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Subject: NO Tundra Swans, Lower Kimball Pond, Chatham, NH and
Fruburg, ME Today
From: "Bob Crowley" <crbob(AT)fairpoint.net>
Date: 10 Nov 2009 8:00am
They have not been seen since late afternoon, yesterday, the 9th when they
took off flying to the South.
Bob Crowley
Chatham, NH
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Subject: Soo-nipi Chapter meeting
From: "Ruth White" <rbwhite117(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 10 Nov 2009 10:19am
Program: NH EAGLE RECOVERY PROGRAM
Friday, December 11, 2009
Chris Martin, Senior Biologist at NH Audubon will speak on the success of
the Eagle Recovery Program. It seems like it wasnt very long ago that we
had the first successful nest on Lake Umbagog.
Refreshments at 7 Program 7:30
Tracy Library Main Street ,New London
Contact person Ruth White 763-4893
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Subject: Re: Soo-nipi Chapter meeting
From: "Ruth White" <rbwhite117(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 10 Nov 2009 10:46am
Let's try the November meeting first!!! ....... sorry
Program: PANAMA BIRDING at CANOPY TOWERS
Friday Nov.13 th
Join us as Mark Suomala takes us on a tour of the birds of Panama
Refreshments at 7 Program 7:30
Tracy Library Main Street ,New London
Contact person Ruth White 763-4893
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Subject: Newington Peregrine
From: "Daniel M. Keefe" <daniel.keefe(AT)gmail.com>
Date: 10 Nov 2009 2:10pm
Falcon back on the light poles of the General Sullivan this afternoon.
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Subject: Shrike Durham
From: "Daniel M. Keefe" <daniel.keefe(AT)gmail.com>
Date: 10 Nov 2009 2:11pm
Had a shrike in our yard this morning, first of the season.
Dan
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Subject: Late Field Sparrow, Bald Eagle(s) in Ashland
From: "Iain MacLeod" <iain.macleod(AT)nhnature.org>
Date: 10 Nov 2009 2:12pm
I was surprised to have a late Field Sparrow in my yard over the
weekend. I first saw it Sunday, then again yesterday and heard it this
morning.
Also both yesterday and Sunday, a juvenile Bald Eagle put in an
appearance overhead. On Sunday it chased a Raven that was carrying a
good sized piece of meat in it's bill. They had a spectacular dog fight
and the Raven eventually dropped the food and the eagle tumbled down
into the trees on the opposite hill to retrieve it. I didn't see it come
back up in the next half hour, but did see a Raven later with an equally
large chunk of meat in it's bill.
Yesterday, while three migrant Red-tailed Hawks caught a thermal over my
house, a Bald Eagle (identical age class as Sunday's bird) circled up
with two Ravens in the same thermal. The red-tails headed south, the
eagle went west over Ashland village and towards the river. I suspect
(but will never know) that it was the same bird. Perhaps it and the
Ravens found a carcass.
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
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Subject: Bird Quiz
From: "Iain MacLeod" <iain.macleod(AT)nhnature.org>
Date: 10 Nov 2009 2:18pm
Here is a little Mystery Photo Quiz
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2632/4092795359_cf285fd685.jpg
Can you identify this bird?
Photographed in Ashland, NH yesterday.
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: Re: Bird Quiz
From: Jeremiah Trimble <jtrimble(AT)oeb.harvard.edu>
Date: 10 Nov 2009 2:25pm
Hi Ian,
Cool looking Mourning Dove!
Jeremiah
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Iain MacLeod <iain.macleod(AT)nhnature.org>wrote:
> Here is a little Mystery Photo Quiz
>
> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2632/4092795359_cf285fd685.jpg
>
> Can you identify this bird?
>
> Photographed in Ashland, NH yesterday.
>
> 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.
>
>
--
Jeremiah Trimble
Curatorial Associate - Ornithology
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Harvard University
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
phone: 617-495-2471
fax: 617-495-5667
email: jtrimble(AT)oeb.harvard.edu
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Subject: Re: Bird Quiz
From: mthompson2100(AT)gmail.com
Date: 10 Nov 2009 2:33pm
Hey ian!
