NH.Birds for Saturday, January 23, 2010

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Subject: More coastal birds
From: "PAMELA HUNT" <biodiva(AT)myfairpoint.net>
Date: 23 Jan 2010 7:56pm

Greetings all,

Becky Suomala and I were also scouting for the superbowl today, and in the
cooperative spirit of Steve's post, here are our sightings of note. Our team,
the "Twitchers in the Rye," restricts itself to that town, and we thus thank
Steve for his good finds on our turf, as well as wishing him and the other
teams luck with finding our goodies. The best of the latter are as follows:

female Barrow's Goldeneye fairly close to shore just south of Concord Point

great looks at a THICK-BILLED MURRE in the surf at the far southern end of
Jenness Beach

at least 2 Horned Larks in the salt marsh just north of Concord Point

Hermit Thrush feeding on flies with robins in the wrack line at Odiorne - near
the relatively new "first settlers" monument along the shore of the cove north
of the Seacoast Science Center. The number of bugs in the wrack and on the
snow was amazing for a January day that started in the single digits and
didn't break the freezing point.

And of course the Odiorne Eastern Screech-Owl was in her/his hole, with a
somewhat surreal collection of photographers from 4 states oggling her/him.

Best of luck to all next Saturday!
Pam Hunt
Penacook, NH


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Subject: 19 Redtail Hawks
From: Tim McEachern <natureswings(AT)live.com>
Date: 23 Jan 2010 8:57pm

Went for a drive to Springfield MA today from Keene and on route 91 from the
Northfield MA exit as a passenger, I counted 19 Red tail hawks 3 had made
kills in the median. This stretch of highway always produces lots of red tails
as there was very little snow in the median.

Tim McEachern

www.natureswings.org

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