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Subject: Long-tailed Ducks and migrant shorebirds
From: Steve Mirick <smirick(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 7 Jul 2009 8:40am
Forgot to mention that I had two Long-tailed Ducks in Rye from Rye Ledge
yesterday on the way to the Whale Watch boat. Uncommon to rare in the
summer time along the NH coast. They were hauled out on the rocks with
some eiders.
Also.......southbound migration has started! Fall is here!
Jane and I had a Lesser Yellowlegs and a Short-billed Dowitcher on
Sunday over Hampton harbor and yesterday we had a few Short-billed
Dowitchers in Rye harbor and a flock of about 20 unidentified migrating
shorebirds offshore near the Isles of Shoals! Short-billed Dowitchers
and Lesser Yellowlegs are typically the vanguards of southbound
migration for shorebirds and are often heading south by the last day or
two of June or the first couple of days in July.
Steve Mirick
Bradford, MA
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Subject: "Ghost Bird" -- The story about the Ivory-billed Woodpecker
From: Steve Mirick <smirick(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 7 Jul 2009 10:43am
Here is information from Louis Bevier on a film coming to the Portsmouth
Music Hall on Saturday, July 18th. Sounds like a great opportunity to
learn more about the incredibly sad story of this woodpecker and the
impacts of it's presumed incorrectly identified "re-discovery" a few
years ago in Arkansas.
More details can be found at:
http://www.themusichall.org/calendar/event_detail.asp?eventID=816
Steve Mirick
Bradford, MA
Scott Crocker, the director of a new film documentary on the
Ivory-billed story, contacted me. His film, Ghost Bird, is going to
premiere in Waterville (well, U.S. premiere; it already showed in
Toronto, and not really even U.S. because I guess it showed in San Diego
at a bird festival there, but hey, that's what he says...)
He is asking for help alerting birders and, especially, conservation
groups, to the showings, which will be part of the Maine International
Film Festival (MIFF). The first is this Sat. at 3:30 p.m. at the
Waterville Opera House. Two other showings are scheduled for Sunday and
Monday. There is also a showing in New Hampshire as part of the same
MIFF event--Saturday, July 18th, 3:30 p.m. at The Music Hall, Portsmouth.
See, http://miff.org/
for tickets and times
I think birders in New Hampshire would be interested. I'm writing to ask
if you could post this to the N.H. listserv. Here is a blurb that Scott
provided. Thanks for your help, Louis
PRESS RELEASE
US Premiere of Ghost Bird takes flight at the Maine International Film
Festival.
Following its SOLD OUT World Premiere at the Hot Doc's Film Festival in
Toronto, the conservation documentary Ghost Bird has its US Premiere at
the Maine International Film Festival Saturday, July 11th. Ghost Bird
chronicles the controversial rediscovery of the Ivory-billed woodpecker
in the swamps of eastern Arkansas in 2004. On a deeper level the film
explores species extinction and how the collision of politics, culture,
and science shape our understanding of the disappearing natural world.
Ghost Bird ultimately brings the Ivory-bills blurry rediscovery into
focus, revealing our uneasy relationship with nature and the increasing
uncertainty of our place within it. The film stars David Sibley, Nancy
Tanner and Dr. Jerome Jackson, and features a sound track including The
Black Keys, The Pixies, The White Stripes and an original score by
avant-cellist Zok Keating.
Ghost Bird premieres in Waterville on Friday, July 11th at 3:30. Two
additional screenings follow on Saturday the 12th at 12:30 and on Monday
the 13th at 9:30 PM.
An excellent new documentary. Bruce Kirkland, Toronto Sun
Comic, mesmerizing and deeply poignantreminiscent of the work of Errol
Morris. Brian Johnson, Maclean's
Smart and insightful...never stops short of being captivating. Robert
Bell, exclaim!
