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Subject: Eurasian Wigeon - Exeter WWTP
From: lauren.kras(AT)gmail.com
Date: 8 Nov 2009 10:27am
Eric Masterson just called at 10:25 am to report that the Eurasian Wigeon has
returned to the Exeter Wastewater Treatment Plant and is providing excellent
views.
Lauren Kras
Dover, NH
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Subject: Red Head Woodpecker in at the Lowell/Dracut/Tygesboro State
Forest
From: loonphotog(AT)comcast.net
Date: 8 Nov 2009 12:17pm
Hi,
I was able to get a few photos of 1 adult and the juvenile
on Wednesday.
The following link takes you to a slideshow -when asked, password - LoonNH
http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c194/Loonphotog/Red%20Head%20Woodpecker/?albumview=slideshow
I was using a 500mm lens with a 2X extension.
John Rockwood
Auburn, NH
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Subject: Pileated Woodpecker in Chatham, NH
From: "Bob Crowley" <crbob(AT)fairpoint.net>
Date: 8 Nov 2009 12:46pm
Just had a male Pileated Woodpecker in the area of my feeders interacting
with the resident Red-bellied Woodpecker. We see the Pileateds quite often
but never in the area of the feeders. The Red-bellied has been comming quite
often for about a year. Goldfinches, Chickadees and Titmice have returned to
the feeder in the last few days but not in any numbers.
Bob Crowley
Chatham, NH
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Subject: HSR: Pack Monadnock Raptor Migration Observatory (08 Nov
2009) 19 Raptors
From: reports(AT)hawkcount.org
Date: 8 Nov 2009 3:48pm
Pack Monadnock Raptor Migration Observatory
Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Nov 08, 2009
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Species Day's Count Month Total Season Total
------------------ ----------- -------------- --------------
Black Vulture 0 0 0
Turkey Vulture 0 0 80
Osprey 0 0 182
Bald Eagle 0 0 50
Northern Harrier 1 4 88
Sharp-shinned Hawk 2 12 1196
Cooper's Hawk 1 5 132
Northern Goshawk 0 2 25
Red-shouldered Hawk 1 23 128
Broad-winged Hawk 0 0 4322
Red-tailed Hawk 13 54 415
Rough-legged Hawk 0 0 0
Golden Eagle 0 0 6
American Kestrel 0 0 135
Merlin 0 0 56
Peregrine Falcon 0 0 30
Unknown Accipiter 0 1 8
Unknown Buteo 0 0 14
Unknown Falcon 0 0 8
Unknown Eagle 0 0 2
Unknown Raptor 1 3 77
Total: 19 104 6954
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Observation start time: 10:15:00
Observation end time: 14:15:00
Total observation time: 3 hours
Official Counter: Lance Tanino
Observers: Cliff Otto, Katie Murphy, Ken Klapper, Nancy Murphy,
Tom Baillio
Visitors:
9 visitors.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH EVERYONE for your great company, spirit, and
assistance all season long.
Weather:
Sunny with light southwest and west breeze.
Raptor Observations:
Great looks like migrating and kiting Red-tailed Hawks. Excellent view of
an adult Sharp-shinned Hawk diving through the spruce trees very close to
the observatory. Beautiful long looks at a juvenile/female Northern
Harrier gracefully flying southwest across the observatory towards Mount
Monadnock.
Non-raptor Observations:
Common Raven (4), American Crow (3), Red-tailed Hawk (3; non-migrants)
========================================================================
Report submitted by Julie Tilden (julie_tilden(AT)hotmail.com)
Pack Monadnock information may be found at:
www.nhaudubon.org
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Subject: Rye owls...
From: "Pat Watts" <pwatts(AT)metrocast.net>
Date: 8 Nov 2009 5:35pm
I may have a chance to go down to the coast tomorrow - were the Saw-Whet or
Screech owls in a location that would be easy to find? I'm interested in
photographing them, so if they're too far away, it might not work, but I'd
love to find them! I can be contacted off the list if you want at
pwatts(AT)metrocast.net.
Pat
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Subject: Funny Video
From: "RICHARD FRECHETTE" <frechette7(AT)myfairpoint.net>
Date: 8 Nov 2009 5:40pm
Hey everybody.... It's me, Andrew, the youngest of the family. I was just
writing in order to send this funny video that my brothe and I made. If you
like it be sure to send it to everyone you know... and if you don't like send
it to everyone you know anyway, you wouldn't want to deprive your friends of
such a great opertunity. Oh ya be sure to tell your friends to send it to all
their friends too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C_CMt1Ue0U
Thank You All,
Andrew
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Subject: Concord Birding Challenge results
From: "PAMELA HUNT" <biodiva(AT)myfairpoint.net>
Date: 8 Nov 2009 6:44pm
Greetings all,
First of all, it's great to find out that as team covered Rye this weekend,
and I await their final results!
