparrow     4
>Northern Cardinal     1
>Red-winged Blackbird     15
>Common Grackle     1
>Brown-headed Cowbird     1
>American Goldfinch     1
>
>This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

Steven Sutton, Lancaster
bookwarbler2(AT)msn.com

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Subject: Pikul's  Pans Rowley  5/3
From: Linda Ferraresso <tattler1(AT)verizon.net>
Date: 3 May 2008 8:15pm

There was a nice assortment of birds at the Pans north of Pikul's Farm 
around 11 this morning including:

Green-winged Teal 8
Glossy Ibis 13
Greater Yellowlegs 1 (across the street)
Lesser Yellowlegs 8
Willet 2
Wilson's Phalarope 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
Savannah Sparrow 1

Ciao,
Linda

-- 
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: Mt Auburn Cemetery 5/3
From: Linda Ferraresso <tattler1(AT)verizon.net>
Date: 3 May 2008 8:08pm

22 birders joined Pam Perry and I at Mount Auburn Cemetery from 6 - 9 
a.m. this a.m. It was 47 degrees, dark, dank but we found our share of 
birds. We crossed paths with many other birding groups who may have 
other birds to report.

Double Crested Cormorant 3
Canada Goose 6
American Black Duck 1
Mallard 2
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Herring Gull 3
Mourning Dove 10
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker 2
Eastern Phoebe 2
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 5
American Crow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 5
Tufted Titmouse 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Carolina Wren 2
House Wren 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 7
Hermit Thrush 6
American Robin 35
Gray Catbird 2 (1 carry nesting material)
European Starling 3
Cedar Waxwing 13
Nashville Warbler 2
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 4
Pine Warbler 3
Black-and-white Warbler 6
Northern Waterthrush 1 (Auburn Lake - east side of the south pond)
Chipping Sparrow 9
Song Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 15
Northern Cardinal 5
Red-winged Blackbird 11
Common Grackle 32
Brown-headed Cowbird 5
Orchard Oriole 1 (Lime Ave in the flowering trees)
Baltimore Oriole 3
American Goldfinch 3
House Sparrow 5

Happy Spring!

Linda

-- 
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: local birding- along Nashua River
From: "Erik Stromsted" <siskin(AT)charter.net>
Date: 3 May 2008 8:32pm

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Apr 31 & May 2 Gardner Farm=3DPepperell, adj to Nashua River, cold and=20
windy-upper 40's, overcast with rain showers.

Canada Goose-30 some nesting on islands.
Double-Crested Cormorant -4 resting on floating log in river
M Swan-3
Great Blue Heron-1
Wood Duck-4, 4 swimming in pairs inner estuary
Mallard 10
Killdeer-4
Tree Swallow-~750 on May 2-hundreds swarming  a few feet above river, =
large=20
numbers over a 1000 ft river area shore to shore evidently swallowing =
small=20
flying insects, There were also a few barn Swallows and possibly Cliff=20
Swallows as well. All continuosly criss-crossing making identification=20
difficult.Essentially none over the adjacent fields.
Robin-~50  all over fields in small numbers
Bluebird-4
Crow-~25
Savannah Sparrow-4 small numbers found together in cornfield stubble ,=20
running about in furrows,yellow facial and crown markings ,thin stripes =
on=20
chest and flanks,  notched tails. no other sparrows observed.
Red-Winged Blackbird-30 most in swampy areas

Home feeder
Downy, Hairy , Red-Bellied Woodpeckers  picking at suet
White -Throated Sparrow. 4 -eating seeds below feeders
Goldfinch ~20 eating thistle seeds

Pond off Lawrence St, N. Pepperell 2pm Apr 31

N. Osprey-seen over pond.
Wood Duck- 2 pairs
Mallard- 1 pair=20

Erik Stromsted
Pepperell, Ma
Siskin(AT)charter.net
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Subject: Re: local birding- along Nashua River
From: "Erik Stromsted" <siskin(AT)charter.net>
Date: 3 May 2008 8:36pm

To: Massbird
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 8:30 PM
Subject: local birding- along Nashua River

Apr 31 & May 2 Gardner Farm=Pepperell, adj to Nashua River, cold and
windy-upper 40's, overcast with rain showers.

