Below is the current Spring hawk migration at Plum Island. Well, it's a written account posted just after it happens. It would way better if you came out and caught the flight firsthand...
Here we have a couple of firsthand flight watchers April 17 '99: Jim Barber [left] had the best hawk story of the winter beginning when a bird feather hit him on the head at Border's Books in Peabody and he looked up to see it had been plucked off a prey item by a Merlin sitting overhead! He saw the bird several more times. Here, he and Ray Simmers are shown in the classic Natural Raptor Assoc. salute, "binoculars UP." Ray is known to many as a [Piping] Plover warden at Plum Island. The beach area shown in the photo has restricted access to protect endangered species. More Spring picts.
Here's the final total for Spring '99:
Key to HMANA [Hawk Migration Association of North America] codes:
BV-Black Vulture, TV-Turkey Vulture, OS-Osprey, BE-Bald Eagle, NH-Northern Harrier,
SS-Sharp-shinned Hawk, CH-Cooper's Hawk, NG-Northern Goshawk, RS-Red-shouldered Hawk,
BW-Broad-winged Hawk, SW-Swainson's Hawk, RT-Red-tailed Hawk, RL-Rough-legged Hawk,
AK-American Kestrel, ML-Merlin, PG-Peregrine Falcon.
This count is conducted by the Natural Raptor Association [nra]: a dis-organization of hawk watchers.
Subject: Plum Island Hawk Migration: 5/10-11/99 & Season
Date: 5.11.99 6:05 PM
To: massbird listserv, massbird@world.std.com
The Plum Island Hawk Watch is more specifically Parker River National Wildlife
Refuge near Newburyport MA on the Atlantic Ocean at the MA/NH state border. This
count is conducted from Parking Lot #1.
Weather: 60F to 70F degrees, NW winds following a cold front.
Fog. Sea breezes. A clearing cold front. The hawks continue no matter.
Well, the 2000 season mark -- a first for Plum -- was eclipsed shortly after 7am DST
on Monday [that's 6am BT (bird time), as birds don't set their biological clocks
ahead one hour in the Spring]. But this was NOT the news of the day... at 7:30am DST
[Daylight Savings Time], a Bald Eagle chugged up the road. It was a White-belly I
plumage and a bird of that same description was seen by MassAudubon ornithologist
Simon Perkins on the Plum Island barrier beach at 5:45am DST. It flew south out of sight
and apparently then came north.
Simon stopped by the hawk watch on his way out of the refuge to check out
Newburyport Harbor at high tide but he was about an hour and a half late for that
event as he was diverted by a hawk flight, really. I had had an second Bald Eagle,
an adult, plus a steady stream of Sharpies. As I spotted another couple of Bald Eagles,
Simon queried what a third bird joining the mix might be and proffered, "A trifecta?"
"Yes." EIGHT Bald Eagles for the day. That would be a fine Fall day total indeed.
Eagle ages: 3 adults, 2 juveniles, 1 White-belly one, 1 sub-adult, and 1 probable sub-adult.
Just for the fun of it, I started the Tuesday hawk watch at 5am BT [that's actually 6am
on the local alarm clock]. The hawks were up-and-at-it too! A Kestrel and a Sharpie flew
by at 6:1Oam DST AND an adult female Peregrine was working on the local duck population
at 6:30am... hovering over the Parker River and eventually landing on the bank...
photos to follow @ HawksaAloft.com, when the film comes back. Thirty-six hawks gone
by by the time the clock struck 9am DST.
As things are playing themselves out this Spring, both the Kestrel AND Merlin totals
will likely hold up as high counts along the eastern seaboard. Sandy Hook NJ has
only eightsomething Merlins and under a thousand Kestrels. The New Jersey Audubon
Spring site often weighs in with 250 to 300 plus Merlins but not this year. Nothing
has been heard from Cape Henlopen DE so far... they had a ninety Merlin DAY in '98...
"Hawks don't need the wind, hawkwatchers do."