Second of all, in response to Captain Kras' comments:
> Today "Team Rye" got kicked off to a great start for the "Town Birding
> Challenge" racking up a total of 90 species in a single day! This is
> more than Concord had over the whole weekend last year an entire week
> earlier (89 according to the email sent last year)! Additionally of
> note is that the "coverable" area of Rye is approximately 1/4 the size
> of Concord as we cannot hitch a boat out and check the Isles of Shoals
> that fall within Rye or the waters surrounding them.
I have two words: Well duh!
If a team covering Rye *DIDN'T* surpass Concord's species we'd probably have
to make them turn in their binoculars! It hardly matters that Concord is four
times larger than Rye as long as Rye has the Atlantic Ocean next to it. In
Lauren's list there are easily 25 species that are quite rare in Concord, so
it makes sense that a Rye total of probably 100 beats Concord's of 75 (details
to follow). The whole point of the "Town Birding Challenge movement" is not to
try to beat each other (the deck is clearly stacked in all sorts of ways) but
to bird locally. The challenge is REALLY to beat yourself next year (or not).
'Nuff said.
So on to Concord. At one point of another, we had 15 birders in the field this
weekend (list at end), but the later date this year, plus what appears to have
been a loss of most half-hardies, resulted in Concord falling far short of
last year's weekend total of 92. By the end of the day yesterday we were at 69
species, and finished at *75* after some mop-up today. All in all, about as I
expected. As you might guess, even in a town as large as Concord, we left few
stones unturned. At the peak yesterday, there were 13 people in 8 teams, and
at noon we all convened for a delicious lunch at Boloco Burrittos (the offical
burritto place of the Concord Birding Challenge). Some of use fanned out for
what turned out to be a VERY uneventful afternoon, and convened toward dusk to
check out the famous Penacook Lake waterfowl roost. Today, five of us did at
least something, which for me included a 15.5 mile Walkabout.
The list:
Canada Goose
Wood Duck (amazingly, only 1 all weekend, at the Penacook Lake waterfowl
roost)
American Black Duck
Mallard
Green-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck (50+ on Penacook Lake)
Lesser Scaup (Turkey Pond)
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye (12 at roost)
Hooded Merganser (150 at roost)
Common Merganser
Wild Turkey
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture (missed last year)
Bald Eagle (missed last year)
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Northern Goshawk (Carter Hill hawk watch)
Red-tailed Hawk
Merlin (seen from INSIDE Boloco Burritos during the group lunch!!)
Killdeer (flyover first thing this morning in Penacook, presumably migrating)
Wilson's Snipe (Morrill's Farm)
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull (ONE, remember my comments about the ocean...)
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl (Locke Road, thanks again Dave!)
Barred Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow (two: one in Penacook and one at Horseshoe Pond, getting late for
inland)
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Gray Catbird (stump dump in Penacook)
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing (generally scarce)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (2-3)
Palm Warbler (Morrill's Farm)
American Tree Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow (Locke Road sod farm)
Savannah Sparrow
Fox Sparrow (quite a few)
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Lapland Longspur (Morrill's Farm)
Snow Bunting
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Purple Finch
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
The Team: Pam Hunt, Jane Rice, Stan McCumber, Bob Quinn, Sara Cairns, Becky
Suomala, Pat Myers, Fern Schneider, Joy Bockius, Mark Suomala, Dave Howe,
Stijn Brandt, Sheridan Brown, Rob Woodward, Kelly ?
The misses (= species seen last year):
Black Scoter (hardly expected)
Long-tailed Duck (even less expected)
Ruffed Grouse
Common Loon (annoyingly absent)
Pied-billed Grebe
Northern Harrier
Peregrine Falcon
Virginia Rail
Greater Yellowlegs
Pectoral Sandpiper
Eastern Phoebe
Blue-headed Vireo
Winter Wren
Hermit Thrush
American Redstart
Chipping Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Rusty Blackbird
Baltimore Oriole
Pine Siskin
Evening Grosbeak
Which brings the two-year tally to 97. Maybe next year we'll find three new
ones!
And speaking of next year, the weekend will be Nov 6-7, so mark your calendars
now! The more the merrier, and remember, we're not trying to beat Rye, just
have fun and bird locally!
Enjoy,
Pam Hunt
exhausted in Penacook, NH (sounds like a letter to Dear Abby!)
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Subject: does anyone have:
From: joseagle(AT)aol.com
Date: 8 Nov 2009 7:36pm
I'll be heading to Jamaica for 2 weeks (in 2 weeks) and am wondering if anyone
has this guide they might want to sell (or any other Jamaican guide book). The
paperback is not due out until December which is too late and the new
hardcover is pretty expensive. So, if you have one you don't want let me know
(off list).
