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Shorebirds are migrating through! 9/20/2024
September is the month for shorebird migration, and I visited Gooseberry Neck and Allen's Pond down in Westport to see what were on the...
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Sep 26, 20231 min read
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Clapper Rails and Sora- the elusive birds. 8/22/2023
The Rail family includes birds such as Clapper Rail, Virginia Rail, King Rail, Sora, and the Coots and Gallinules. This group is...
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Aug 24, 20231 min read
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Diamondback Terrapins! 8/9/2023
While conducting an International Shorebird Survey on in Marion, Massachusetts, I noticed two turtles sunning just off shore on a rock...
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Aug 16, 20231 min read
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A Mountain Plover Far from Home. 7/23/2023
While checking the Massachusetts rare bird alert, which I do occasionally, I noticed that someone had reported seeing a Mountain Plover...
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Aug 2, 20231 min read
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The Adventures of Yellow 25! 7/16/2023
A beautiful female American Oystercatcher, fondly called Yellow 25, has successfully raised chicks yet again on a pristine beach in...
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Jul 16, 20232 min read
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Blue Grosbeak Lifer! 7/03/2023
I met my South Shore Bird Club in Falmouth, MA for a little grassland birding adventure and ended up with two lifers, Grasshopper Sparrow...
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Jul 16, 20231 min read
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Shorebird Chicks are everywhere! 6/25/2023
As I wandered with my camera to the many beaches of Southern MA, I was rewarded with sightings of four different types of shorebird...
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Jul 16, 20232 min read
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A Pileated Woodpecker family in the marsh- 6/02/2023
My previous blog was on a Pileated Woodpecker nest hole and the pair that excavated it. It appeared that the woodpeckers were sitting on...
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Jun 7, 20232 min read
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Vacation and Birding at Hilton Head and Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. 5/21/2023
Jose and I took a road trip down to Florida to see Mom and Peter with a stopover at Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. Of course I had...
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May 26, 20231 min read
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It's that time of year! Beautiful Warblers and other birds abound! 5/20/2023
Out and about at Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary and Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary to look for Warblers and other spring migrants just...
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May 26, 20231 min read
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Pileated Woodpecker Pair creating a home! 5/04/2023
Dad Pileated Woodpecker was working hard to excavate the hole while his mate looked on. After a week or so, she moved right in and the...
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May 26, 20231 min read
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Little Owlet earns its wings...4/22/2023
Great-Horned Owls and Bald Eagles both nest much earlier than other birds in our area sometimes as early as February. The owlets and...
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Apr 23, 20231 min read
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Another Lifer! Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher 4/21/2023
Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary in Plymouth, MA was such an amazing place to bird this past Friday although my main purpose for being there...
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Apr 23, 20231 min read
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Mr. Bluebird! 4/21/2023
Just a quick post of a beautiful male Eastern Bluebird that was in the meadow with the Tree Sparrows at Tidmarsh Wildlife Area.
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Apr 23, 20231 min read
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A hot one today! 84 degrees... 4/13/2023
A solo journey was my destiny today as I still had symptoms of Covid and was testing positive. After three years of being extra cautious...
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Apr 18, 20232 min read
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Brown Creeper! 3/24/2023
I have three birding goals for 2023 in this area, and they are to see a Brown Creeper and learn their song, to witness a Pileated...
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Mar 26, 20231 min read
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Great-horned Owl baby is born! 3/21/2023
It was a beautiful sunny, 60 degree day, and I headed down to Rhode Island with a birding friend to see if any of the Screech Owls were...
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Mar 26, 20231 min read
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Bald Eagles are Back! 3/12/2023
The popular Bald Eagle pair are back to nesting on Watercourse Road and photographers are again being unethical and stationing themselves...
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Mar 14, 20231 min read
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Avoided Boston traffic on a Friday and headed south. 3/10/2023.
I am beginning to head more towards the South Coast lately to bird as there is little to no traffic on 495 and 195. I decided to look...
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Mar 11, 20231 min read
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Wilson's Snipe- a new bird for me! 3/8/23
I headed out to Shaw Road in Fairhaven to see if I could spot the White-fronted Geese that had been posted on the MA ebird rare bird...
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Mar 11, 20231 min read
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