The following were deemed to be migrating:
5/10 5/11 Season
TV 2 0 28
OS 11 1 44
BE 8 0 12
NH 18 10 211
SS 99 71 455
CH 2 0 7
BW 0 2 3
RS 0 0 5
RT 7 0 89
RL 0 0 2
AK 27 8 1283
ML 11 6 127
PG 1 3 9
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186 101 2275
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Hawk Food: 3 Hummers, 2 Black-crowned Nightherons, 5 Glossy Ibis, 10 Caspian Terns...
a Merlin grabbed some kind of small bird with three quick moves out front today.
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Subject: Plum Island Hawk Migration 5/8-9/99
Date: 5.9.99 8:49 PM
To: massbird listserv, massbird@world.std.com
The Plum Island Hawk Watch is more specifically Parker River National Wildlife
Refuge near Newburyport MA on the Atlantic Ocean at the MA/NH state border.
This count is conducted from Parking Lot #1.
A week of sea breezes with plenty of fog, rain and/or drizzle along the coast
didn't deter the powered-flight migrants from their appointed trek north. Just
under half the hawks passed under foggy, east wind conditions often with rain.
This was the weather thru Sunday morning. While an east wind held for most of
Sunday blue sky cracked through and at 5pm the wind went west: in about a minute
the temp went from 55 to 70F!
The Sunday morning Peregrine took over ten minutes to pass much to the delight
of several birders, including a life look for a one observer who declared,
"I can see the moustache mark, wow!" The Sharpies went very high early on
light winds, a kettle of 5 emerged from a cloudbank. And so did others... a
Merlin soared overhead long enough for birders who previously hadn't good
looks to get their falconful.
The season's Merlin count now stands at 110 and the season total will cross
the 2000 mark for the first time on Monday. Are we having fun yet... you betcha.
The following were deemed to be migrating over the weekend*:
7 Osprey
17 Northern Harrier
49 Sharp-shinned Hawk
17 American Kestrel
39 Merlin
3 Peregrine Falcon
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* Included in the "weekend" count are a couple of hours of late day,
fog/rain hawk watching from Thursday and Friday.
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Hawk food: Early day Common Loon migration consisted of a couple of individuals
AND 19 pairs of loon flyovers... I probably caught the tail end of this by starting
the watch at 7am; first Common Terns heard & seen from the Hawk Watch; first
migrating RT Hummingbird of the season picked up while scanning for hawks up high;
a couple of Snow Geese on the salt marsh; many spp. of shorebirds including lots
of resident Willets.
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Subject: Plum Island Hawk Migration 4/27-29/99
Date: 4.27.99 3:31 PM
To: massbird listserv, massbird@world.std.com
The Plum Island Hawk Watch is more specifically Parker River National Wildlife
Refuge near Newburyport MA on the Atlantic Ocean at the MA/NH state border.
This count is conducted from Parking Lot #1.
A bizarre little cold front approached Monday from way north of here and passed by
overnight. The good news: West winds out ahead were enjoyed on Monday helping keep
the tail end of Sunday's flight against the water barrier and quite visible
from the hawk watch. The bad news: the front has set up shop out to the east
touching off N winds that soon were NE and then ENE moving the birds inland
[or more correctly, not pressing them to the water barrier]. This condition will
persist most of the week. The Tuesday's precip. was a result of the storm
center spinning in moisture like a nor'easter would. Light northeast winds
continued on Wednesday and will persist for the rest of the week without
new fronts due to a blocking high. On Thursday, another wave the day with
NW winds, a little rain, and then ripping NE winds.
On Sunday, over 300 hawks made it here after being released from beneath
a precipitation line. During the week nearly another 300 birds moved on by
with each day having a smaller total than the day before. Thursday looks
like the very end of this flash flood with a single digit total for the morning.
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Speaking of weather... William G. Lafley (lafleywg@crocker.com) suggested a
neat-o page with visual wind forecasting at:
<http://weather.unisys.com/mos/meteogram/mos_met_BOS.html>.
For telling what's actually going on the morning you might come to Plum Island
you need to find out the current winds on the Island. And those winds can be
different from Boston as sea breezes are more common than in Boston. You can check
on the winds at nearby Portsmouth NH by going to:
<http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/obs/massachusetts.txt>.
While there are several sites with text forecasts and current conditions,
this one has been around for awhile.
