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NH.Birds for Friday, October 10, 2008
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Subject: Recent Sitings: Durham, Newmarket, Whale Watch, and Rye
From: "Lauren Kras" <lauren.kras(AT)gmail.com>
Date: 10 Oct 2008 10:36am
Here's the breakdown of the past few days (I've been without internet.. so
trying to catch up). Nothing too stunning other than perhaps the
sharp-tailed sparrows (but not surprising given I was trouncing through a
salt marsh looking at plants)
Whale Watch on Sunday October 5th from Rye NH:- Cory's Shearwater
- Northern Gannet
- Storm-petrel (Leach's was my guess?)
- Jeager (I guessed Parasitic but Steve pointed out that Pomarine Jeager
could be confusing with Parasitic - so I'll leave it at a Jeager and hope
next time I'll be better prepared to distinguish the two - at the time I had
some reason for going with Parasitic... but now I don't remember what it
was)
- tons of gulls of course
- 5 Humpback Whales
- 1 Fin Whale
- 2 SEI WHALES!!!!!
Wednesday 10/8
UNH-
Red Tailed Hawk over the hockey arena on UNH's campus
Awcomin Marsh in Rye
Savannah Sparrow - 1
Yellow Rumped-warbler - 8+
*Saltmarsh Sharp*-*tailed Sparrow - 5+*
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow - 1
Thursday 10/9
UNH to Adams Point to Lamprey River via boat
Red Tailed Hawk over the hockey arena on UNH's campus
Red Tailed Hawk out near Adams Point
Yellow-rumped Warblers (10)- Adams point
Greater Yellowlegs - Lamprey River
Belted Kingfisher - Lamprey River
8 Great Blue Herons - Great Bay
30+ Mallards on Lamprey River
15+ American Black Ducks between Lamprey and Great Bay
Bald Eagle - 1st year bird over channel at Adams Point
Lauren
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Lauren A. Kras
University of New Hampshire
M.S. Student in Plant Biology
http://picasaweb.google.com/lauren.kras
www.lowieisms.blogspot.com
"You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for
you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave
honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The
world needs all you can give."
- Edward O. Wilson
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Subject: Spruce Grouse pair and American Marten on Mount Hale
From: "David Govatski" <pondicherry(AT)wildblue.net>
Date: 10 Oct 2008 2:44pm
Kathi and I hiked the nine mile loop over Mount Hale in the Zealand Valley
this morning. It was a beautiful day for hiking with cool temperatures,
full sunlight and fall foliage. We saw or heard 8 Boreal Chickadees on the
Hale Brook Trail and Lend-A Hand Trail. The best find was when our blue tick
hound spotted an American Marten on the Lend-A-Hand Trail just below the
summit of Hale. She thought it was another dog and was wagging her tail as
she walked over to meet it. The marten would have none of that and quickly
climbed up a tree and perched about 15 feet up and watched us. We watched it
for a few minutes and took some pictures. It then jumped from tree to tree
and left the trail area.
A little ways further down we came across a pair of Spruce Grouse on the
trail. We stopped and watched silently as they searched for seeds in the
trail. The male flew up into a tree and watched the underside of him as he
studied us. We did not see any gray jays on this trip and I think that was a
first for me on this mountain. I really wanted to talk to the gray jays
because I consider them to be the oracles of Delphi and I had some questions
on the stock market. The rest of the walk out on the Zealand Trail was
pretty quiet except for large numbers of American robins feeding on wild
raisins.
David Govatski
Jefferson, NH
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Subject: Phil. Vireo/Moore Fields
From: "sayoung" <sayoung(AT)metrocast.net>
Date: 10 Oct 2008 3:12pm
I ran into this bird before the markets opened. It was trying to tell me
something, but I didn't get it.
Pics:http://www.flickr.com/photos/sa_young/
Otherwise packed with expected sparrows and nothing else real exciting.
Scott Young/Strafford
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Subject: Belated Fulmar and Puffin sightings, Good Gannet show on
whale watch today
From: tbbirds(AT)comcast.net (Terry Bronson)
Date: 10 Oct 2008 4:38pm
With Sunday being the last whale watch trip of the year on
Granite State Whale Watch, I went out with them today in
a last gasp effort to see a couple of pelagic species I'm
missing from my Big Year list. More on today's trip later.
But first, in talking with Beth Bouchet, the onboard naturalist,
I learned of 3 recent sightings of note:
October 1 (by Captain Pete Reynolds somewhere east of
the Isles of Shoals):
Northern Fulmar--1 light morph
Atlantic Puffin--1
October 5 (by Reynolds and Bouchet near Old Scantum Bank):
Atlantic Puffin--1
This is the first Northern Fulmar sighting in NH this year to
my knowledge, and only the second and third (or third and
fourth) Puffin sightings
On today's whale watch, I don't think we ever got more than
6 or 7 miles past the Isles of Shoals, and certainly never got
to Jeffrey's Ledge, since there were lots of whales just a few
miles past the Isles.
Hence, all I could come up with was:
Greater Shearwater--1 flying close to boat, great view
Cory's Shearwater (presumed)--1 flying maybe 1/2 to 3/4
mile away. Manner of flight, light brown upperparts, and no
white on the neck led me to conclude Cory's.
The stars of the day, however, were the Northern Gannets.
I counted 43 on the trip out, beginning only 3 miles out of
Rye Harbor and continuing south of White and Seavey
Islands until maybe 1/2 mile past the islands. At least 15
were adults. Several plunge dives were observed, including
one spectacular dive from well over 100 feet up that this
judge had to score a perfect 10.0.
As for the whales, I got a life whale today--1 and maybe 2
Northern Right Whales, of which only 397 are known to exist.
Not the best view--back and tail flukes only.
Other whales included:
Humpback--5, including 2 mother-and-calf pairs
Fin--2
Minke--1
Also seen:
Common Loon--3
Loon species--1 flying at a distance
White-winged Scoter--2
Double-crested Cormorant--150 migrating, plus many on
the islands
On the way to Rye Harbor this morning, I had a few interesting
sightings:
Palm Warbler--1 western subspecies at the Town Line Marsh
in N. Hampton
Northern Harrier--1 immature hunting behind Little Jack's
Restaurant in Hampton
Double-crested Cormorant--216 migrating, plus 50 in Rye Harbor
Spotted Sandpiper--1 at Ragged Neck
--
Terry Bronson
Hampton Falls, NH
tbbirds(AT)comcast.net
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Subject: Powwow Pond IBA
From: Steve Mirick <smirick(AT)comcast.net>
Date: 10 Oct 2008 5:13pm
A visit this afternoon produced:
Mallard - 13
Pied-billed Grebe - 8
American Coot - 2 (my first of the fall)
Steve Mirick
Bradford, MA
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Subject: Listen to the Mockingbird!
From: "Stephanie Parkinson" <steph(AT)ttlc.net>
Date: 10 Oct 2008 5:44pm
Sitting in the sun at 8:30 this morning singing his heart out at the top of
a pine tree ! (in Concord)
Stephanie Parkinson
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