Hi All This is the first message I've successfully posted. I'm Simon Mitchell from Yorkshire, Uk. I've been birding properly for about 5 years now since my ...
Hi Several waders are now passing through at my local reservoirs (inland) with Common Sandpiper and Greater Golden Plover through in the last 2 days. Other ...
Hey all you happy birders etc, I have neglected to post in quite a while about my birding adventures, and now I feel it is time. On July 15th Michael Retter...
TBCers- Now that I've been back home for about two months from my study-abroad semester in Ecuador I finally have sorted through all my field notes and now ...
As some of you may have picked up from a previous message of mine, I have been in London for the past ten days and I feel I saw my fair share of European...
I noticed that somehow the end to the paragraph pertaining to my second visit to Barnes got deleted. Just for the record, it was supposed to include stuff...
Hi all, Just thought I'd say a thing or two about these lovely pics (i.e. photographs 6 to11!). Seriously though.... 1. Tree Sparrow - that large white patch...
Hey All, Chris Brown and I headed out to Jamaica Bay NWR in Queens, NY last Saturday with my NYC birding pal (and not a teenager) Lloyd Spitalnik where we met...
Today Mike Harvey, Drew Brissette and I went down to South Beach, in Chatham, Mass. for a few shorebirds and terns. In that respect we came out quite ...
Hey TBCers, Fellow young birders Ryan Shaw, Tim Perkins, and I decided to try for ptarmigans at Mt Rainier yesterday. This bird has eluded all of us for years,...
Hello, I just joined this list and I though I'd post and talk about the birds that have been in my area recently. A couple days ago, I went over to Kalamazoo,...
After spending 2.5 hours today (10th Aug) waiting for waders to pass through my local reservoirs and seeing only 2 snipe on getting out of the car at home 2...
The shorebirding has been pretty good this past week, but apparently lacking anything "rare". I think we have only had one Curlew Sandpiper for the fall, we...
I too had the same Reeve and Buff-breasted as Spencer, back on Sunday. Both were lifers. Not bad for a little patch of mudflats just 10 minutes from downtown...
Hey all, I'll be in Cape Cod with family from Saturday 8/17 to Wednesday 8/21. Is there anyone in the area that wants to hang out with me (and maybe my dad)...
Hey all just a reminder that the quiz birds are still up and at http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/psyfrmcali/lst?.dir=/TBC+Mystery+Birds&.src=ph& as a hint I will...
The 1st ever Purple Martin Festival will be held in Cumberland County, NJ, on Saturday. The day's schedule includes- Events at Mauricetown Fire Hall- Noon to...
All, At long last, volume one of Michael O'Brien and Bill Evan's the Flight Calls of North American Migratory Birds (or some such title) is available for a ...
All (or almost all), I wanted to make a suggestion, prompted by a recent post by I don't know who about a trip to Ecuador but by no means founded on it. I...
Hello All- I just figured I'd chalk up my support for this past post...I don't post on this list much, but I do read every message, look at all the quiz birds,...
To add: before all hell breaks loose on me, let me go back somewhat by saying that I should have held the reigns on my argument slightly or instead insisted...
Hi everybody- I don't post my sightings on TBC very often, and usually I just skim over everyone's posts when I get them. I barely have enough time to check up...
jen brumfield
elfin_skimmer@...
Aug 18, 2002 10:20 pm
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Hey all, The Reeve that Spencer Galen (and I) mentioned on this list, that has been in northen NJ for a few weeks has an interesting plumage detail I wanted to...
Hey all, Had another plumage inquiry: While we were at Jamaica Bay NWR a few weeks ago, James Restivo noticed that several of the Glossy Ibises had patches of...
Hey all, When I first observed the bird at about 100 yds. away at approx. 9:00 a.m I noted that the birds mantle/scap feathers were NOT at all sticking up. I...
Hi Scott- Sibley points out that "scapulars often stick up over round back" in his field guide, though I think that 75 degrees is more than I have ever seen...
My Uncle John and I travled to Plum Island Mass. this morning. The highlights were mostly shorebirds. On the way home we made a couple stops in New Hampshire...
I'll try to keep this brief: From studying shorebirds at Bombay Hook this summer I recall seeing the scaps of Least, Semipalm, and Pectoral Sands sticking up...
Hi all- This late July/August a Reeve hung out at Pickerel Creek WA, Ohio (NW Ohio, on Lake Erie) for about two weeks. During that time numerous birders ...
