May, 2009 Galleries

May 30-31, 2009 : found this in an old book: SHARP-TAILED SPARROW. AMMODRAMUS CAUDICUTUS. I am quite certain I have seen these little birds running along the beach above high water mark, but not having my gun, could not positively identify them. Notes on the Birds of Hull, Massachusetts ... By Everett W. Ricker 1896

May 30-31, 2009

found this in an old book: SHARP-TAILED SPARROW. AMMODRAMUS CAUDICUTUS. I am quite certain I have seen these little birds running along the beach above high water mark, but not having my gun, could not positively identify them. Notes on the Birds of Hull, Massachusetts ... By Everett W. Ricker 1896

Updated: Jun 05, 2009 6:23pm PST

May 15-16, 2009 : Pictures of some of the birds Kay and I saw on our Birdathon in Acushnet and Fairhaven -- 82 species in all This is the whole list (we're almost sure to have seen a Blackpoll Warbler as well, but not sure enough to put it on the list) Red-winged Blackbird, Bobolink, Northern Cardinal, Gray Catbird, Black-capped Chickadee, Double-crested Cormorant, Brown-headed Cowbird, American Crow, Mourning Dove, Dunlin, Great Egret, Snowy Egret, House Finch, Northern Flicker, Great Crested Flycatcher, American Goldfinch, Canada Goose, Common Grackle, Great Black-backed Gull, Herring Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Northern Harrier, Red-shouldered Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Great Blue Heron, Green Heron, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Blue Jay, American Kestrel, Killdeer, Eastern Kingbird, Mallard, American Black Duck, Red-breasted Merganser, Northern Mockingbird, White-breasted Nuthatch, Baltimore Oriole, Osprey, Ovenbird, American Oystercatcher, Northern Parula, Eastern Phoebe, Eastern Wood Pee-wee, Rock Pigeon, Black-bellied Plover, Piping Plover, Semipalmated Plover, American Redstart, American Robin, Least Sandpiper, Pine Siskin, Chipping Sparrow, House Sparrow, Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow, Song Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, European Starling, Barn Swallow, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Tree Swallow, Chimney Swift, Scarlet Tanager, Common Tern, Least Tern, Brown Thrasher, Wood Thrush, Veery, Tufted Titmouse, Eastern Towhee, Ruddy Turnstone, Warbling Vireo, Black-and-white Warbler, Blue-winged Warbler, Pine Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Willet, Downy Woodpecker, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Carolina Wren, House Wren, Greater Yellowlegs, Common Yellowthroat

May 15-16, 2009

Pictures of some of the birds Kay and I saw on our Birdathon in Acushnet and Fairhaven -- 82 species in all This is the whole list (we're almost sure to have seen a Blackpoll Warbler as well, but not sure enough to put it on the list) Red-winged Blackbird, Bobolink, Northern Cardinal, Gray Catbird, Black-capped Chickadee, Double-cres ...

Updated: May 16, 2009 10:01am PST

May 8-15, 2009 :

May 8-15, 2009

Updated: May 16, 2009 9:59am PST

May 1-6, 2009 :

May 1-6, 2009

Updated: May 06, 2009 5:37pm PST