Robert A. Culbert

Unexpected Behavior

Birds do not always do what we expect, which is part of what makes watching them so interesting.

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First Hummingbird

The first ruby-throated hummingbird of the season arrived at the feeder of Robert Green and Linda DeWitt at Green Acres on Watcha Path in Edgartown.

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April Arrivals

The eastern towhee, perhaps the Island's most iconic species, has started its return.

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Wonderful Week

When we see common goldeneye they are normally on our salt ponds or in the Sound, where they mostly spend the winter.

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Raven Review

We do not know where common ravens are nesting this year, as their only known nest site from previous years — the Verizon telephone tower in Vineyard Haven — is unoccupied.

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Headed Where?

The brant are still hanging out at Ocean Park and other nearby locales.

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Bald Birds

One never knows where ideas for the next week's Bird News column will come from.

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Too-Too-Too

Have you heard what sounds like somebody sharpening a saw by hand?

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Vagrants

The Townsend's solitaire now on the Vineyard is a vagrant that has a home somewhere in the western third of the country.

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Singing in Warmth

The northward migration has started with the arrival of a few red-winged blackbirds and grackles.

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