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NH.Birds for Thursday, May 1, 2008
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Subject: Rochester WWTP, Pickering Ponds
From: "Chet" <c_farwell(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 1 May 2008 12:00am
WWTP--
2 Red-tailed Hawk
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrc_5150/2454960325/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrc_5150/2454960167/
4 Greater Yellowlegs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrc_5150/2455923344/
1 Double-crested Cormorant
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrc_5150/2456079480/
Pickering Ponds -
Numerous Swallows
Barn Swallow
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrc_5150/2456049324/
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrc_5150/2455219783/
Tree Swallow
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrc_5150/2455219579/
2 Northern Cardinals
Many, many Yellow-rumped Warblers
1 Heron
3 Palm Warblers
1 Yellow Warbler
3 Blue Jays
3 Savannah Sparrows
Chet
Dover, NH
**GBA===
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrc_5150
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Subject: Rare Bird Alert, New Hampshire, May 1, 2008
From: "Mark Suomala" <mrsuomala(AT)marksbirdtours.com>
Date: 1 May 2008 12:25am
This is New Hampshire Audubon's Rare Bird Alert for Thursday, May 1st, 2008.
The SANDHILL CRANE that has been spending summers in Monroe for more than
5-years running has returned. Traditionally, it has been seen in fields near
Plains Road, and along the Connecticut River.
A LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was seen at Frost Point in Odiorne Point State
Park in Rye on April 24th.
A GLAUCOUS GULL was seen on Hampton Beach on April 30th.
2 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS were reported from Warren Farm in Nottingham on April
14th.
2 PIPING PLOVERS were reported from Hampton Beach State Park on April 30th.
5 UPLAND SANDPIPERS were seen in the grass surrounding the runways at the
Pease International Tradeport in Portsmouth on April 27th.
6 Lesser YELLOWLEGS and 1 GREATER YELLOWLEGS were seen at the Ledyard Bridge
in Hanover on April 27th.
12 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, a SOLITARY SANDPIPER, and a SPOTTED SANDPIPER were
all seen at the Krif Road fields in Keene on April 29th.
155 PURPLE SANDPIPERS were counted along the coast on April 27th.
A BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was seen at Odiorne Point State Park in Rye on
April 27th.
A GADWALL was seen on the Connecticut River in Hinsdale on April 25th.
A RUDDY DUCK was seen at the Rochester Wastewater Treatment Plant on April
29th, and one was seen at the Exeter Wastewater Treatment Plant on April
30th.
A BOHEMIAN WAXWING was reported from Penacook on April 27th.
A COMMON REDPOLL was reported from the Keene Cemetery on April 25th.
5 EVENING GROSBEAKS were seen in Barnstead on April 26th.
42 TURKEY VULTURES were seen roosting in Keene along the eastern edge of
Green Wagon Farm, next to the Ashuelot River, on April 28th.
A WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW was seen at the intersection of Route 108 and River
Road in Stratham on April 26th.
Spring arrivals reported during the past week included: WILLET, VIRGINIA
RAIL, RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, CHIMNEY SWIFT, WARBLING VIREO, BANK
SWALLOW, CLIFF SWALLOW, HOUSE WREN, BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER, GRAY CATBIRD,
BROWN THRASHER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, YELLOW WARBLER, BLACK-THROATED GREEN
WARBLER, BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER, OVENBIRD, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, COMMON
YELLOWTHROAT, EASTERN TOWHEE, VESPER SPARROW, and ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK.
This message is also available by phone recording: call (603) 224-9909 and
press 2 as directed or ask to be transferred. If you have seen any
interesting birds recently, you can leave a message at the end of the
recording or send your sightings to the RBA via e-mail at:
birdsetc(AT)nhaudubon.org. Please put either "bird sighting" or "Rare Bird
Alert" in the subject line and be sure to include your mailing address and
phone number. The RBA is also available on-line at the New Hampshire Audubon
web site, www.nhaudubon.org
Thanks very much and good birding.
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Subject: evening grosbeaks
From: Wendychatel(AT)aol.com
Date: 1 May 2008 6:34am
Pair of Evening Grosbeaks at my feeder most of yesterday.
Wendy Chatel
Wolfeboro
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Subject: Keene arrivals - thrasher, house wren, yellow warbler
From: Phil Brown <downtownpab(AT)yahoo.com>
Date: 1 May 2008 9:59am
Just took a binocular-less stroll (never a good idea in May) around the Antioch
parking lot in Keene, where I heard and saw a pair of brown thrashers (my FOY)
behind the building across the bike path. Possibly a territorial pair, as this
looks like good habitat.
