Welcome to our view of hawk watching at Plum Island, more specifically the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Parking Lot #1. The panorama was created with our Agfa ePhoto 307 digital camera and Live Picture's PhotoVista 1.0 (automatically stitching together 10 images to make one view). There's a second panorama from 22 pictures covering a 270 degree vista at Parker River NWR's Parking Lot #1! Now this image will take a little more time to load but it's fun.
These reports come from archived email files and there are a couple dates missing, such is electronic life. And they are in reverse order with the most recent entries up top and the older one's at the bottom.
Here's the final total for Spring '97:
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Final Report for 1997 [the first report below!]
Half-time Report
May, April, March
5/27/97: Here's a final Spring 1997 report on the count from Plum Island MA,
aka Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, near Newburyport MA on the MA/NH border:
TV 33
OS 79 ['96 total: 54]
BE 9
NH 256 ['96 total: 103]
SS 143 ['96 total: 332]
CH 2
BW 3
RS 2
RT 107
RL 3
AK 629 ['96 total: 1164]
ML 100 ['96 total: 85]
PG 11 ['96 total: 15]
GY 1
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1378 TOTAL
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5/17: W16, 59F.
5/18: NW8, 68F.
Plum Island's Broadwing migration got well underway this weekend with
one young bird on Sunday laboring up the dune line.
5/17&18
TV 6 all TV's up the dune line at 20' above sea level [5 together on Sat.]
OS 4
BW 1i
RT 2
AK 3
ML 2
PG 4 [a pair on Sun. w/ talon grabbing for a brief freefall]
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22
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5/11/97: WNW6, incr.10, later NW14, 65F.
Plum Island is a Broadwing-free zone... so far... well we now have one.
OS 18
NH 6
SS 26
RT 5
AK 26
ML 10
PG 4 [2 pairs]
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95
Interesting hawk food: Gull-billed Tern, Northern Gannet, 4 Hummers, 2 C.Loons.
A Merlin took one of the Purple Martins for a snack.
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5/7/97: NW8, incr.14
5/8/97: NW8-10
Plum Island is a Broadwing-free zone... so far... well we now have one.
5/7 5/8
TV 4 0
OS 2 4
BE 4 1
NH 3 3
SS 13 9
BW 1 0
RT 8 6
AK 5 12
ML 2 2
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42 37
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4/24/97: Half-time Report [take me back up the page]While we wait for the jet stream to migrate north and bring us
some strong warm winds, here's a review of the count from Plum Island MA,
aka Parker River National Wildlife Refuge near Newburyport MA on the MA/NH border:
TV 14
OS 12
BE 2
NH 194 [4-40 bird days... most 12 inches off the ground]
SS 8
CH 1
BW 0 [won't get much higher?!]
RS 1
RT 47
RL 3
AK 393 ['96 total: 1164... more to come?]
ML 25 ['96 total: 85... peak in early May]
PG 0 [May 1st and after]
GY 1 [another one[?] seen on Nantucket recently...]
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701 TOTAL SO FAR
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4/14/97: 50 degrees; NW14, G20.
4/15/97: 55 degrees; NW 6.
4/14 4/15
NH 44 40
SS 0 2
RT 1 2
AK 40 8
ML 13 0
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98 52
This flight occurred during the afternoon of the 14th and
early morning of the 15th. More Harriers! Plus a really good one day [afternoon]
flight of Merlins.
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4/7: NE winds, fog in the morning, 50F; later 75F with W winds; then SW-S winds.
4/8: NW winds at 20, 45F.
4/9: NW winds at 20, 48F.
4/7 4/8 4/9
TV 0 5 1
OS 1 9 0
NH 4 40 41
SS 1 1 1
RS 0 1 0
RT 4 13 4
AK 58 125 14
ML 2 2 1
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68 196 62 Totals
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4/5/97; winds E at 3, increasing to 10 going SE; temperature 50.
TV 1
BE 2 adults
NH 15
RT 4
RL 3 all lp: 2a,1i
AK 16
ML 1
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42 TOTAL
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4/3/97; winds NW 5, increasing to 10 as it tried to go W;
temperature 50 F; ahead of a weak front.
TV 2
CH 1 imm.
AK 16
ML 1 female Prairie
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20 TOTAL
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Last bird of the day was the Merlin w/o a hint of blue or brown on the wings,
back or head -- very pale gray instead. The breast was barred in brown was wasn't
at all reddish. Perched close by in superb late light, there was just the hint of a mustache
and eye line.
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3/30/97; winds NW 15, G30; temperature 65 F.[take me back up the page]TV 5
NH 2
RT 19
AK 89
GY 1 young white morph
ML 4
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120 TOTAL
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