The Mascoma chapter of ASNH field trip to Plum Island on Sunday was
quite successful, despite the overcast sky, persistent drizzle, and a
complete absence of warblers. Highlights were seeing White-faced Ibis in
Newbury, MA; a breeding-plumage Ruff at Joppa Flats, a Summer Tanager in
Hampton, NH and the Eastern Screech owl in Greenland, NH.  Special
thanks to Rick Heil for showing us the White-faced Ibis, Ken and Helen
Lidstone and family for showing us the Summer Tanager and Leonard
Medlock for *telling* us about the Summer Tanager and showing us the
Ruff. 

 

Special thanks from *me* to JoAnn O'Shaughnessy for her networking
skills that let us find all those goodies. 

 

Other birds of note at Plum Island and Joppa Flats:

 

Hundreds of D.C.Cormorants

Glossy Ibis

Mute Swan

Northern Pintail

Gadwall 

Green-winged Teal

Bufflehead 

R.B. Merganser

Osprey

N.Harrier

American Kestrel

Merlin

Greater Yellowlegs

Lesser Yellowlegs

Willet

Least Sandpiper

Common Tern

B.H.Vireo

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Eastern Towhee(lots)

Savannah Sparrow

 

 
Mark Krenitsky

 

 


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