Bird News

Wayward Winds

Migration can be interrupted by strong northeasters like we experienced last weekend. The website Birdcas (birdcast.info) uses radar to monitor the skies for migrating birds and posts the results.

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Colorful Fall

Susan B. Whiting

Wow, I can’t remember such a colorful fall. The bright birds may have gone south, but the vegetation is filling in for the missing hues. The riot...

10:40 am, October 29, 2009
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Fall Storms

Susan B. Whiting

Fall storms can raise havoc in harbors as well as on land. The winds of these tempests can bring back birds that have tried to migrate south. This...

9:59 am, October 22, 2009
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Moving South

Susan B. Whiting

It is the changing of the guard so to speak. The double-crested cormorants are joining up in long skeins and moving south. The greater cormorants...

10:57 am, October 15, 2009
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Say's Pheobe Back For More

Susan B. Whiting

It all started with a déjà vu birding experience by Whit Manter. He was returning from a trip off-Island on Sunday, October 4. As he drove out to...

4:42 pm, October 8, 2009
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Goodbye Hummingbirds

Susan B. Whiting

Several of the women in my aerobics class queried me about their loss of hummingbirds. Yes, unfortunately it is the time that the tiniest of our...

6:11 pm, October 1, 2009
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Bird Identification Puzzles

Susan B. Whiting

Bird identification puzzles, as with all mysteries, are great fun to work on and, best of all, to solve. Tuesday Pete Gilmore, Lanny McDowell and I...