The often thrilling birdwatcher docinsightfully tallies up the
economic, environmental and social ramifications of the eventwhile
drawing apt parallels to Bushs war on terror. Radheyan Simonpillai,
Now Magazine
The film searches for a bird and instead finds a zeitgeist. Angie
Driscoll, programmer, Hot Docs
The film's trailer and web site can be viewed here: www.ghostbirdmovie.com
Maine International Film Festival link:
http://www.miff.org/tickets/film.php?id=351&page=2&flm_cat=&date=?id=351&page=2&flm_cat=&date=&forwarded=1
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Subject: Pelagic Birding Trip out of Provincetown, MA on Sunday,
September 27, 2009.
From: Steve Mirick <smirick(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 7 Jul 2009 10:50am
I'm posting this for Mary Keleher of the Cape Cod Birding Club. The
Provincetown area has been a hot spot for ocean birds lately with Tens
of Thousands of shearwaters and 3 species of jaegers! Should be a fun
trip if you don't mind the drive!
Steve Mirick
Bradford, MA
Join members of the Cape Cod Bird Club for its first ever Pelagic
Birding Trip out of Provincetown, MA on Sunday, September 27, 2009.
This trip is part of the club's 4th Annual Birding Cape Cod Weekend Event.
The cost for this trip is $60.00 for members and $75.00 for non-members.
The trip is limited to 110 people. This trip will be cancelled if the
quota is not met. Boarding will begin at 8:30am. We will depart at
9:00am and return at 3:00pm.
Expert birders Blair Nikula and Peter Trull will be calling out the
birds for us. We will have great opportunities for viewing Greater,
Sooty, and Manx Shearwaters, Northern Gannet, Black-legged Kittiwake,
and Parasitic and Pomarine Jaegers.
Other possibilities include Northern Fulmar, Corys Shearwater, Wilsons
and Leachs Storm-Petrels, Red-necked and Red Phalaropes, Sabines Gull,
Long-tailed Jaeger, and Razorbill. In addition to pelagic species, the
first migrant loons and sea ducks should be in evidence and, if the
weather conditions are favorable, a few migrating songbirds might also
appear. Though the main focus will be on birds, we might possibly see
Humpback, Finback, and Minke Whales, Atlantic White-sided Dolphin,
Basking Shark, Bluefin Tuna, and Mola Mola.
The 75 foot Dolphin Fleet vessel has a heated main deck with a full
gallery and bar. There is bench seating on the main deck as well as open
seating on the top deck and railings all around the perimeter. The
interior cabin has seating for over 100 passengers and the cabin is
centrally heated and air-cooled. There are clean modern restrooms aboard
and the boats area immaculate.
A signed waiver is required for this trip. To download a copy of the
waiver and for more information on this trip and other events for the
weekend go to: http://www.massbird.org/ccbc/BirdingCapeCodWeekend2009.pdf
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Subject: Re: "Ghost Bird" -- The story about the Ivory-billed
Woodpecker
From: Bruce Boyer <bboyer192(AT)earthlink.net>
Date: 7 Jul 2009 12:12pm
Would be interesting to see this film some day. Sibley is in it, and
he is well known for debunking the recent sightings.
On Jul 7, 2009, at 10:43 AM, Steve Mirick wrote:
> Here is information from Louis Bevier on a film coming to the
> Portsmouth Music Hall on Saturday, July 18th. Sounds like a great
> opportunity to learn more about the incredibly sad story of this
> woodpecker and the impacts of it's presumed incorrectly identified
> "re-discovery" a few years ago in Arkansas.
>
> More details can be found at:
>
> http://www.themusichall.org/calendar/event_detail.asp?eventID=816
>
> Steve Mirick
> Bradford, MA
>
>
>
> Scott Crocker, the director of a new film documentary on the Ivory-
> billed story, contacted me. His film, Ghost Bird, is going to
> premiere in Waterville (well, U.S. premiere; it already showed in
> Toronto, and not really even U.S. because I guess it showed in San
> Diego at a bird festival there, but hey, that's what he says...)
>
> He is asking for help alerting birders and, especially, conservation
> groups, to the showings, which will be part of the Maine
> International Film Festival (MIFF). The first is this Sat. at 3:30
> p.m. at the Waterville Opera House. Two other showings are scheduled
> for Sunday and Monday. There is also a showing in New Hampshire as
> part of the same MIFF event--Saturday, July 18th, 3:30 p.m. at The
> Music Hall, Portsmouth.