It was a 3-wren walk(!) as a migrant winter wren was in the shrubs in front of
the building, a Carolina wren sang from across the street, and the bubbly song
of a house wren (my FOY) came from the houses across the street from the far end
of the parking lot.
Also singing from this part of the lot was a yellow warbler (my FOY),
blue-headed vireo, and a purple finch (probably a migrant).
Phil Brown
Nelson, NH
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Subject: East Kingston, Brentwood, Pease, Great Bay NWR
From: d.skillman(AT)comcast.net
Date: 1 May 2008 10:35am
Birders: Dennis Skillman and Warren Trested
East Kingston: (yard birds): trouble in the form of Brown headed Cowbird (3
males and 1 female), Red-bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Tufted Titmouse.
On the way to Brentwood Mitigation Area we stopped at a swampy area and stream
on Pickpocket Road to enjoy and photograph several Wood Ducks (~5 males and 1
female). Had a Great Blue Heron flyover plus American Robin and Red-winged
Blackbirds.
http://www.pbase.com/dennissk/image/96397200
At Brentwood Mitigation Area, we happened to get there just as Terry Bronson
arrived and birded with Terry until we left for Pease and GBNWR. Since Terry
kept a detailed count, I will only report total species we saw before leaving
Brentwood, that are above and beyond those at home and on Pickpocket Road (23).
Highlights were a Sharp-shinned Hawk on arrival and Swallow Swarms includings
Tree, Bank, Barn and Northern Rough-winged (also learning more about id'ing a
juvie Red-tailed hawk from Terry). Not one warbler was seen or heard! On our way
out, we found fresh Moose tracks between Pond 7 and the Beaver flooded trail.
The tracks were large, indicating an adult moose on the loose. Also, a close
encounter with a muskrat and we saw several Eastern painted Turtles, a couple of
Garter Snakes, as well as heard the Spring Peepers singing.
At The Pease Golf Course, there was an adult Peregrine Falcon sitting on the
runway lights (departed before I could break out the camera gear). At the
parking lot for the golf course, against the fence, there were numerous (5-10),
very cooperative Chipping Sparrows and Savannah Sparrows:
http://www.pbase.com/dennissk/image/96397204
http://www.pbase.com/dennissk/image/96397206
On the way into the Tradeport, there was an Immature Red-tailed Hawk that had us
scratching our heads on id for a while:
http://www.pbase.com/dennissk/image/96421471
At Great Bay NWR, we saw: Bluebird, Ospreys (there are now two nests in the old
ammo dump, and both are occupied!), A. Goldfinch, Flickers in and out of a nest
cavity (at the swampy area past the ammo dump), Blue Jays, heard several
Killdeer, Song Sparrow, Belted Kingfisher, Mallards,, A. Crow. Non-avian
highlights were: a single deer, American Toads singing occasionally, and a
closelook at a young porcupine.
http://www.pbase.com/dennissk/image/96397015
Dennis Skillman
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Subject: Re: Hawk Clawed Open by Own Last Meal
From: Linda Pivacek <lpivacek(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 1 May 2008 10:31am
That is truly amazing!
Linda
Miedin wrote:
>Yeah right.
>
>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353420,00.html
>
>Mike
>N. Hampton
>Miedin -> Gmail.com
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Subject: Re: Hawk Clawed Open by Own Last Meal
From: Batwrangler <batwrangler(AT)gmail.com>
Date: 1 May 2008 10:52am
I'm more inclined to believe being hit by a car burst the crop.
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Miedin <miedin(AT)gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah right.
>
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353420,00.html
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> Mike
> N. Hampton
> Miedin -> Gmail.com
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Subject: Re: Hawk Clawed Open by Own Last Meal
From: Linda Pivacek <lpivacek(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 1 May 2008 11:08am
Mike,
I agree, it's just a very interesting picture - worth a thousand captions.
Linda
Linda Pivacek,
Nahant
Batwrangler wrote:
>I'm more inclined to believe being hit by a car burst the crop.
>
>On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Miedin <miedin(AT)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Yeah right.
>>
>>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353420,00.html
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>>Mike
>>N. Hampton
>>Miedin -> Gmail.com
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Subject: Roch. WWTP
From: "Dan Hubbard" <danielhubbard(AT)peoplepc.com>
Date: 1 May 2008 11:03am
The ruddy duck that had been keeping the lone ring-necked duck company at
the Rochester WWTP was not present yesterday. It has been replaced by a
male lesser scaup. Fickle ducks.