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The following were deemed to be migrating over the last three days:
1 Turkey Vulture [up the dune line]
13 Northern Harrier [no adults for over a week now]
2 Osprey
23 Sharp-shinned Hawk
1 Cooper's Hawk
1 Red-tailed Hawk
61 American Kestrel
7 Merlin [everyone up close and personal]
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Speaking of numbers... The Kestrel season total has crossed the 1200 mark. Is this
a lot of Kestrels? This year it is likely the Plum Island number will be the high
Spring Kestrel total for the eastern seaboard and therefore all reporting stations
in the US.
"Numbers are not everything!" was heard here recently. Is that the counter's equivalent
of "size doesn't matter"? Probably.
Technique is most important though, wouldn't you agree? For hawkwatchers, good
technique includes constant scanning even when the flight appears slow. A lack of
this finds the hawkwatcher with a self-fulfilling prophecy, hands in the pockets,
and birds going by... undetected. For those around the experienced hawk watcher [with
good technique], it means they get a good long look at a bird that while they didn't
initially have any way of verifying the i.d. of a distant dot, they can watch it come
in and slowly turn into a bird they can recognize and there's plenty of time for
discussion. For those with their hands in their pockets and backs to the flight,
quick looks at passing hawks and tail end going away identification provide only
limited satisfaction.
Size plus technique is most desirable. Yes?
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Subject: Plum Island Hawk Migration 4/26/99
Date: 4.26.99 11:12 PM
To: massbird listserv, massbird@world.std.com
The Plum Island Hawk Watch is more specifically Parker River National Wildlife Refuge
near Newburyport MA on the Atlantic Ocean at the MA/NH state border. This count is
conducted from Parking Lot #1.
Winds basically out of the west... occasionally SW and sometimes NW in early light
morning rain followed by mostly clear skies loaded with fair weather cumulus; by
mid-afternoon the serious squall lines moved in.
A good 40 raptors moved during the morning rain showers... the rain birds: Harriers,
Kestrels and Osprey.
You know, things like "rain birds," the very basic basics of reading hawk weather,
and even what makes a site a good place to watch and count hawks were all among the
lessons delivered to me at a young age by seasoned hawkwatchers at Derby Hill, north
of Syracuse NY... my hometown. These little lessons have held up pretty well over
the last thirty years and they even seem to work here in New England. Go figure.
Completing the answer to Andre Alguero's Massbird inquiry about the weather patterns
affecting the weekend's hawk migration [4/24-25/99], it looks like the timeline for
the long trek [3-400 miles] is complete. There were virtually no birds Saturday, on
the cusp of the frontal passage, because there were none nearby. It took a full day
for those hawks caught below an occluding front stretching west to east to get here
[see the Sunday eve. post of 296 hawks]. They finished up on Monday [below]. If
you'd like to see an example of an occluding front in the making, look at the
current weather map: there's a horizontal warm front that will stop the northward
progression of bird migration.
The fun story of the day was the young Bald Eagle. Now this species was expected
yesterday, based on Sunday's volume, but no luck. Well, Monday morning at 10am DST
here comes a first Spring plumage Bald Eagle taking its time moving up the road.
I had time to i.d. it from Parking Lot #1 [okay I caught it a ways out there by
scanning], then move myself and the spotting scope over to the Refuge guardhouse
where US Fish and Wildlife Service rookie biologist, Curt, gets to spend his time,
and we still had another ten minutes to watch the eagle and discuss about every
feather on this bird you'd want to talk about. Just for the record, we did leave
a couple of quills unturned.
The following were deemed to be migrating:
2 Turkey Vulture
1 Osprey
1 Bald Eagle
9 Northern Harrier
74 Sharp-shinned Hawk
1 Cooper's Hawk
1 Red-tailed Hawk
95 American Kestrel
2 Merlin
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Subject: Plum Island MA: 4/24-25/99 & YTD
Date: 4.25.99 8:18 PM
To: HMANA Mailing List, BIRDHAWK@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
The Plum Island Hawk Watch is more specifically Parker River National Wildlife Refuge
near Newburyport MA on the Atlantic Ocean at the MA/NH state border. This
count is conducted from Parking Lot #1.
Weather: 45 to 60F degrees, Sat. & Sun. respectively; NNW winds on Sat. going NW on Sunday.
