http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/ RIBIRDS Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:57:22 GMT Philip Budlong http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4755 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4755 Birding this morning with Carlos Pedro, Sandy Saunders, Chris Sidler and Scott Tsagarakis at Westerly Land Trust's Avondale Farm Preserve: 1 Northern Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:06:35 GMT eric88kp http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4754 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4754 Took out a couple new birders from the club today - who were treated to a wonderful day, both bird and weatherwise and enjoyed themselves immensely it seemed. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:31:34 GMT Strickland Wheelock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4753 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4753 We had 2 interesting Saw-whet captures recently at Lookout Rock in Uxbridge, Ma - last night[Nov 6th] we had a foreign recovery that we quickly researched Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:16:26 GMT Tom Auer http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4752 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4752 Birders, A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was seen along the parking lot road at Camp Cronin around 9am. There was a flock of 21 COMMON LOON and 1 HARLEQUIN DUCK seen Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:30:59 GMT DLSaint@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4751 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4751 * RBA * Rhode Island * Statewide * November 6, 2009 * RIRI0911.06 - Birds mentioned: GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE Canada Goose DICKCISSEL "Ipswich" Savannah Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:57:11 GMT Fred http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4750 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4750 Hello, RI. This may be an unusual request (a "long shot"), but here goes... I am hoping that someone might have seen (and maybe even photographed) a particular Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:38:39 GMT Philip Budlong http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4749 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4749 At Trustom Pond NWR (Otter Point Trail), Matunuck, this morning there was 1 Turkey Vulture, Green-winged Teal, Ruddy Ducks, American Coot and 1 Belted Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:32:27 GMT Mark Lynch http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4748 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4748 ?Zugunruhe? is a term for migratory restlessness, the nervous behavior exhibited by birds just before they take off for a long migration. ?Zugunruhe? Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:06:04 GMT DLSaint@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4747 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4747 At about noon today, in Middletown, along Green End Ave, just east of Third Beach Road, 2 juvenile GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE with about 100 CANADA GEESE. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:24:49 GMT Mark Lynch http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4746 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4746 FERMILAB in Illinois is America?s premiere research facility for studying high energy physics and contains North America?s largest proton accelerator. Why Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:38:37 GMT Tom Auer http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4745 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4745 Birders, Had nine PURPLE SANDPIPERS on the PJ safe harbor breakwall from Camp Cronin this morning. My first of the season. Nothing else out of the ordinary. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:26:33 GMT Strickland Wheelock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4744 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4744 Unlike last year when the banding of Saw-whet Owls in eastern Ma. was way off in numbers, this season is more encouraging. We are a little past the half way Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:37:38 GMT DLSaint@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4743 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4743 At Ninigret Pond, seen from the Grassy Point trail, 2 LONG-TAILED DUCKS. At the cut along Moonstone Beach Road, 3 "Ipswich" SAVANNAH SPARROWS, 1 SEMIPALMATED Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:01:16 GMT Thomas M http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4742 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4742 First, yesterday I birded briefly in town to get a lifer dicksiccel for Will Young. It was there, an adult male. I last I saw appeared to be a female, so I Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:48:34 GMT Philip Budlong http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4741 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RIBIRDS/message/4741 On an ASRI Kimball Refuge Tuesday group walk this morning at Westerly Land Trust's Avondale Farm Preserve: 1 Great Blue Heron, 1 SNOWY EGRET, American Black