Dan Hubbard
Rochester
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Subject: Manchester Pine Grove Cemetary Blackburnia
From: joseagle(AT)aol.com
Date: 1 May 2008 12:13pm
Spent about an hour and was very pleased to find the following: All warblers
were found around the small pond near the entrance.
Blackburnia warbler
magnolia warbler
black and white warblers
yellow rumped warblers
common yellow throat warbler
blue headed vireo
ruby crowned kinglets
pine warbler
towhee
hermit thrush
lots of chipping?and white throated? sparrows??
flickers
red bellied woodpecker
and I'm pretty sure I heard a redstart but couldn't find it.
JoAnn O'Shaughnessy
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Subject: Pickering Ponds
From: "sayoung" <sayoung(AT)metrocast.net>
Date: 1 May 2008 2:02pm
Before I got out of my car I heard my first Northern Parula of the season!.
The promiscuous Ruddy was hanging out with both the Lesser Scaup and the
Ringed -neck, until they ditched her for their own company. I ran into the
Lesser later at Pickering and he's quite approachable. Swallow species:
Northern Rough-winged, Bank, Barn, Tree and Cliff. Virginia Rail, Brown
Thrasher, Yellow Warbler, Common Mergs still present.
I heard a Redstart this morning and began pursuing it. Darn if it wasn't a
Butterbutt making a mockery of me!
Scott Young/Strafford
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sa_young/
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Subject: FOY Hummer !
From: Susan Hunter <slhunter(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 1 May 2008 4:43pm
It must be May 1st ! not one but two Ruby Throated Hummers arguing
over my Bedford feeder !
Susan H
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Subject: Barnstead: EVGR
From: Jason Lambert <smiley314(AT)hotmail.com>
Date: 1 May 2008 6:44pm
We had another larger group of Evening Grosbeaks come through the yard this
morning, 20 this time. This makes atleast 2 straight weeks of daily Evening
Grosbeaks.
Jason Lambert
Barnstead, NH
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Subject: Hampton Glaucous
From: joseagle(AT)aol.com
Date: 1 May 2008 8:23pm
Got to Hampton about 6pm and saw this guy on the beach.?
http://www.pbase.com/forbirdz/image/96440392/large
JoAnn O'Shaughnessy
Hampton
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Subject: 215 species in NH through April 30; Big Year Update
From: tbbirds(AT)comcast.net (Terry Bronson/Nancy Nelso)
Date: 1 May 2008 10:09pm
>From January 1-April 30, 2008, 215 species of birds were reported
in New Hampshire to NH.Birds and NH Bird Records.
Let me emphasize that this total is REPORTED species and
makes no judgments about the validity of the reports.
Of the 306 species listed in NH Audubon's "A Checklist of the
Birds of New Hampshire," 199 of the 220 that should be
theoretically possible during the first 4 months of the year
have been seen so far.
The 21 species that were theoretically possible through the end
of April that were not seen were:
Tundra Swan
Spruce Grouse
Northern Fulmar
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
American Coot
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Red Phalarope
Laughing Gull
Common Murre
Atlantic Puffin
Long-eared Owl
Red-headed Woodpecker
American Three-toed Woodpecker
Least Flycatcher
Purple Martin
Marsh Wren
Varied Thrush
Northern Parula
Indigo Bunting
6 species that should not show up until May were seen:
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-eyed Vireo
Veery
Ovenbird
Common Yellowthroat
Bobolink
10 species not listed in the Checklist at all were seen:
Ross's Goose
Cackling Goose
Eared Grebe
Wood Stork
Gyrfalcon
Sandhill Crane
Slaty-backed Gull
Northern Hawk Owl
Great Gray Owl
Painted Bunting
Here's the complete list of species seen through April 30.
* indicates the 151 species seen by me in my 2008
NH Big Year Fundraiser for the Seacoast Chapter of
NH Audubon.
