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Subject: Number of species seen in NH
From: tbbirds(AT)comcast.net (Terry Bronson)
Date: 2 Apr 2008 8:36am
Scott and fellow listers,
As I reported yesterday, 163 species have been seen in
the state so far this year.
There is not yet an approved list of all species seen in
the state ever. The NH Rare Birds Committee is currently
sorting through old records in papers and journals to
compile such a list.
I did compile an unofficial list for NH Bird Records going
back to 1980 or so with a few older known records. The
total on that list is 421 species.
I would suspect the final total may approach 450 species.
That would include some now-extinct species such as
the Passenger Pigeon and Labrador Duck that likely
graced our state back in the 1800s.
--
Terry Bronson
Secretary, NH Rare Birds Committee
Hampton Falls, NH
tbbirds(AT)comcast.net
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Subject: Fish Crow in Manchester
From: Jon Woolf <jsw(AT)jwoolfden.com>
Date: 2 Apr 2008 8:29am
A sighting from yesterday that I meant to post: I walked the Dorrs
Pond trail at Livingston Park again (not easy, the trail is still
very icy) yesterday morning. Mostly ordinary stuff: chickadees,
titmice, mallards, a single GBH. A crow flew over and gave a few
unusual-sounding caws; after getting home I checked some sound files
and concluded it was a Fish Crow, not an American Crow.
-- Jon Woolf
Manchester, NH
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Subject: A Young Birders Story
From: "Peter Manship" <maddog54l(AT)tds.net>
Date: 2 Apr 2008 9:57am
I asked Hope Batcheller a young birder (15) if she wanted to share her
birding experiances with others and this is what I received from her. It's a
great story of her adventure Birding at Camp Chiricahua, Southeastern Arizona.
Please enjoy her story!
http://carolandpetes.blogspot.com/2008/04/camp-chiricahua-southeastern-arizon
a.html
I know it is of topic, but it should be inspiring to both parents of young
birders and to up and comming young birders and plus Young Birder Month is
just around the corner.
Peter Manship
Ludlow Vt
http://carolandpetes.blogspot.com
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Subject: Fwd: Starlings
From: "David J. Blezard" <djb1(AT)cisunix.unh.edu>
Date: 2 Apr 2008 11:23am
I'm forwarding this from a colleague at work. He took a long series
of photos of these two starlings doing....something.
Any definitive ideas of what it really was?
The either really liked each other or really didn't.
-David J. Blezard
NH.BIRDS List Owner
nh.birds-request(AT)lists.unh.edu
Begin forwarded message:
> From: "Walsh, Marquis"
> Date: April 2, 2008 10:03:40 AM EDT
> Subject: Starlings
>
> David were they mating or trying to kill each other? Thanks,
> Marquis
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/marquiswalsh/
>
>
> Marquis Walsh
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Subject: Ross Goose - NO at 12:15 PM
From: "David J. Blezard" <djb1(AT)cisunix.unh.edu>
Date: 2 Apr 2008 12:40pm
I took a brief trip out to the Moore Fields at lunch again today.
With the wind blowing hard from the west, across the fields, it isn't
a nice place to be birding.
It also doesn't seem like the birds like it much. There are only
about 20% of the number of geese there that were around yesterday. A
few minutes of scanning didn't turn up the Ross Goose among the 300 or
so geese that were present.
-David J. Blezard
NH.BIRDS List Owner
nh.birds-request(AT)lists.unh.edu
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Subject: RE: Starlings
From: "Iain MacLeod" <iain.macleod(AT)nhnature.org>
Date: 2 Apr 2008 1:16pm
David,
They do NOT like each other. This is aggressive behavior -- probably
between two males fighting over a nest site. They are gripping each
others legs and pecking the stuffing out of each other -- sort of like
two ice hockey players grabbing each others sleeves with one hand and
throwing hay makers with the other. In both case . . . blame it on
hormones!!!
