Fork-tailed Flycatcher Alert

A Fork-tailed Flycatcher has shown up in Massachusetts yesterday at the Massachusetts Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary in South Wel...

NH Morning

The leaves are turning into their beautiful fall colors, here in NH. The above tree is over our driveway. Acorss our lake, through morning m...

Can't Wait

Our American Goldfinches just can't wait until our sunflowers are ripe. This male is eating the seeds before they fully mature. I always...

Winter Finch Forecast

The White Pine cone crop is HUGE this year in New Hampshire, where we live. The winter finch forecast is out. Done by Ron Pittaway of the O...

Goldfinch Mania

We have tons of American Goldfinches at the feeders now, all vieing for perching room. That's because all the baby goldfinches have fled...

Juvenile Hawks in Flight

Broad-winged Hawk, juvenile It ain't easy to ID juvenile hawks. It ain't always easy to indentify adult hawks either, but that's...

Brown Thrasher, Hummers still here

We still have a Brown Thrasher here. Saw it today, along with some migrating warblers. It likes to sit in our rhododendrons, or in our penin...

Fixed it

Update, I just figured out how to get photos to load into blogger, had to check the "accept the terms of service 2006" box next to...

Osprey Migration

For birders, there are lots of Ospreys still to migrate, unlike the Broad-winged Hawks, which might clear out of New England by the end of t...

2129 Hawks, Pack Monandock

Broad-winged Hawk "kettle" of them rising on a thermal of warm air. If they are distant, they look tiny in your binoculars. Broad-...

Hawk update

Broad-winged Hawk, juvenile Here's a photo of a juvenile Broad-winged Hawk I took yesterday. Note the paler, squarish, lighter panels on...

Broadwings

Broad-winged Hawk, note the dark trailing edge of wings Broad-winged Hawk, side view, on a glide, makes tail look longer Broad-winged Hawk, ...

Pack Monadnock, 301 raptors

Cooper's Hawk, juvenile (click on it to see larger image) Same bird, Same bird. Merlin It was a good birding day watching hawks at Pack ...

Hawk Migration forecast

Broad-winged Hawk, adult. The broad black-and-white bands on the tail help ID it. A "kettle" (rising group) of Broad-winged Hawks ...

Brown Thrasher here

We had a Brown Thrasher two days ago at our bird feeders. We have been seeing this bird while birding around our property, for the last seve...

Get Ready, Set, Hawkwatch!!!!

Sharp-shinned Hawk This time of year we get itching to see some good hawk migration. We have been hawkwatching in New England for over 25 ye...

Your Hummingbird Numbers?

Ruby-throated Hummingbird We still have hummingbirds migrating through here in southern NH. They come the Bee Balm which still has a few blo...

117 Common Nighthawks

Yesterday we said to be on the lookout for nighthawks. We saw 117 Common Nighthawks total, last night over our property. For a while, about ...

Things

Common Nighthawk Things happening now. Nighthawks are still migrating, we saw 24 last night. Keep looking. Best times are between 4 to 7:30 ...