Thanks,
JoAnn O'Shaughnessy
Birds of Jamaica: A Photographic Field Guide ...
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Subject: Massabesic Audubon presents Tom Ricardi ... A MUST SEE!
From: joseagle(AT)aol.com
Date: 8 Nov 2009 7:40pm
Birds of Prey Show: featuring a Live Bald Eagle
Massabesic Audubon Center in Auburn November 14 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Birds of Prey Show featuring a Live Bald Eagle
Saturday, November 14, two shows: 11 am - noon and 1 - 2 pm.
Get a close-up look at a live Bald Eagle, Turkey Vulture and other birds of
prey in this exceptional presentation by Tom Ricardi, a licensed rehabilitator
and wildlife biologist.
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Subject: Yellow Bellied Sap Sucker?
From: mazzaglia1(AT)aol.com
Date: 8 Nov 2009 8:05pm
We saw this guy at Sandy Point Discovery Center in Stratham - we think this is
a Yellow Bellied Sap Sucker?
http://www.joemazzaglia.com/pictureframe.html
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Subject: "Team Rye" Report: 101 species!
From: Lauren Kras <lauren.kras(AT)gmail.com>
Date: 8 Nov 2009 8:22pm
Today "Team Rye" went at it again and tore up the town again. In the
process we turned up 11 new species for the weekend giving us a total
of 101 species!!! I'll split this email into 3 parts: (1) summary of
the day including the new finds, (2) final species list, and (3) some
comments on Pam's comments.
Also of note: the GREATER-WHITE FRONTED GOOSE was spotted in North
Hampton at Runnymede Farms on rt. 111 in with about 50 Canada Geese in
the evening (a good reason NOT to restrict yourself to one town - who
knows what else we missed!)
Sunday Summary:
Today started a bit later for "Team Rye" as we were all incredibly
tired after a late night of owling; however, things got started
quickly as Len "Feeder Stakeout" Medlock turned up a WOOD DUCK which
got the ball rolling. Before long the Miricks called in with CAROLINA
WREN, WINTER WREN, and RUSTY BLACKBIRD (also had another
Orange-crowned Warbler).
Inspired and in need to pull our own weight, Jason Lambert, Ben
Griffith, and Lauren "slave-driver" Kras started working the marshes
and turned up both NELSON'S AND SALTMARSH SPARROWS and then took off
to search for the very challenging coniferous species. After a very
long walk through Rye Town Forest Jason "giggles" Lambert spotted a
BROWN CREEPER and immediately got a call from JoAnn "filling in the
gaps" O'Shaughnessy who had also turned one up.
Things slowed down for a bit before JoAnn called in with a PEREGRINE
FALCON. Quickly after Ben "eyes to the sky" Griffith found a NORTHERN
PINTAIL in with a group of Mallards flying around in circles over Eel
Pond. Then the Miricks called with GADWALL on the OCEAN off Rye
Ledge!
Later in the day Steve "I was trying to nap" Mirick called as Jane
"ever diligent, and ever counting Red-throated Loons" Mirick found a
female HARLEQUIN DUCK flying past Seal Rocks which promptly landed off
the south end of Walis Sands Beach.
The day ended with a spectacular dinner and we decided to save the
Long-eared Owl search for next year.
Final List:
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE 1 Found by Steve Mirick seen by J.
Mirick, B. Griffith (his state bird), L. Kras, L. Medlock, J. Lambert,
and J. O'Shaughnessy. Location: Abenaqui Country Club on Fairway Dr.
Seen only on Saturday there. On Sunday bird was located at Runnymede
farms
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Wood Duck
American Black Duck
Mallard
Gadwall
Northern Pintail
Lesser Scaup 1 Found by B. Griffith and seen by L. Kras.
Location: Rye Ledge on the ocean!
Common Eider
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter 1 Female found by S & J Mirick and L. Medlock, J.
Lambert. Location: Seal Rocks.
Long-tailed Duck
HARLEQUIN DUCK 1 female. Picked out FLYING BY by the ever diligent
Jane Mirick while Steve was napping! Eventually the bird put down and
was located north of Concord Point on the south end of Walis Sands
beach.
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser 10 including 4 in Little Harbor!
Red-breasted Merganser
Wild Turkey Found by J. O'Shaughnessy - the last non-owl of the day.
Red-throated Loon LARGE NUMBERS observed by the Miricks, I do not
have the final totals, but I do know that "there was a Red-throated
Loon thing going on"
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Northern Gannet
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
SORA Found by L. Kras and B. Griffith. Location: Odiorne
American Coot 2 Life bird for J. Mora. Eel Pond
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Greater Yellowlegs
LESSER YELLOWLEGS thanks to JoAnn who covered every nook and cranny of Rye
Sanderling
White-rumped Sandpiper
Purple Sandpiper 2 at Rye Ledge
Dunlin
Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL "Frosty" Location: Odiorne
Great Black-backed Gull
Black Guillemot 1 Found by L. Kras, also seen by B. Griffith.