>
> See, http://miff.org/
> for tickets and times
>
> I think birders in New Hampshire would be interested. I'm writing to
> ask if you could post this to the N.H. listserv. Here is a blurb
> that Scott provided. Thanks for your help, Louis
>
> PRESS RELEASE
>
> US Premiere of Ghost Bird takes flight at the Maine International
> Film Festival.
>
> Following its SOLD OUT World Premiere at the Hot Doc's Film Festival
> in Toronto, the conservation documentary Ghost Bird has its US
> Premiere at the Maine International Film Festival Saturday, July
> 11th. Ghost Bird chronicles the controversial rediscovery of the
> Ivory-billed woodpecker in the swamps of eastern Arkansas in 2004.
> On a deeper level the film explores species extinction and how the
> collision of politics, culture, and science shape our understanding
> of the disappearing natural world. Ghost Bird ultimately brings the
> Ivory-bills blurry rediscovery into focus, revealing our uneasy
> relationship with nature and the increasing uncertainty of our place
> within it. The film stars David Sibley, Nancy Tanner and Dr. Jerome
> Jackson, and features a sound track including The Black Keys, The
> Pixies, The White Stripes and an original score by avant-cellist Zok
> Keating.
>
> Ghost Bird premieres in Waterville on Friday, July 11th at 3:30. Two
> additional screenings follow on Saturday the 12th at 12:30 and on
> Monday the 13th at 9:30 PM.
>
>
> An excellent new documentary. Bruce Kirkland, Toronto Sun
>
> Comic, mesmerizing and deeply poignantreminiscent of the work of
> Errol Morris. Brian Johnson, Maclean's
>
> Smart and insightful...never stops short of being captivating.
> Robert Bell, exclaim!
>
> The often thrilling birdwatcher docinsightfully tallies up the
> economic, environmental and social ramifications of the eventwhile
> drawing apt parallels to Bushs war on terror. Radheyan
> Simonpillai, Now Magazine
>
> The film searches for a bird and instead finds a zeitgeist. Angie
> Driscoll, programmer, Hot Docs
>
> The film's trailer and web site can be viewed here: www.ghostbirdmovie.com
>
> Maine International Film Festival link:
http://www.miff.org/tickets/film.php?id=351&page=2&flm_cat=&date=
> ?id=351&page=2&flm_cat=&date=&forwarded=1
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Subject: Re: "Ghost Bird" -- The story about the Ivory-billed
Woodpecker
From: Linda Pivacek <lpivacek(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 7 Jul 2009 12:24pm
Hi Steve,
wonder how Tim Gallagher of Cornell is dealing with all of this?
Love always,
Number four
Steve Mirick wrote:
> Here is information from Louis Bevier on a film coming to the
> Portsmouth Music Hall on Saturday, July 18th. Sounds like a great
> opportunity to learn more about the incredibly sad story of this
> woodpecker and the impacts of it's presumed incorrectly identified
> "re-discovery" a few years ago in Arkansas.
>
> More details can be found at:
>
> http://www.themusichall.org/calendar/event_detail.asp?eventID=816
>
> Steve Mirick
> Bradford, MA
>
>
>
> Scott Crocker, the director of a new film documentary on the
> Ivory-billed story, contacted me. His film, Ghost Bird, is going to
> premiere in Waterville (well, U.S. premiere; it already showed in
> Toronto, and not really even U.S. because I guess it showed in San
> Diego at a bird festival there, but hey, that's what he says...)
>
> He is asking for help alerting birders and, especially, conservation
> groups, to the showings, which will be part of the Maine International
> Film Festival (MIFF). The first is this Sat. at 3:30 p.m. at the
> Waterville Opera House. Two other showings are scheduled for Sunday
> and Monday. There is also a showing in New Hampshire as part of the
> same MIFF event--Saturday, July 18th, 3:30 p.m. at The Music Hall,
> Portsmouth.
>
> See, http://miff.org/
> for tickets and times
>
> I think birders in New Hampshire would be interested. I'm writing to
> ask if you could post this to the N.H. listserv. Here is a blurb that
> Scott provided. Thanks for your help, Louis
>
> PRESS RELEASE
>
> US Premiere of Ghost Bird takes flight at the Maine International Film
> Festival.
