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Subject: Evening Grosbeaks in Jefferson
From: "David Govatski" <pondicherry(AT)wildblue.net>
Date: 19 Mar 2010 10:52am
We are continuing to see Evening Grosbeaks visiting our yard in Jefferson.
Most of the feeders are in for the season because of reported bear sightings
in Littleton and Lancaster but I still have a sunflower tray feeder out
during daylight hours. Today we had 6 Evening Grosbeaks of which 4 were
female. A couple with feeders off of Gould Road in Bethlehem reported 20
Evening Grosbeaks and a first of the year sapsucker on Wednesday.
On Wednesday I spent the morning snowshoeing around the Gibbs Brook Old
Growth Area on the side of Mount Peirce and Jackson in Crawford Notch.
Excellent snow crust conditions to get around. Nothing unusual but good
numbers of Golden-crowned Kinglets and Red-breasted Nuthatches. At noon on
Wednesday I went to the Base Station Road in Bretton Woods hoping to see
woodpeckers. At my first stop at Dartmouth Brook I saw a daytime flying bat
that was foraging along the edge of the road. As I drove further up the road
I encountered 6 more bats all foraging along the road. The last bat I saw
was at 2600 feet in elevation which I felt was pretty unusual for March
17th. The temperature was warm, in the mid-40's with only a light wind and
full sunlight. There was 1-2 feet of snow in the woods. Hopefully just a
warm day for the bats to get out and forage and not a symptom of white-nosed
syndrome which has been wiping out bat populations in the northeast.
David Govatski
Jefferson, NH
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Subject: Mississippi Kite directions - Newmarket
From: Phil Brown <downtownpab(AT)yahoo.com>
Date: 19 Mar 2010 11:55am
I've had a couple of requests for directions to the kite (but no further reports
of the bird):
The general area the bird was seen (and where it nested the last 2 years) is the
junction of Route 152 (Main Street) and the junction of Maplecrest Street about
1 mile west of downtown Newmarket. The actual nest tree is located just a
couple hundred feet or so west of this junction on the north side of the road,
but apparently, the nest has blown down.
If anyone can provide more accurate directions, please do so.
Good luck to both birders and bird - which may have a tough time finding food
this early in the season.
Phil Brown
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Phil Brown <downtownpab(AT)yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I just spoke with Muriel Moore from Newmarket, who
> reports observing a
> > Mississippi Kite in a snag near its old nest on Main
> Street in Newmarket.
> > She is familiar with the kites from her constant
> observations of them from
> > last year, and described the bird well. She doesn't
> have a camera, so
> > someone with one may want to check it out for the
> documentation.
> > Despite being 600+ miles out of range, this sounds
> incredibly early for a
> > kite in our part of the US!
> >
> > Phil Brown (reporting for Muriel Moore)
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Subject: Bald Eagle, Rusty Blackbird, Song Sparrow, Killdeer, Black
Duck, 16 Common Mergansers, etc. Hancock
From: Lillian Stokes <stokesbirds(AT)earthlink.net>
Date: 19 Mar 2010 12:01pm
The ice has just opened up on Powder Mill Pond in front of us and we have had a
flood of migrants.
In the past 2 days we have had:
Bald Eagle, Adult, 1
One Rusty Blackbird in a flock of about 60+ Red-winged Blackbirds, Grackles and
Brown-headed Cowbirds
Common Mergansers, 16
Wood Duck, 1
Mallards, 5
Black Ducks, 8
Song Sparrow, 1
Killdeer, 2
Canada Geese, 6
Eastern Bluebird, 2
American Robins, 70+
Purple Finch, 2
Tree Swallows, 10+
Lillian and Don Stokes
Powder Mill Pond
Hancock
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Subject: Mew Gull - Yes Exeter WWTP
From: lauren.kras(AT)gmail.com
Date: 19 Mar 2010 12:02pm
The Mew/Common Gull is currently at the Exeter WWTP.
Lauren Kras
Ben Griffith
Len Medlock
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Subject: Mississippi Kites in Newmarket - Too early
From: Steve Mirick <smirick(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 19 Mar 2010 12:03pm
Hi All. While one ever knows with respect to birds......I'd suggest
that people not make any long distance drives in order find the kites
just yet. My guess is that this is a case of mistaken ID.
Mississippi Kites generally don't cross north INTO THE US IN TEXAS until
the beginning of April and thus they are not likely to arrive up here
until much later. The first report from last year in Newmarket was on
May 13th and there were certainly birders keeping a close eye on them!
There simply is no reason for a Kite to be back and nothing for them to eat!
I'll gladly "swallow my words" if this proves to be accurate, but I'd
certainly place a bet that they aren't back yet if I were a betting man!
Steve Mirick
Bradford, MA
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Subject: Two Juvenile Coopers Hawks-Northwest Hollis
From: "Gail Coffey" <gcoffey(AT)tnc.org>
Date: 19 Mar 2010 12:32pm
Two juvenile Coopers Hawks were in our yard yesterday making loud
kik-kik-kik sounds and then flew off into deeper woods. They appeared to
be a pair, but had juvenile plumage - brown back with white patches,
banded tail, and barred breast.