Iain MacLeod
Executive Director
Squam Lakes Natural Science Center
23 Science Center Road,
PO Box 173, Holderness, NH 03245
Phone: 603-968-7194 ext. 23 Fax: 603-968-2229
iain.macleod(AT)nhnature.org
www.nhnature.org
Advancing understanding of ecology by exploring NH's natural world
Northern New England's only AZA*-accredited institution.
*Association of Zoos and Aquariums -- www.aza.org
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-NH.Birds(AT)lists.unh.edu [mailto:owner-NH.Birds(AT)lists.unh.edu]
On Behalf Of David J. Blezard
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:23 AM
To: New Hampshire Birds
Subject: Fwd: Starlings
I'm forwarding this from a colleague at work. He took a long series of
photos of these two starlings doing....something.
Any definitive ideas of what it really was?
The either really liked each other or really didn't.
-David J. Blezard
NH.BIRDS List Owner
nh.birds-request(AT)lists.unh.edu
Begin forwarded message:
> From: "Walsh, Marquis"
> Date: April 2, 2008 10:03:40 AM EDT
> Subject: Starlings
>
> David were they mating or trying to kill each other? Thanks,
> Marquis
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/marquiswalsh/
>
>
> Marquis Walsh
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Subject: tree swallows-Nashua
From: Jen Beaudry <jenbeaudry(AT)verizon.net>
Date: 2 Apr 2008 1:31pm
There are about 10 or so Tree Swallows flying around over the brook right now on
Salmon Brook-Nashua (1:30pm).
Isn't this early for them?
-Jen Beaudry
Nashua, NH
____________________
Loans that change lives.
www.kiva.org
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Subject: Sturn the Vulgar
From: "fogleman" <fogleman(AT)mvgalaxy.com>
Date: 2 Apr 2008 1:36pm
Hello David,
Tell your friend Marquis that these are amazing pictures.
Alas, this is NOT a love story, but a battle -- maybe to the end.
It appears that Sturn the Vulgar and Bartholomew Starrlinge are engaged in
spring-induced warfare.
As the battle progresses you can see that Sturn is bent on the deoculation
of his rival. Despite his apparent defeat, Brave Bart is nonetheless
valiant to the end, as one sees him feebly stretching out his foot in a
futile attempt to ward off his opponent's strikes.
All that is needed for this slide show is a little musical accompaniment --
perhaps Stravinsky's FireBird?
Susan Fogleman
Campton
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-NH.Birds(AT)lists.unh.edu [mailto:owner-NH.Birds(AT)lists.unh.edu] On
Behalf Of David J. Blezard
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:23 AM
To: New Hampshire Birds
Subject: Fwd: Starlings
I'm forwarding this from a colleague at work. He took a long series
of photos of these two starlings doing....something.
Any definitive ideas of what it really was?
The either really liked each other or really didn't.
-David J. Blezard
NH.BIRDS List Owner
nh.birds-request(AT)lists.unh.edu
Begin forwarded message:
> From: "Walsh, Marquis"
> Date: April 2, 2008 10:03:40 AM EDT
> Subject: Starlings
>
> David were they mating or trying to kill each other? Thanks,
> Marquis
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/marquiswalsh/
>
>
> Marquis Walsh
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Subject: Re: Number of species seen in NH
From: "Jim Berry" <jim.berry3(AT)verizon.net>
Date: 2 Apr 2008 2:17pm
Going back a century, there are two NH annotated state lists. One is Glover
Allen's Birds of New Hampshire, published in 1902 or 1903 in the Proceedings
of the Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences (both years appear on the
cover). Note also the phenomenally comprehensive bibliography in the NH
Breeding Bird Atlas (1994), which has two listings for Allen's work, the
second published in 1903, apparently as a book, by the Nature Study Press in
Manchester.
The second is also by Glover Allen: his Fauna of New England: List of the
Aves, published by the Boston Society of Natural History as its Occasional
Paper #7 in 1909. This is an annotated list of all the birds of New England
with their status in all six states as of that time.
