I saw what I think was one Double-crested Cormorant on the north end of
Goose Pond, Hanover, NH, this afternoon.  It was almost hit by a waterskier
boat but ducked under the water at the last minute.

Judith Reeve, Hanover, NH


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>  1. nighthawks and other UV birds
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> Date:    Sat, 3 Sep 2011 11:56:41 -0400
> From:    george clark <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: nighthawks and other UV birds
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> Relatively numerous Common Nighthawks were present yesterday evening
> (Sept. 2) in the vicinity of the Connecticut River around the Ledyard
> Bridge (between Hanover, NH, and Norwich, VT) between 6:12 and 7:19
> pm. They were spread out and difficult to count, but I estimated at
> least 41 nighthawks were present. The largest number seen at any one
> time was 9 birds. Between 6:50 and 7:06 pm, a total of 37 nighthawks
> were seen on the south side of the Ledyard Bridge and strung out while
> flying northward along the river, in a direction opposite to what
> might be anticipated during the time of fall migration. During the
> entire period of observation, no nighthawks were detected migrating
> southward along the river below the Ledyard Bridge.
>
> Other birds of interest during the time of the nighthawk observations
> included 4 Double-crested Cormorants by the south side of the Ledyard
> Bridge and an adult Bald Eagle flying southward down the river.
>
> For anyone who has not seen today's (Sept. 3) issue of the Valley News
> newspaper, an article starting on page C1 reports, with a color photo,
> on the adult White-tailed Tropicbird, which was picked up this past
> week on a lawn in Charlestown, NH, and then transported to the St.
> Francis Wild Bird Hospital in Lyme, NH, where it unfortunately
> succumbed.
>
> This bird apparently provides the first state record for White-tailed
> Tropicbird in New Hampshire. For Vermont, according to Murin and
> Pfeiffer (2002, Birdwatching in Vermont, University Press of New
> England, page 170), there are records from North Danville and
> Woodstock, both on September 22, 1938, and associated with a major
> hurricane which reached northern New England.
>
> George Clark
> Norwich, VT
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