With a precipitation occlusion blocking the northward progression of hawks and keeping
birds some 300 miles south of the watch, it was a pretty boring day on Saturday but
the flight arrived on Sunday. It should continue to flow thru Tuesday, at least.
Notes:
1. Our proclamation of being a BFZ [Broadwing Free Zone] went by way for '99 on
Saturday with an adult BW... most of the Broadwing trickle of immatures will happen
in late May.
2. Sunday's 23 Merlins is a new one-day high.
3. The Peregrine on Sunday came by carrying what appeared to be a black prey item --
best odds at Plum Island would be a male Purple Martin -- she soared up occasionally
turning into the wind, reaching down to kill/eat.
The following were deemed to be migrating:
4/24 4/25 YTD
TV 1 2 22
OS 1 6 19
BE 0 0 3
NH 5 5 136
SS 1 56 129
CH 0 0 3
BW 1 0 1
RS 0 0 5
RT 6 10 80
RL 0 0 2
AK 21 193 1061
ML 4 23 58
PG 0 1 2
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40 196 1521
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Subject: Plum Island Hawk Migration 4/19/99
Date: 4.19.99 7:54 PM
To: massbird listserv, massbird@world.std.com
The Plum Island Hawk Watch is more specifically Parker River National Wildlife Refuge
near Newburyport MA on the Atlantic Ocean at the MA/NH state border. This
count is conducted from Parking Lot #1.
Short day at the beach. A sea breeze developed out the east at 11:30 am DST moving the
flight inland.
The following were deemed to be migrating:
1 Osprey
10 Northern Harrier
18 Sharp-shinned Hawk
1 Red-tailed Hawk
23 American Kestrel
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The Plum Island Hawk Watch Page:
<http://www.hawksaloft.com/plum/>
Direct to the Spring '99 Page:
<http://www.hawksaloft.com/plum/spring99.html>
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Subject: Plum Island Hawk Migration 4/18/99
Date: 4.18.99 9:30 PM
To: massbird listserv, massbird@world.std.com
The Plum Island Hawk Watch is more specifically Parker River National Wildlife Refuge
near Newburyport MA on the Atlantic Ocean at the MA/NH state border. This
count is conducted from Parking Lot #1.
Is the weather on a tape loop? Although there was NW winds all day, following a
cold frontal passage, there was another sunny day that turned unstable in the late
afternoon with developing squall lines and rain in the area. Today the winds were
NW @ 9mph most of the day with winds stiffening to 16mph with the increasing cloudiness.
Sneaky good day with steady flow of K-birds but not shockingly great counts by hour.
My kingdom for a Turkey Vulture... and then it would have been a 10 species day... a
benchmark of good day, of sorts. On the other, Glossy Ibis made their first appearance
of the year[about 10 days later than last year] and more Purple Martins in by late
afternoon.
Season's Firsts...
The first Bald Eagles of the season moved by today... on the hour! There was an
adult at around 9am DST, a first-Spring juvenile bird at 2pm DST seen by many in
Parking Lot #1, and another adult at 4pm DST. The first Peregrine Falcon -- an adult male --
cruised by at 5pm DST... April 18th was the first Peregrine date for '98 as well.
The following were deemed to be migrating:
6 Osprey
3 Bald Eagle
29 Northern Harrier
20 Sharp-shinned Hawk
1 Cooper's Hawk
2 Red-tailed Hawk
257 American Kestrel
12 Merlin
1 Peregrine Falcon
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The Plum Island Hawk Watch Page:
<http://www.hawksaloft.com/plum/>
Direct to the Spring '99 Page:
<http://www.hawksaloft.com/plum/spring99.html>
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Subject: Plum Island Hawk Migration: 4/17/99
Date: 4.17.99 9:06 PM
To: massbird listserv, massbird@world.std.com
The Plum Island Hawk Watch is more specifically Parker River National Wildlife
Refuge near Newburyport MA on the Atlantic Ocean at the MA/NH state border.
This count is conducted from Parking Lot #1.
Warm front through the area and a cold front approaches therefore: SW winds.
Actually started off unstable and WSW at 6mph but when things went SW the wind
speed upt to 14.