These works are hard to find, but copies occasionally turn up, and Denny
Abbott is a good source to check. They don't help with more recently added
species, but they are wonderful resources for anyone interested in the
history of birds and bird records in NH. See the article in the winter 2007
issue of NH Bird Records on the history of published bird sightings in the
state, and a longer piece I wrote on the history of published bird records
in all six New England states in the Dec. 2002 issue of Bird Observer. New
England probably has more bird records publications and state, sub-state
(regional), and county bird books than any other part of the country.
Jim Berry
Ipswich, Mass.
jim.berry3(AT)verizon.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Bronson" <tbbirds(AT)comcast.net>
To: "New Hampshire Birds" <NH.Birds(AT)lists.unh.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 8:29 AM
Subject: Number of species seen in NH
> Scott and fellow listers,
>
> As I reported yesterday, 163 species have been seen in
> the state so far this year.
>
> There is not yet an approved list of all species seen in
> the state ever. The NH Rare Birds Committee is currently
> sorting through old records in papers and journals to
> compile such a list.
>
> I did compile an unofficial list for NH Bird Records going
> back to 1980 or so with a few older known records. The
> total on that list is 421 species.
>
> I would suspect the final total may approach 450 species.
> That would include some now-extinct species such as
> the Passenger Pigeon and Labrador Duck that likely
> graced our state back in the 1800s.
>
> --
> Terry Bronson
> Secretary, NH Rare Birds Committee
> Hampton Falls, NH
> tbbirds(AT)comcast.net
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Subject: Wilson's Snipe: Krif Road, Keene
From: "Lance Tanino" <Lance_Tanino(AT)antiochne.edu>
Date: 2 Apr 2008 3:26pm
This afternoon At 2:30 PM I made a quick look at Krif Road. My FOY
Wilson's Snipe was observed foraging within binocular view of the
roadside. I was lucky enough to notice it scurrying its short legs and
stocky body being led by its long straight bill a short distance across
the field before relocating it as it was well camouflaged in the brown
vegetation with its striped head :-P
Lance Tanino
Keene, NH
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Subject: Birds in Kingston, Exeter and East Kingston
From: d.skillman(AT)comcast.net
Date: 2 Apr 2008 4:10pm
Highlights: (Birders - Warren Trested and Dennis Skillman)
East Kingston: a Bald Eagle (imm.) at Pow-wow Pond (East Kingston end), and
similar or same eagle 20 minutes later over Rt. 108 just north of Rt. 107A
intersection; Northern Pintail at Bodwell fields with many Canada Geese and
Mallards. (And, as I am writing this, I just heard a Barred Owl very near my
home in East Kingston.)
Kingston (Pow-wow Pond): a pair of Hooded Mergansers (m and f), about 6 Common
Mergansers, and many Ring-necked Ducks, Mallards and Black Ducks.
Exeter Waste Water Treatment Plant: (we birded with Jon Woolf who showed up at
the same time) Wilson's Snipe (4 - thanks to Jon's sharp eyes!), Northern
Shoveler (2 males and 1 female), Eastern Bluebird (1), Buffleheads (4),
Ring-necked Ducks (~ 25), and Mallards and Black Ducks as well as the usual
complement of gulls (Ring-billed, Greater Black Backed and Herring).
Dennis Skillman
Follow the link below to the first of 4 photos from today and continue to click
next to see all 4(shoveler, bluebird, ring necks and snipe).
http://www.pbase.com/dennissk/image/95067394
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Subject: Fwd: Fw: Unbelievable ornithological news
From: "Pamela Hunt" <PHunt(AT)NHAudubon.org>
Date: 2 Apr 2008 5:24pm
Greetings all,
Something to amaze all of you!
Pam
Sent by: ORNITH-L(AT)SI-LISTSERV.SI.EDU "ORNITH-L: the scientific discussion of
Ornithology"
Subject: Unbelievable ornithological new
04/01/2008 12:48 PM
Please respond to "ORNITH-L: the scientific discussion of Ornithology"
<ORNITH-L(AT)SI-LISTSERV.SI.EDU>
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/04/01/video-exclusive-first-ever-images-of-the-world-s-only-flying-penguins-89520-20369322/
--
Ellen Paul
Executive Director
The Ornithological Council
Mailto:ellen.paul(AT)verizon.net
"Providing Scientific Information about Birds"
Ornithological Council: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET
Pamela D. Hunt, Ph.D.