# indicates may require review by the NH Rare Birds
Committee
# Greater White-fronted Goose
* Snow Goose
*# Ross's Goose
# Cackling Goose
* Canada Goose
Brant
* Mute Swan
* Wood Duck
* Gadwall
* Eurasian Wigeon
* American Wigeon
* American Black Duck
* Mallard
* Blue-winged Teal
* Northern Shoveler
* Northern Pintail
* Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Redhead
* Ring-necked Duck
* Greater Scaup
* Lesser Scaup
* King Eider
* Common Eider
* Harlequin Duck
* Surf Scoter
* White-winged Scoter
* Black Scoter
* Long-tailed Duck
* Bufflehead
* Common Goldeneye
* Barrow's Goldeneye
* Hooded Merganser
* Common Merganser
* Red-breasted Merganser
* Ruddy Duck
Ring-necked Pheasant
* Ruffed Grouse
* Wild Turkey
* Red-throated Loon
* Common Loon
* Pied-billed Grebe
* Horned Grebe
* Red-necked Grebe
*# Eared Grebe
Northern Gannet
* Double-crested Cormorant
* Great Cormorant
American Bittern
* Great Blue Heron
* Great Egret
* Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
* Glossy Ibis
# Wood Stork
Black Vulture
* Turkey Vulture
* Osprey
* Bald Eagle
* Northern Harrier
* Sharp-shinned Hawk
* Cooper's Hawk
* Northern Goshawk
* Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
* Red-tailed Hawk
* Rough-legged Hawk
* American Kestrel
* Merlin
* Peregrine Falcon
# Gyrfalcon
* Virginia Rail
Sora
Sandhill Crane
* Black-bellied Plover
* Piping Plover
* Killdeer
* Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet
* Spotted Sandpiper
Upland Sandpiper
* Sanderling
Pectoral Sandpiper
* Purple Sandpiper
* Dunlin
* Wilson's Snipe
* American Woodcock
* Black-headed Gull
* Bonaparte's Gull
* Ring-billed Gull
* Herring Gull
* Iceland Gull
* Lesser Black-backed Gull
# Slaty-backed Gull
* Glaucous Gull
* Great Black-backed Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake
Dovekie
Thick-billed Murre
* Razorbill
* Black Guillemot
* Rock Pigeon
* Mourning Dove
* Eastern Screech-owl
* Great Horned Owl
Snowy Owl
# Northern Hawk Owl
#Great Gray Owl
* Barred Owl
Short-eared Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Whip-poor-will
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
* Belted Kingfisher
* Red-bellied Woodpecker
* Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
* Downy Woodpecker
* Hairy Woodpecker
Black-backed Woodpecker
* Northern Flicker
* Pileated Woodpecker
* Eastern Phoebe
* Eastern Kingbird
* Northern Shrike
Blue-headed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
* Gray Jay
* Blue Jay
* American Crow
* Fish Crow
* Common Raven
* Horned Lark
* Tree Swallow
* Northern Rough-winged Swallow
* Bank Swallow
* Cliff Swallow
* Barn Swallow
* Black-capped Chickadee
* Boreal Chickadee
* Tufted Titmouse
* Red-breasted Nuthatch
* White-breasted Nuthatch
* Brown Creeper
* Carolina Wren
House Wren
Winter Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
* Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
* Eastern Bluebird
Veery
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
* American Robin
Gray Catbird
* Northern Mockingbird
* Brown Thrasher
* European Starling
American Pipit
* Bohemian Waxwing
* Cedar Waxwing
Nashville Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
* Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
* Pine Warbler
* Palm Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
* Eastern Towhee
* American Tree Sparrow
* Chipping Sparrow
* Field Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
* Savannah Sparrow
* Fox Sparrow
* Song Sparrow
* Swamp Sparrow
* White-throated Sparrow
* White-crowned Sparrow
* Dark-eyed Junco
* Lapland Longspur
* Snow Bunting
* Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Painted Bunting
Bobolink
* Red-winged Blackbird
* Eastern Meadowlark
* Rusty Blackbird
* Common Grackle
* Brown-headed Cowbird
Baltimore Oriole
* Pine Grosbeak
* Purple Finch
* House Finch
Red Crossbill
White-winged Crossbill
* Common Redpoll
*# Hoary Redpoll
* Pine Siskin
* American Goldfinch
* Evening Grosbeak
* House Sparrow
As for my Big Year effort, I had targeted 175 species
through the end of April. I saw 137, plus 12 targeted
for later months, plus the Ross's Goose and Eared
Grebe not on the list, for a total of 151. I am thus
124 short of my goal of 275 for the year.
Biggest misses so far are Canvasback, Redhead,
Black Vulture (which I missed by 5 minutes), Broad-
winged Hawk, Short-eared Owl, Winter Wren,
Golden-crowned Kinglet, and Hermit Thrush.
My May target list is 87 species due to arrive this month,
plus 38 species left over from January through April.
Hopefully, I can get 75 of the 87 and 8 of the 38 by
June 1, which would leave me at 234.
--
Terry Bronson
Hampton Falls, NH
tbbirds(AT)comcast.net
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