April 2007 Galleries

April 30, 2007 :

April 30, 2007

Updated: Apr 30, 2007 4:13pm PST

April 24 & April 29, 2007 : April 24 -- Brown Thrasher and Double-crested Cormorants at Long Road. Also a pair of Mallards followed me like puppies. April 29 - Long Road morning. Palm, Pine, Yellow-rumped and Nashville Warblers. Carolina Wren. Afternoon - North side of West Island. Yellowlegs, AMOY

April 24 & April 29, 2007

April 24 -- Brown Thrasher and Double-crested Cormorants at Long Road. ...

Updated: Apr 29, 2007 2:45pm PST

April 22, 2007 : First nice weather....calm as glass, temps in 50s early, got to 70s. Winsegansett AMOY -- 2 pairs. Separate at first but later I could hear a big commotion when one pair flew over the ridge to the others' territory. Didn't see any eggs. Hacker Street -- Lone AMOY

April 22, 2007

First nice weather....calm as glass, temps in 50s early, got to 70s. ...

Updated: Apr 22, 2007 4:54pm PST

April 20, 2007 : Indigo Bunting still here, basking in the sunshine. Carolina Wren investing house.

April 20, 2007

Indigo Bunting still here, basking in the sunshine. Carolina Wren inv ...

Updated: Apr 20, 2007 4:24pm PST

April 16, 2007 : Very windy remnant of nor'easter. Some rain. Nothing at Long Road, startled a Great Blue Heron. Went to Weeden Road, Great Blue Heron. Went to YMCA, high tide scared me off. Mill Road...lots of cormorants in the pond and stream (never saw them there before). Great Blue Herons and Mockingbird. Went to several spots in Rochester. In a field with Canada Geese, saw a pair of Blue-winged Teal. At home around dusk, saw an Indigo Bunting under the feeders.

April 16, 2007

Very windy remnant of nor'easter. Some rain. Nothing at Long Road, s ...

Updated: Apr 20, 2007 6:21am PST

April 15, 2007 :

April 15, 2007

Updated: Apr 15, 2007 5:51pm PST

April 14, 2007 : After work went to Hacker Street. Sunny, temp around 50. Tide getting high, but still able to walk pretty far in the marsh. Two Oystercatchers....one was hopping around with one leg dangling but then straightened out...must have fallen asleep. After a while another pair of AMOY showed up and there was lots of noise and sparring and synchronized piping. Then one pair left and after a while another single AMOY showed up. More piping. I think it may have been a juvie...dark tip on bill. A gull tried to take some of their clams, but they drove it away. Another gull managed to get one flying and then chased it around. Took a large Quicktime movie of the victorious AMOY who drove off the intruders http://home.comcast.net/~bvm1290/amoy.mov

April 14, 2007

After work went to Hacker Street. Sunny, temp around 50. Tide gettin ...

Updated: Apr 14, 2007 4:09pm PST

April 11, 2007 :

April 11, 2007

Updated: Apr 11, 2007 12:22pm PST

April 9 & 10, 2007 : April 9--still cold but sunny. LOTS of Snipe at Shaw Road April 10 - cold and sunny. Town beach at West Island. Piping Plovers, Ruddy Turnstones, lots of Dunlin, one Purple Sandpiper.

April 9 & 10, 2007

April 9--still cold but sunny. LOTS of Snipe at Shaw Road April 10 ...

Updated: Apr 10, 2007 5:45pm PST

April 8, 2007 : Merganser at Long Road. Lots of Phoebes, Robins, Yellow-rumped Warblers, at least one early Palm Warbler, some Pine Warblers all darting around the edge of the water. I heard what sounded like a couple gunshots and when we got back to the car, saw a Mallard belly up in the pool near the road....looked like it had just happened. I ran into a policeman a little later and he was very disgusted. He remembered last year when 2 big full-grown men shot up a pair of Canada Geese and their fluffy goslings. He said the court gave them NOTHING!

April 8, 2007

Merganser at Long Road. Lots of Phoebes, Robins, Yellow-rumped Warble ...

Updated: Apr 08, 2007 9:31am PST

April 7, 2007 :

April 7, 2007

Updated: Apr 07, 2007 6:44pm PST

April 1 and 4, 2007 : April 1- sunny and nice. Lots of snipe at Shaw Road. April 4- cold, hail, dark. Pine Warblers at Long Road. One having a skirmish with Yellow-rumped Warbler. Saw several Phoebes. Great Blue Heron at Mill Road. Ospreys at RR Bridge. Also some on the platform at Winsegansett. Oystercatchers at Winsegansett. Lot of goldfinches on the feeders...because of the rain?

April 1 and 4, 2007

April 1- sunny and nice. Lots of snipe at Shaw Road. April 4- cold, ...

Updated: Apr 04, 2007 5:44pm PST