Canada Goose-30 some nesting on islands.
Double-Crested Cormorant -4 resting on floating log in river
M Swan-3
Great Blue Heron-1
Wood Duck-4, 4 swimming in pairs inner estuary
Mallard 10
Killdeer-4
Tree Swallow-~750 on May 2-hundreds swarming  a few feet above river, large
numbers over a 1000 ft river area shore to shore evidently swallowing small
flying insects, There were also a few barn Swallows and possibly Cliff
Swallows as well. All continuosly criss-crossing making identification
difficult.Essentially none over the adjacent fields.
Robin-~50  all over fields in small numbers
Bluebird-4
Crow-~25
Savannah Sparrow-4 small numbers found together in cornfield stubble ,
running about in furrows,yellow facial and crown markings ,thin stripes on
chest and flanks,  notched tails. no other sparrows observed.
Red-Winged Blackbird-30 most in swampy areas

Home feeder
Downy, Hairy , Red-Bellied Woodpeckers  picking at suet
White -Throated Sparrow. 4 -eating seeds below feeders
Goldfinch ~20 eating thistle seeds

Pond off Lawrence St, N. Pepperell 2pm Apr 31

N. Osprey-seen over pond.
Wood Duck- 2 pairs
Mallard- 1 pair

Erik Stromsted
Pepperell, Ma
Siskin(AT)charter.net

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Subject: ipswich 12
From: derek brown <devananga(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 3 May 2008 9:22pm

Doing some Ipswich 12 atlasing this morning we watched  a sedentary  
broad winged hawk near the ipswich line,   which was possibly the same 
bird seen last week  building a nest, later abandoned, next to belcher 
st.    At dusk, in the southern part of  I 12 there was a pair of 
hunting kestrels.

derek brown and april manganiello
conomo point road
essex

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Subject: CT Report 05/03/2008 Ruff, Harlequin
From: Roy Harvey <rmharvey(AT)snet.net>
Date: 3 May 2008 9:30pm

 From Penny Solum and Tina Green:
5/03 - Westport, Grace Salmon Park -- The RUFF was observed on the mud
flats at 2:15PM, feeding near several Greater Yellow Legs.

 From Meredith Sampson:
5/03 - Old Greenwich, Greenwich Point -- HARLEQUIN DUCK, BROWN
THRASHER, 3 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS.

 From Hank Golet
5/03 - Lyme, Pleasent Valley -- CERULEAN WARBLER, (3 locations).
Route 156, Before Ely's Ferry Rd -- HOODED WARBLER.

 From Paul Cianfaglione:
5/03 - Windsor, Bradley International Airport -- 2 UPLAND SANDPIPER, 4
EASTERN MEADOWLARK, 9 AMERICAN PIPIT.
5/03 - South Windsor, Strong Road -- 4 BLUE-WINGED TEAL, 14 WILSON'S
SNIPE, 2 CLIFF SWALLOW, 1 BOBOLINK.
5/02 - Simsbury, Iron Horse Blvd. -- 2 VIRGINIA RAIL.
5/01 - Canton, Canton Yard -- 1 AMERICAN WOODCOCK.

 From Jerry Connolly and The Audubon Shop Saturday Birdwalk:
5/03 - Hammonasset State Park -- BLUE-WINGED TEAL (pair), BOBOLINK
(male), BOAT-TAILED GRACKLE (pair).

 From Donna-Rose Smith & NVAS plus others:
5/03 - Southbury, Bent of the River -- 9 warbler species;
White-crowned Sparrow.
 From: Donna-Rose Smith
5/03 - Woodbury, Woodlake -- Blackburnian Warbler.

 From Greg Hanisek:
5/03 - Sandbank Road -- SOLITARY SANDPIPER

 From Rob Ballinger, Anita Shaffer, Roy Zartarian:
5/03 - Newington, Churchill Park Nature Trail -- AMERICAN WOODCOCK
5/03 - Newington, Young Farm -- COMMON SNIPE, PURPLE FINCH, BOBOLINK

 From Bill Banks & NHBC group:
5/03 - New Haven, East Rock Park -- Orchard Oriole

 From Jay & Margaret Drew:
5/(02 or 03?) - ?????, Rocky Neck, from the observation deck at the
bottom of the Bride Brook Marsh -- 3 Little Blue Heron adults, 2
juveniles.

 From Donna Lorello:
5/03 - Branford front yard - White-winged Dove #1 sighted for about 10
minutes feeding with MoDos.

 From Tim Antanaitis:
5/02 -Madison, Hammonasset State Park -- 1 UPLAND SANDPIPER in the
grassy lot near the nature center at about 4:30.  I only saw it for a
few minutes and after a truck and a rottwellier went through the lot I
couldn't relocate it.  2 BLUE-WINGED TEAL and 1 LITTLE BLUE HERON in
nature center pool. 
East Hampton, Laurel Ridge -- 1 female PINE SISKIN

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