Also saw Northern Goshawk in woods near our house - there was a nesting
pair in conservation land near our house last year so hope they will
return-two juveniles fledged and spent the summer in the same woods.
Gail Coffey
Hollis, NH
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Subject: Fox Sparrow - Keene Airport
From: Lance Tanino <lance.tanino(AT)gmail.com>
Date: 19 Mar 2010 12:47pm
A Fox Sparrow (FOY) was seen with a large flock of Dark-eyed Juncos
along the forested trail across from the Dillant-Hopkins (Keene)
Airport parking lot.
Lance Tanino
Keene, NH
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Subject: RE: Mississippi Kites in Newmarket - Too early
From: "Steve Hale" <steve.hale(AT)unh.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 2010 1:43pm
Steve's point is well taken. Though I remember swallowing my own words when
I firmly believed those birds would not be able to deliver food fast enough
to fledge young.
But ... still, it's way to early for obligate insectivores to be in New
England.
Stephen R. Hale
Joan and James Leitzel Center
138 Parsons Hall
23 Academic Way
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824
steve.hale(AT)unh.edu
(W)603.862.4758
(H)603.767.7895
(F)603.862.1251
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-NH.Birds(AT)lists.unh.edu [mailto:owner-NH.Birds(AT)lists.unh.edu] On
Behalf Of Steve Mirick
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 12:04 PM
To: New Hampshire Birds
Subject: Mississippi Kites in Newmarket - Too early
Hi All. While one ever knows with respect to birds......I'd suggest that
people not make any long distance drives in order find the kites just yet.
My guess is that this is a case of mistaken ID.
Mississippi Kites generally don't cross north INTO THE US IN TEXAS until the
beginning of April and thus they are not likely to arrive up here until much
later. The first report from last year in Newmarket was on May 13th and
there were certainly birders keeping a close eye on them!
There simply is no reason for a Kite to be back and nothing for them to eat!
I'll gladly "swallow my words" if this proves to be accurate, but I'd
certainly place a bet that they aren't back yet if I were a betting man!
Steve Mirick
Bradford, MA
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Subject: Pickering Ponds
From: Michael <nhsun100(AT)yahoo.com>
Date: 19 Mar 2010 2:54pm
This late morning at Pickering Ponds in Rochester, NH:
Red-tailed hawks - 2
Cooper's hawk
Black-capped chickadees
American robins
Common grackles
Goldfinches
Song sparrows
Herring gulls
Greater black-backed gulls
Canada geese
Mallards
Red-winged blackbirds
Tufted titmice
Cardinals
Killdeer
Crows
Mourning doves
17 species
Michael Pachomski
Lynn Roberge
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Subject: Evans Notch Boreals and an early arrival
From: Miklos Oyler <oylermik(AT)hotmail.com>
Date: 19 Mar 2010 3:17pm
I spent 24 hours hiking/birding Evans Notch from yesterday into today. The
weather was amazing and the birds were as well. I left from the Cold River
Campground and traveled up the Basin Trail to the Basin Rim Trail to the
Meeder Ridge Trail. I camped just below the Alpine Zone of Eagle Crag and then
returned via the Baldface Circle Trail and 113.
Mik Oyler
Fryeburg, ME
Location: Carroll County, NH, US
Observation date: 3/19/10
Number of species: 30
Ruffed Grouse 1
Spruce Grouse 2 (1 approaching Mt. Meeder and another approaching Eagle
Crag that didn't move an inch as I passed within 10' of him!)
Red-tailed Hawk 1 (over Eagle Crag)
Mourning Dove 2
Barred Owl 1
Downy Woodpecker 4
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 4
Blue-headed Vireo 1 (singing as I descended Eagle Crag, unlikely early
arrival!)
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 4
Common Raven 4
Black-capped Chickadee 20
Boreal Chickadee 4 (2 approaching Mt. Meeder and 2 that came within reach
of me below Eagle Crag)
Tufted Titmouse 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch 14
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Brown Creeper 16
Golden-crowned Kinglet 6
American Robin 20
European Starling 4
American Tree Sparrow 3
Song Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 8
Red-winged Blackbird 2
Common Grackle 2
Red Crossbill 2 (a male and female in the Cold River Campground parking
area)
White-winged Crossbill 12 (2 or three groups all seen from Eagle Crag,
very vocal)
American Goldfinch 2
Evening Grosbeak 2 (flyovers as I descended)
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Subject: Re: Fox Sparrow - Keene Airport
From: wendy chatel <wendychatel(AT)gmail.com>
Date: 19 Mar 2010 4:05pm
I had 2 Fox Sparrows under my feeders today with a small flock of Juncos.
Seems like an odd time of year for juncos. They have not been here for
months and I didn't have any Fox Sparrows at all last year so it was a real
treat. The goldfinches are in abundance and are turning quite yellow.
Also, 2 mourning doves under the feeder. Otherwise, the same collection of
chicadees, titmice, red and white breasted nuthatches, bluejays, downy and
hairy woodpeckers at the feeders and many robins in the field.