>
> Following its SOLD OUT World Premiere at the Hot Doc's Film Festival
> in Toronto, the conservation documentary Ghost Bird has its US
> Premiere at the Maine International Film Festival Saturday, July 11th.
> Ghost Bird chronicles the controversial rediscovery of the
> Ivory-billed woodpecker in the swamps of eastern Arkansas in 2004. On
> a deeper level the film explores species extinction and how the
> collision of politics, culture, and science shape our understanding of
> the disappearing natural world. Ghost Bird ultimately brings the
> Ivory-bills blurry rediscovery into focus, revealing our uneasy
> relationship with nature and the increasing uncertainty of our place
> within it. The film stars David Sibley, Nancy Tanner and Dr. Jerome
> Jackson, and features a sound track including The Black Keys, The
> Pixies, The White Stripes and an original score by avant-cellist Zok
> Keating.
>
> Ghost Bird premieres in Waterville on Friday, July 11th at 3:30. Two
> additional screenings follow on Saturday the 12th at 12:30 and on
> Monday the 13th at 9:30 PM.
>
>
> An excellent new documentary. Bruce Kirkland, Toronto Sun
>
> Comic, mesmerizing and deeply poignantreminiscent of the work of
> Errol Morris. Brian Johnson, Maclean's
>
> Smart and insightful...never stops short of being captivating.
> Robert Bell, exclaim!
>
> The often thrilling birdwatcher docinsightfully tallies up the
> economic, environmental and social ramifications of the eventwhile
> drawing apt parallels to Bushs war on terror. Radheyan Simonpillai,
> Now Magazine
>
> The film searches for a bird and instead finds a zeitgeist. Angie
> Driscoll, programmer, Hot Docs
>
> The film's trailer and web site can be viewed here:
> www.ghostbirdmovie.com
>
> Maine International Film Festival link:
>
http://www.miff.org/tickets/film.php?id=351&page=2&flm_cat=&date=?id=351&page=2&flm_cat=&date=&forwarded=1
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Subject: Squam Lake Merlins Fledge
From: "Iain MacLeod" <iain.macleod(AT)nhnature.org>
Date: 7 Jul 2009 12:41pm
I stopped by the Merlin nest on the shore of Squam Lake (in Sandwich)
yesterday. I first located this nest on May 7.
My timing was good as the chicks had just fledged. I was able to see
three "branching" Merlin chicks preening and sunning themselves high in
a white pine adjacent to the nesting tree. The chicks were fully
feathered (just a few downy tufts left on their heads). The adult female
was nearby (heard a couple times and flew in once).
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 <http://www.nhnature.org/>
Advancing understanding of ecology by exploring NH's natural world
TRAILS OPEN DAILY MAY 1 - NOVEMBER 1.
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Subject: Birds and Windows
From: "David Govatski" <pondicherry(AT)wildblue.net>
Date: 7 Jul 2009 2:13pm
I am reposting this item that was on VT Birds. It came from my friend Tom
Berriman from the NEK. I know that many of you have similar concerns about
birds hitting our windows. This is what Tom is doing at his home.
"While many of us birders keep a "life list" I also keep a "death List", a
list of birds I feel my actions directly contributed to in the loss of a
bird's life. A few of these are almost unavoidable in today's world: while
driving the interstate at 65 mph, the Yellow-rumped Warbler disintegrates on
the windshield or the Hermit Thrush ricochets off my front bumper to the
middle of the road. But my home windows kill far more than my driving. (I
know that's debatable with using fossil fuels)
We want to attract birds to our homes either by our plantings or some times
by bird feeders but with that comes a responsibility to protect those
visitors from the spread of disease, the neighbor's wandering cat or the
glass windows on the house. The loss of a Black-and-white Warbler and Oven
bird two weeks ago to my windows after the thousands of miles they'd flown
was more than I could take.