Pretty rock dove?
Mike
------Original Message------
From: Iain MacLeod
Sender: owner-NH.Birds(AT)lists.unh.edu
To: Bird List
ReplyTo: Bird List
Subject: Bird Quiz
Sent: Nov 10, 2009 2:18 PM
Here is a little Mystery Photo Quiz
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2632/4092795359_cf285fd685.jpg
Can you identify this bird?
Photographed in Ashland, NH yesterday.
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.
Sent on the Sprint. Now Network from my BlackBerry.
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Subject: Re: Bird Quiz
From: "Jim Berry" <jim.berry3(AT)verizon.net>
Date: 10 Nov 2009 3:46pm
iain, that's the only leucistic MODO i've ever seen. jim
Jim Berry
Ipswich, Mass.
jim.berry3(AT)verizon.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Iain MacLeod" <iain.macleod(AT)nhnature.org>
To: "New Hampshire Birds" <NH.Birds(AT)lists.unh.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:18 PM
Subject: Bird Quiz
> Here is a little Mystery Photo Quiz
>
> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2632/4092795359_cf285fd685.jpg
>
> Can you identify this bird?
>
> Photographed in Ashland, NH yesterday.
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Subject: RE: Bird Quiz
From: "Iain MacLeod" <iain.macleod(AT)nhnature.org>
Date: 10 Nov 2009 4:07pm
Okay,
Not that hard. It's a Mourning Dove. This leucistic individual has been
around my yard for nearly a year. I first saw it in a snow storm last
winter and at first I thought it was covered in snow flakes (!). It
hangs around with the "regular" doves. I'm surprised a Cooper's Hawk
hasn't snapped it up by now!
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2462/4093031583_b790b4fb45.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2681/4093031315_b4d8919d04.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2586/4093031013_f4363e6e60.jpg
I finally had a chance yesterday to snap a bunch of digiscope images
through a window.
Pretty bird!
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
TRAILS OPEN DAILY MAY 1 - NOVEMBER 1.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-NH.Birds(AT)lists.unh.edu [mailto:owner-NH.Birds(AT)lists.unh.edu]
On Behalf Of Jim Berry
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:46 PM
To: New Hampshire Birds
Subject: Re: Bird Quiz
iain, that's the only leucistic MODO i've ever seen. jim
Jim Berry
Ipswich, Mass.
jim.berry3(AT)verizon.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Iain MacLeod" <iain.macleod(AT)nhnature.org>
To: "New Hampshire Birds" <NH.Birds(AT)lists.unh.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:18 PM
Subject: Bird Quiz
> Here is a little Mystery Photo Quiz
>
> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2632/4092795359_cf285fd685.jpg
>
> Can you identify this bird?
>
> Photographed in Ashland, NH yesterday.
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Subject: NH Coast and Great Bay (RT Loon migration, Harlequin Duck)
From: Steve Mirick <smirick(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 10 Nov 2009 5:32pm
Jane and I spent the morning birding along the coast today. Great
conditions with flat seas, overcast skies and light west winds. Large
numbers of sea ducks and loons covered the coast line, but the highlight
was a nice morning flight of Red-throated Loons. Later, I scanned Great
Bay from Sunset Farm for Tundra Swans.....no luck.
Location: - Seabrook Beach
Notes: - 1 1/2 hour Sea Watch from 7:10 AM to 8:40 AM, plus a few
additional migrants later. Bird migration slowed considerably by 8:30 AM.
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Canada Goose - 30 - Migrating in one flock.
Greater Scaup - 3 migrating
Common Eider - 57 - Several small flocks moving south.
Surf Scoter - 1 migrating
White-winged Scoter - 5 migrating
Black Scoter - 9 migrating
Long-tailed Duck - 5 migrating
Bufflehead - 1 migrating
Red-throated Loon - 351 migrating - Steady flow with pulses of up to 12
birds per group. Lots more scattered along coastline.
Common Loon - 20 migrating. Much higher numbers scattered along coast line
Northern Gannet - 5 migrating
Great Blue Heron - 1 - High flying bird heading south.