Wendy Chatel
Wolfeboro
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Lance Tanino <lance.tanino(AT)gmail.com>wrote:
> A Fox Sparrow (FOY) was seen with a large flock of Dark-eyed Juncos
> along the forested trail across from the Dillant-Hopkins (Keene)
> Airport parking lot.
>
> Lance Tanino
> Keene, NH
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Subject: Osprey
From: Hank Chary <hankchary(AT)hotmail.com>
Date: 19 Mar 2010 4:41pm
I checked the osprey nest visible from Chapman's Landing today and saw a bird
sitting on the nest. I didn't have my scope with me but I judged the bird to
be an osprey. Nothing on the nest along Bay Road in Newmarket yet.
Hank Chary
Newmarket
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Subject: RE: Mississippi Kites in Newmarket - Too early
From: "Iain MacLeod" <iain.macleod(AT)nhnature.org>
Date: 19 Mar 2010 4:42pm
Just to add a little perspective, so far in 2010 not a single
Mississippi Kite has migrated through either of the two main spring
watch sites in Mexico or Texas. At Chavarrillo, Veracruz, Mexico, where
they have conducted daily counts since March 1, 12,000 "hawks" have
migrated through (mostly TVs so far). In a normal season 3,500-7,000
Mississippi Kites pass through there. Last year their first was on April
1 (which was very early); their next was not until April 17 and the peak
flight day was not until April 20, when 2,395 passed through. So far
none have come through Bentsen Rio Grande Valley State Park in Mission,
Texas.
I also noted that on the Rare Bird Alert from this week, it mentioned a
report of a Broad-winged Hawk in NH on March 13. That too seems very
unlikely this early. Only 29 have passed through Chavarrillo so far (and
25 of those were on Monday the 15th). Last year the peak flight day
through Chavarrillo was on April 4 (when 23,259 BWs passed through).
Broad-wings will not be arriving in NH until well into April.
Iain MacLeod
Executive Director
Squam Lakes Natural Science Center
23 Science Center Road,
PO Box 173, Holderness, NH 03245
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-NH.Birds(AT)lists.unh.edu [mailto:owner-NH.Birds(AT)lists.unh.edu]
On Behalf Of Steve Mirick
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 12:04 PM
To: New Hampshire Birds
Subject: Mississippi Kites in Newmarket - Too early
Hi All. While one ever knows with respect to birds......I'd suggest
that people not make any long distance drives in order find the kites
just yet. My guess is that this is a case of mistaken ID.
Mississippi Kites generally don't cross north INTO THE US IN TEXAS until
the beginning of April and thus they are not likely to arrive up here
until much later. The first report from last year in Newmarket was on
May 13th and there were certainly birders keeping a close eye on them!
There simply is no reason for a Kite to be back and nothing for them to
eat!
I'll gladly "swallow my words" if this proves to be accurate, but I'd
certainly place a bet that they aren't back yet if I were a betting man!
Steve Mirick
Bradford, MA
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Subject: Re: Osprey
From: Ken Cox <kencox5(AT)gmail.com>
Date: 19 Mar 2010 7:11pm
This past Wednesday I observed thru binocs a large bird on the
same platform and also suspected an Osprey. So I got a closer view through
the scope and found it was Red-tailed Hawk which was shortly later joined by
another. I don't think the exposed platform quite matches the typical
nesting site (forests and woodlands), but if Red-tails will nest on a NYC
building, why not an Osprey platform. Time will tell.
Ken
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Hank Chary <hankchary(AT)hotmail.com> wrote:
> I checked the osprey nest visible from Chapman's Landing today and saw a
> bird
> sitting on the nest. I didn't have my scope with me but I judged the bird
> to
> be an osprey. Nothing on the nest along Bay Road in Newmarket yet.
>
>
>
> Hank Chary
>
> Newmarket
>
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Subject: Concord/Laconia/Webster Lake
From: Cliff Otto <ottoc.bb.etc(AT)gmail.com>
Date: 19 Mar 2010 8:17pm
Horseshoe Pond--Mute Swan still there with a number of RWBB
Turtle Pond--pair of Hooded Mergansers
end of Water St in Laconia (Lake Winnisquam)--pair of Common Mergansers
Webster Lake--three head of Buffle.
As I was regarding the swan, someone driving by stopped and asked if I saw
all the white baby swans. Short-necked Ring-billed Swans???
Cliff Otto
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Subject: Lesser Black-backed Gull, Meadowlark -- Rochester; Mew Gull
Update
From: Benjamin Griffith <bgriffith(AT)gmail.com>
Date: 19 Mar 2010 9:53pm
Lauren and I made a quick stop by the Rochester Wastewater Treatment
Facility this morning. There weren't many gulls there, but there were
about 400 gulls roosting in a field just east of Pickering Ponds along
Pickering Road.
Highlights from the field:
Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 adult
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 flyover
Eastern Meadowlark - 1 male seen and heard singing FOY
The Mew Gull moved from the Exeter WWTP at around noon to Swazey
Parkway and was present for much of the early afternoon. It spent
about half an hour sitting on the dock at the south end of the
parkway.
Ben Griffith
Dover, NH
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