I have finished installing birdscreen to half of the windows and by the end
of the week all 15 windows will have netting to prevent bird strikes. I do
not know how well this will work or how the product will hold up over the
months and years here in Vermont. I could not narrow the amount of windows
that needed netting down as at some time it seemed each of them had a bird
hit even if not fatal. The sliding glass patio doors also were the same
problem and got netting. On the garage door that has glass panes, I've opted
for the reflective decals as the netting seemed a problem for the raising
and lowering of the door. I have little faith in these decals but will let
you know how they pan out over time.
While some of you may not have to go to the extremes of netting every
window, you may have one or two problem windows and the netting may work
out. Again I offer no endorsement of this product, time will tell. For
anyone interested in a web site for such products go to: www.birdscreen.com.
If you do decide to try the netting my suggestion is to try it for only one
or two windows at first so you can see if you've measured correctly and you
can live with the look. There are pictures on the web site of how the
netting looks from inside the house and it is not that bad at all."
Originally posted by Tom Berriman on VT Birds.
David Govatski
Jefferson, NH
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Subject: Re: Long-tailed Ducks and migrant shorebirds
From: "Jim Berry" <jim.berry3(AT)verizon.net>
Date: 7 Jul 2009 5:49pm
I don't care what you say, Steve. Summer has just begun!
Jim Berry
Ipswich, Mass.
jim.berry3(AT)verizon.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Mirick" <smirick(AT)comcast.net>
To: "New Hampshire Birds" <NH.Birds(AT)lists.unh.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 8:39 AM
Subject: Long-tailed Ducks and migrant shorebirds
> Also.......southbound migration has started! Fall is here!
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Subject: NH Audubon Fall Pelagic Trip
From: Jon Woolf <jsw(AT)jwoolfden.com>
Date: 7 Jul 2009 10:11pm
Listfolk,
NH Audubon is now taking registrations for our Fall 2009 Tri-State
Pelagic Trip! The plan is basically the same as last fall's trip:
depart from Rye Harbor about 8:00AM aboard the MV _Granite State_,
and spend the day at sea, returning to port between 5:00 and
5:30PM. Master birder Steve Mirick has generously agreed to lead us
in searching the waters along Jeffreys Ledge for whatever seabirds
(and other interesting things) we can find. We chose a date that
will (hopefully) be relatively easy on people's schedules: Tuesday
September 8th, the day after Labor Day.
What can we expect to see? Well, last fall's trip produced a total of
thirty-odd species, including at least eight pelagics: Puffin,
Northern Gannet, Red Phalarope, Red-necked Phalarope, Wilson's
Storm-petrels, and Greater, Manx, and Cory's shearwaters. All are
equally likely this time, and we might well add a few more, such as
Sooty Shearwater, Northern Fulmar, and possibly a jaeger or two.
MV _Granite State_ is a day-excursion boat owned by Granite State
Whale Watch and based in Rye Harbor, NH. She's 65 feet long, with an
onboard snack bar, enclosed main cabin, two passenger decks, and a
full set of navigation and safety equipment. Twin diesel engines give
her a cruising speed of 12-13 knots. Captain Pete Reynolds and his
crew have decades of experience at finding birds and whales in the
Gulf of Maine.
What to Bring: Binoculars and bird guide, of course. Bring a lunch
if you like. A digital camera if you have one -- both our previous
trips, last fall and this spring, produced spectacular photo
opportunities for birds, whales, and dolphins. Weather on the open
water is unpredictable: sometimes hot, sometimes rather
chilly. Prepare for both. Certainly bring sunscreen and
sunglasses. Bring motion-sickness pills if you're vulnerable to
seasickness. _Granite State_'s seating is mostly wooden benches, so
a seatcushion might be a good idea if you have trouble with sitting
on hard surfaces.
We need a minimum of 30 people to pay for the trip. We've set a
maximum of 50 so that the boat doesn't get too crowded. Cost is $65
for NH Audubon members, $85 for non-members. Contact Massabesic
Audubon Center (phone 603-668-2045, email mac(AT)nhaudubon.org) to sign
up. Contact either MAC or me with any questions you might have.
See you on board!
-- Jon Woolf
Manchester, NH
(Massabesic Audubon Center Programming Committee)
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