Also along the coast
HARLEQUIN DUCK - 1 female continues along the south side of Wallis Sands
Beach toward Concord Point.
Black Scoter - 158 counted off North Beach in Hampton
American Kestrel - 1 female at Yankee Fisherman's Coop
Merlin - 1 migrating south past Little Boar's Head
Black Guillemot - 5 total with 3 off Seabrook Beach and 2 off Pulpit Rocks.
American Pipit - 9 at Ragged Neck in Rye.
Location: - Sunset Farm, Greenland
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Brant - 1 - Adult continues.
Canada Goose - 536 (nothing odd mixed in)
Gadwall - 1 - Male.
American Wigeon - 10 - No sign of Eurasian Wigeon today.
American Black Duck - 336
Mallard - 10
Greater Scaup - 700 - Nothing odd mixed in.
Bufflehead - 30
Hooded Merganser - 7
Common Merganser - 7
Horned Grebe - 7
Double-crested Cormorant - 10
Great Blue Heron - 8
GREAT EGRET - 1 - Late bird continues.
Dunlin - 20
Steve & Jane Mirick
Bradford, MA
This report was generated with help from eBird v2(http://ebird.org/nh)
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Subject: Powwow Pond, Kingston
From: d.skillman(AT)comcast.net
Date: 10 Nov 2009 6:18pm
Waterfowl survey for NH Audubon of Powwow Pond with Warren Trested:
Canada Goose (14)
Mallard (48)
Bufflehead (1)
Pied-billed Grebe (1)
American Coot (20)
Green-winged Teal (1)
Also, birds are starting to return to my seed and suet feeders in East Kingston
after a 2 month spell of very few birds.
Dennis Skillman
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Subject: Lake Massabesic/Exeter WWTP
From: Cliff Otto <ottoc.bb.etc(AT)gmail.com>
Date: 10 Nov 2009 6:24pm
There was a Common Loon close to the shore at the park off Londonderry
Turnpike and a female Northern Shoveler at the Exeter Waste Water Treatment
Plant this afternoon. Also noted at the WWTP were a couple of Double-crested
Cormorants and one Great Cormorant along with a very active bunch (about 12)
of Snow Buntings and a male Green-winged Teal. Oh, and a Clouded Sulphur
butterfly.
Cliff Otto
Manchester
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Subject: Re: Bird Quiz
From: Phyllis Yaffie <pyaffie(AT)gmail.com>
Date: 10 Nov 2009 7:05pm
Ruffed Grouse?
Phyllis Yaffie
Deerfield, NH
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Iain MacLeod <iain.macleod(AT)nhnature.org>
wrote:
> Here is a little Mystery Photo Quiz
>
> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2632/4092795359_cf285fd685.jpg
>
> Can you identify this bird?
>
> Photographed in Ashland, NH yesterday.
>
> 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: Greater White-fronted Goose and Coastal Additions
From: Lauren Kras <lauren.kras(AT)gmail.com>
Date: 10 Nov 2009 8:04pm
Today, I spent a few hours in the coastal area. I was joined by
Jessie Knapp (woohoo!) for a bit who had relocated the GREATER
WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE at Runnymede Farms again. The bird continued
throughout the day there feeding with 124 Canada Geese.
Better photo than my phone-scoped shot:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37030739@N05/4094288442/
A Few other notes:
Purple Sandpiper - 5 at Seal Rocks
Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 at Jenness Beach with 75 other gulls
Pied-billed Grebe - 2 at Eel Pond ... now our lonely little PBGR has a friend.
I also had 50+ seals along the coast - the majority of which were at
Seal Rocks..
Also, here's a link to a better photo of the Harlequin Duck that
continues to be seen:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37030739@N05/4093541655/
Finally, two shots of the Tundra Swans (number 303 for the year):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37030739@N05/4091621818/
and
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37030739@N05/4090855883/
Lauren Kras
Dover, NH
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Subject: Re: Bird Quiz
From: "Bob Crowley" <crbob(AT)fairpoint.net>
Date: 10 Nov 2009 10:11pm
How about a Snow Bunting?
