Bird News

Island Hopping

Susan B. Whiting

Tim Simmons, a restoration ecologist with the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife of the Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program, asked Flip...

6:45 pm, August 7, 2013
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Pole Sitting

Susan B. Whiting

Dick Jennings has finished the 2013 osprey nest site inventory for the Vineyard. He found 71 breeding pairs, 23 failed nests and even with that, 87...

5:06 pm, July 31, 2013
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Protecting Piping Plovers

Susan B. Whiting

I joined Allan Keith on July 20 and we did the mid-Island area for the butterfly count. The Vineyard butterfly count is organized by Matt Pelikan...

3:40 pm, July 24, 2013
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Gull Week

Susan B. Whiting

This week’s heat wave doesn’t seem to have bothered one group of feathered friends, the gulls. We had quite a show of rare and unusual gulls on the...

11:38 am, July 18, 2013
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Young Birds Abound

Susan B. Whiting

Peter Huntington will be glad to hear that not only was the scissor-tailed flycatcher that he spotted at Pond View Farm last week found again, but it...