Senior Conservation Biologist
Audubon Society of New Hampshire
3 Silk Farm Road
Concord, NH 03301
(603) 224-9909 extension 328
phunt(AT)nhaudubon.org
FAX: (603) 226-0902
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Subject: Re: Birds in Kingston, Exeter and East Kingston
From: Jon Woolf <jsw(AT)jwoolfden.com>
Date: 2 Apr 2008 6:00pm
At 04:10 PM 4/2/2008, Dennis Skillman wrote:
>Exeter Waste Water Treatment Plant: (we birded with Jon Woolf who
>showed up at the same time) Wilson's Snipe (4 - thanks to Jon's
>sharp eyes!), Northern Shoveler (2 males and 1 female), Eastern
>Bluebird (1), Buffleheads (4), Ring-necked Ducks (~ 25), and
>Mallards and Black Ducks as well as the usual complement of gulls
>(Ring-billed, Greater Black Backed and Herring).
Also add about 20-25 Green-winged Teal, plus a couple of other
'gimme' birds: Song Sparrow, Bluejay, Cardinal. And I saw a male
Wood Duck in the smaller marsh pond. I don't know where it went that
I couldn't find it again for you, but it was definitely there.
>Follow the link below to the first of 4 photos from today and
>continue to click next to see all 4(shoveler, bluebird, ring necks and snipe).
That's a truly awesome picture of the Shoveler.
-- Jon Woolf
Manchester, NH
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Subject: RE: Photo Exhibit
From: "Kevin Klasman" <kevinklasman(AT)hotmail.com>
Date: 2 Apr 2008 6:20pm
I'm thinking of attending the opening reception, and would be interested in
carpooling from Nashua or Manchester area.
Anyone interested?
Kevin Klasman
Nashua, NH
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-NH.Birds(AT)lists.unh.edu [mailto:owner-NH.Birds(AT)lists.unh.edu] On
Behalf Of Airedale1
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 8:49 PM
To: New Hampshire Birds
Subject: Photo Exhibit
I will be having some of my photography exhibited at the Prescott Farm
Audubon
Center in Laconia. The exhibit is entitled Birds of New Hampshire and all
(24) of the pieces are 13" x 19" images in 18" x 24" frames. The exhibit
will
run until May 1st.
There will be an opening reception this Friday evening April 4th at 6:00 to
8:00 p.m. at the Prescott Farm Audubon 928 White Oaks Road in Laconia, NH (1
mile from Weirs Beach), appetizers and refreshments will be served. I hope
to
see you there.
Paul Merritt
Laconia, NH
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Subject: Charlestown & Walpole
From: "Lance Tanino" <Lance_Tanino(AT)antiochne.edu>
Date: 2 Apr 2008 7:57pm
02 April 2008
Charlestown & Walpole
4:00 - 5:40 PM
Snow Goose - 2; Great Meadows
Canada Goose - ~2400; 1900 @ Great Meadows, 500 @ Malnati Farm
Wood Duck - 60; 30 @ Great Meadows, 30 @ Malnati Farm
American Black Duck - ~100; Great Meadows
Mallard - ~400; Great Meadows
NORTHERN SHOVELER - 2; Great Meadows, both males were observed flying
in and landing in the water
Northern Pintail - 4; two pairs foraging together
Green-winged Teal - 23; made up of mostly pairs
Great Blue Heron - 2; Great Meadows
Red-tailed Hawk - 1 adult
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK - 1; light phase adult male; spooked a large
number of ducks and observed soaring less than a 50 m. from us; good looks
the large hawk with dark wrist patches, incomplete dark belly, white
uppertail.