Bob Crowley
Chatham, NH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Iain MacLeod" <iain.macleod(AT)nhnature.org>
To: "New Hampshire Birds" <NH.Birds(AT)lists.unh.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:18 PM
Subject: Bird Quiz
> Here is a little Mystery Photo Quiz
>
> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2632/4092795359_cf285fd685.jpg
>
> Can you identify this bird?
>
> Photographed in Ashland, NH yesterday.
>
> 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: Re: Bird Quiz - Leucistic Dove
From: Deanneart(AT)aol.com
Date: 10 Nov 2009 11:06pm
Here's a pic I took of a Leucistic MODO I had here in the yard in Nashua in
May of '07
_http://www.deanneart.com/2008/2007-05-16LeucisticDove5112.jpg_
(http://www.deanneart.com/2008/2007-05-16LeucisticDove5112.jpg)
Deanne Fortnam
Nashua, NH
In a message dated 11/10/2009 3:46:47 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
jim.berry3(AT)verizon.net writes:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2632/4092795359_cf285fd685.jpg
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Subject: blackbird roost
From: "Eric Masterson" <emasterson(AT)plcnh.org>
Date: 10 Nov 2009 11:13pm
A couple of weeks ago during the height of the blackbird roost in Portsmouth
I decided to try to do a proper count, given that estimates to date had been
widely divergent. I figured that a roost of this size deserved a good
estimate. So I set up camera and took a picture every two minutes for the
duration of the 50 minute roost, and then counted the birds in each
photo!!!!! Thus it has taken me two weeks to get the results (counting one
pic per night). The birds passed through the camera's field of view in five
seconds, there are 660 intervals of five seconds in 50 mins, multiplied by
the average number of birds per photo and the result
is...............343,000 birds. The count was conducted from the bridge
behind the VW dealership from where I could see all the various streams or
rivers of birds.
Apart from that not much birding in recent weeks. A photo of the Exeter
Eurasian wigeon can be seen at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20225164@N05/?saved=1
This bird flew toward the bay, where I saw it later from Sandy Point. It is
likely the one bird commuting back and forth. Other birds at the wastewater
Sunday included:
Lesser Scaup - 38
Ruddy Duck - 1
American Wigeon - 6
I managed to catch up with the harlequin (thanks Steve) and the GWFG at
Runnymede. Also a couple of bonepartes gulls on Spofford last week
(adults).
Eric Masterson
Executive Director
Piscataquog Land Conservancy
www.plcnh.org
Phone: 487-3331
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Subject: RE: blackbird roost
From: "Eric Masterson" <emasterson(AT)plcnh.org>
Date: 10 Nov 2009 11:20pm
That should read grackle roost.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-NH.Birds(AT)lists.unh.edu [mailto:owner-NH.Birds(AT)lists.unh.edu] On
Behalf Of Eric Masterson
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 11:13 PM
To: New Hampshire Birds
Subject: blackbird roost
A couple of weeks ago during the height of the blackbird roost in Portsmouth
I decided to try to do a proper count, given that estimates to date had been
widely divergent. I figured that a roost of this size deserved a good
estimate. So I set up camera and took a picture every two minutes for the
duration of the 50 minute roost, and then counted the birds in each
photo!!!!! Thus it has taken me two weeks to get the results (counting one
pic per night). The birds passed through the camera's field of view in five
seconds, there are 660 intervals of five seconds in 50 mins, multiplied by
the average number of birds per photo and the result
is...............343,000 birds. The count was conducted from the bridge
behind the VW dealership from where I could see all the various streams or
rivers of birds.
Apart from that not much birding in recent weeks. A photo of the Exeter
Eurasian wigeon can be seen at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20225164@N05/?saved=1
This bird flew toward the bay, where I saw it later from Sandy Point. It is
likely the one bird commuting back and forth. Other birds at the wastewater
Sunday included:
Lesser Scaup - 38
Ruddy Duck - 1
American Wigeon - 6
I managed to catch up with the harlequin (thanks Steve) and the GWFG at
Runnymede. Also a couple of bonepartes gulls on Spofford last week
(adults).
Eric Masterson
Executive Director
Piscataquog Land Conservancy
www.plcnh.org
Phone: 487-3331
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