Location: Little Harbor - seen from Odiorne
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Eastern Screech-Owl 1 Heard only by B. Griffith, L. Kras, J.
Lambert, J. Mora, and Y. Garner
Great Horned Owl 2 Heard only by B. Griffith, L. Kras, J.
Lambert, J. Mora, and Y. Garner.
Barred Owl 1 Heard only by B. Griffith, L. Kras, and J. Lambert.
Northern Saw-whet Owl 1 Heard and seen by L. Medlock, B.
Griffith, L. Kras, and J. Lambert.
Belted Kingfisher 1 Found by L. Kras off Wooden Bridge.
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker Found by J. O'Shaughnessy.
RED-EYED VIREO 1 Found by J. Lambert. Location: Back side of Eel Pond
Blue Jay
American Crow First bird of the day!
Horned Lark
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch VERY CHALLENGING to get due to lack of
coniferous forest in Rye
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper Found after HOURS of searching NOT AN EASY
BIRD IN RYE DUE TO LACK OF FOREST!
MARSH WREN Found B. Griffith and L. Kras. Location: Odiorne
Carolina Wren
Winter Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
Hermit Thrush Found by J. O'Shaughnessy.
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER 2 Found by Steve Mirick seen by J.
Mirick, B. Griffith, L. Kras, L. Medlock, and J. Lambert. One
just south of the Angel pull-off on the west side of 1A. Another at Odiorne
Yellow-rumped Warbler
American Tree Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow Found by L. Medlock and J. Lambert.
Savannah Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow (Ipswich) 2
Nelson's Sparrow Seen by L. Kras while tramping through
Awcomin salt marshes
SALTMARSH SPAROW Seen by L. Kras while tramping through Awcomin salt
marshes
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow Found by J. O'Shaughnessy.
Dark-eyed Junco
Snow Bunting
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird
Common Grackle
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
A Few comments in response to Pam's email:
The biggest challenges for us were finding many of the "wood' species
like Brown Creeper and Red-breasted Nuthatch. Rye has VERY limited
forest area and even more limited coniferous forest area as most of
the town is suburbia. Additionally there is almost NO AGRICULTURAL
land so many sparrow and blackbird species (not to mention Killdeer)
were VERY difficult to turn up. Finally, besides Eel Pond there is
almost NO FRESH WATER in Rye! So many species of duck (like
Ring-necked Duck which we missed) are not easy to get! While Concord
may not have coast line it has many habitats that Rye does not have!!!
Some birds arrive in Concord earlier than the coast (ie - Fox Sparrow
and Common Goldeneye - two birds we did not get despite trying for),
others stay at the coast later into the season than Concord (ie -
Yellowlegs and Winter Wren)
Each section has its advantages and disadvantages and species that are
more likely to be turned up. For example: Screech-owl is much more
likely to be on the coast, Northern Goshawk is much more likely to be
inland/north. We went through the list and made a tally of 20 species
that are almost strictly coastal - but even without those we would
have ended at 81, and given more inland area probably would have added
many more land bird species. That being said, if you have more
species in a smaller area you have less ground to cover and less gas
to use!!!
The truly interesting/beneficial thing about the local birding
challenge is how well only 7 of us worked in covering areas and
turning up seasonally and annually "good birds" for the state. The
challenge forced us to make better use of our resources and time to
maximize coverage of an area. If we worked together every weekend for
a day or every other weekend for a day, especially during rarity
season, we would probably turn up many interesting birds and have many
interesting records of birds (ie- very late Red-eyed Vireo on
11/7/2009).
Given that NH has many fewer birders than states like MA we need to
maximize our efficiency and not all get into ruts of checking the same
places half-heartedly expecting to see the same things. If any
coastal birders are interested I vote that we organize and split up
the coast every Saturday morning and bird a section very hard to see
what we can turn up. It leaves us all a day and a half of each
weekend to bird our favorite little nook or cranny but may also allow
us to more efficiently cover areas and turn things up!
Also, this challenge forces birders to think about the places they
bird in a new context. Where do you find species like Brown Creeper
in Rye? In many ways it opens our eyes to new potential birding
hotspots. How often do we check the same place on one side of the
street but not the other because we follow the same routine and that
spot isn't part of that routine?
--
Lauren "Coach/Capitan" Kras
on behalf of: B. Griffith, J. Lambert, L. Medlock, J. and S. Mirick,
J. Mora, and J. O'Shaughnessy (honorary members: Lisa Medlock, Jodi
Alger, and Yvette Garner)... aka "Team Rye"
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