American Kestrel - 2; one at Great Meadows kiting at eye-level and
one along Route 12 in Walpole
Killdeer - 25; 7 at Great Meadows and 18 @ Malnati Farm
Ring-billed Gull - 103; north end of Great Meadows
Lance Tanino & Alexis Clark
Keene, NH
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Subject: George Burrows Brookside, South Hampton ~ 4/2/08
From: newburyportbirders(AT)comcast.net
Date: 2 Apr 2008 8:34pm
NH Birders,
I made a short visit to George Burrows Brookside Wildlife Sanctuary
this blustery afternoon and viewed the following:
Great Blue Heron were allopreening and pair bonding;
Pileated Woodpecker was in flight and calling repeatedly; Hooded
Mergansers were bathing; Eastern Phoebe was announcing its presence;
Ospreys were in courtship flight; "Mama" was sitting higher in her nest,
but no owlets were visible; and there were several pair of squealing
Wood Ducks.
Good birding,
Sue
Sue McGrath
Observe ~ Appreciate ~ Identify
Newburyport Birders
Newburyport, MA 01950
978-462-4785
newburyportbirders(AT)comcast.net
www.newburyportbirders.com
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Subject: Re: tree swallows-Nashua
From: cmsbirds(AT)comcast.net (Chris Sheridan)
Date: 2 Apr 2008 8:38pm
There were a couple out there Saturday--it was so cold and windy...still some
ice out there.
They seemed to find some insects on the water to pick up.
On the Daily Field Cards for Massachusetts, they have them showing
up around the third week in March, so I guess they're not too far off schedule
since we're so
close to the state line.
Would anyone have the dates for their usual NH arrival?
Chris Sheridan
Nashua
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Jen Beaudry <jenbeaudry(AT)verizon.net>
> There are about 10 or so Tree Swallows flying around over the brook right now
on
> Salmon Brook-Nashua (1:30pm).
>
> Isn't this early for them?
>
> -Jen Beaudry
> Nashua, NH
>
> ____________________
> Loans that change lives.
> www.kiva.org
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Subject: A question on listing birds
From: Jon Woolf <jsw(AT)jwoolfden.com>
Date: 2 Apr 2008 10:07pm
A question on listing birds:
Today, as noted elsewhere, I saw four Wilson's Snipe at Exeter
WWTP. The last time I saw snipe was about six years ago, at a park
in southern Ohio near Cincinnati. At that time (as far as I can
recall) the bird now called "Wilson's Snipe" was still considered a
subspecies of Common Snipe. Now I'm sorta wondering how to deal with
this in my life list? Do I leave the old sighting as Common Snipe
and add Wilson's Snipe as of today? Or do I change the item in my
list to Wilson's Snipe and leave the Ohio sighting as my life record?
-- Jon Woolf
Manchester, NH
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Subject: RE: Fw: Unbelievable ornithological news
From: "Stephanie Parkinson" <steph(AT)ttlc.net>
Date: 2 Apr 2008 10:28pm
....Absolutely! Especially the "making of"....!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px-XS0UHtms&feature=related
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-NH.Birds(AT)lists.unh.edu [mailto:owner-NH.Birds(AT)lists.unh.edu] On
Behalf Of Pamela Hunt
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 6:25 PM
To: New Hampshire Birds
Subject: Fwd: Fw: Unbelievable ornithological news
Greetings all,
Something to amaze all of you!
Pam
Sent by: ORNITH-L(AT)SI-LISTSERV.SI.EDU "ORNITH-L: the scientific discussion
of Ornithology"
Subject: Unbelievable ornithological new
04/01/2008 12:48 PM
Please respond to "ORNITH-L: the scientific discussion of Ornithology"
<ORNITH-L(AT)SI-LISTSERV.SI.EDU>
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/04/01/video-exclusive-first-eve
r-images-of-the-world-s-only-flying-penguins-89520-20369322/
--
Ellen Paul
Executive Director
The Ornithological Council
Mailto:ellen.paul(AT)verizon.net
"Providing Scientific Information about Birds"
Ornithological Council: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET
Pamela D. Hunt, Ph.D.
Senior Conservation Biologist
Audubon Society of New Hampshire
3 Silk Farm Road
Concord, NH 03301
(603) 224-9909 extension 328
phunt(AT)nhaudubon.org
FAX: (603) 226-0902
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