BIG NEWS, first: the first PURPLE MARTIN arrived at 9:55am DST; the day ended
with one pretty good RAINBOW then one spectacular double RAINBOW where the
inner/brighter bow was so bright it made you put on sunglasses to look at it!
Interesting little flight of hawks even with a couple of Kestrels hanging around
this a.m. and one not moving thru this afternoon there were movers in and around
the temporary locals. Interesting too, fifteen Kestrels in the late afternoon rain
squall lines between 4 and 6 pm DST.
The following were deemed to be migrating:
3 Turkey Vulture
1 Osprey
8 Northern Harrier
2 Sharp-shinned Hawk
4 Red-tailed Hawk
42 American Kestrel
3 Merlin
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The Plum Island Hawk Watch Page:
<http://www.hawksaloft.com/plum/>
Direct to the Spring '99 Page:
<http://www.hawksaloft.com/plum/spring99.html>
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Subject: Plum Island MA: 4/13-15/99
Date: 4.15.99 7:11 PM
To: HMANA Mailing List, BIRDHAWK@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
The Plum Island Hawk Watch is more specifically Parker River National Wildlife
Refuge near Newburyport MA on the Atlantic Ocean at the MA/NH state border.
This count is conducted from Parking Lot #1.
Not much going here [elsewhere, so it seems by reading this list] over three days
[April 13-15]; the season total is now at 725 hawks [over 500 Kestrels].
NW winds generated by a passing Nor'easter is generally unproductive. This
unproductivity gets worse when the aforementioned low pressure system slowly
backs into the area and squall lines paint the sky when the damned thing should
be long gone.
Weather: 45-50F degrees; NW winds at 8+ Gusting to 20, and finally a sea breeze
[NE 10mph] ahead of the approaching warm front at noon on Friday.
The following were deemed to be migrating:
TV 1
OS 2
NH 29 [mostly adults]
SS 3
RT 10
AK 26
ML 5 [males w/full crops]
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Received many emails thru HMANA and massbird re:the [mostly] Harrier-oriented
notes included with the last posting. So here's more Harrier news:
1. Harriers are known as harbingers of a turn to foul weather often just ahead of a
rain shield or flying in amongst the rain drops. While the 20 Harriers today preceeded
a wind shift [to a sea breeze], it is more their time to be moving on by.
2.In 1997, April 8-9 and then April 14-15, produced forty Harriers on each of these
four days at Plum. How does this occur? Well, the pulse of Harriers coincided
and was concentrated by the weather systems shovelling the birds north and east
to the coast on strong NW winds.
3.There are four Spring plumages for the Northern Harrier: 1 with a gray back, 3 with
brown backs! The gray bird, of course, is the adult male. When a Harrier is noted with
a brown back focus on the under surface next.
IF the bird is orangey on the breast then its an immature bird for sure. This bird is
almost always less dark orange than the fall birds.
IF the bird is brownish underneath, not orange, then its either an adult female or an
immature bird.
IF the Harrier appears "hooded" on the underside, that is, has an abrupt dark throat
followed by an unstreaked creamy breast and belly then its an immature [hint: being
unstreaked is what makes for abruptness].
IF the bird is streaked from the throat down onto the breast its an adult female.
This plumage doesn't look hooded because of the streaking... adult females look like
big immature Sharp-shinned Hawks.
BOTH the orange and cream hooded birds with unstreaked breasts are immatures.
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The Plum Island Hawk Watch Page:
<http://www.hawksaloft.com/plum/>
Direct to the Spring '99 Page:
<http://www.hawksaloft.com/plum/spring99.html>
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Subject: Plum Island Hawk Migration: 4/9-11/99
Date: 4.11.99 5:30 PM
To: massbird listserv, massbird@world.std.com
The Plum Island Hawk Watch is more specifically Parker River National Wildlife Refuge
near Newburyport MA on the Atlantic Ocean at the MA/NH state border. This
count is conducted from Parking Lot #1.
Light flight on light winds and spotty coverage over three days [April 9-11].
Weather: 50+ degrees;light NW to N to E winds.
Light winds give you time to think... about things to say when reporting twenty-two hawks:
1. The "resident" Harriers around Parking Lot #1 seemed to have moved on, as they
haven't been seen with regularity over the weekend. Refuge staff don't believe any
Harriers breed at PRNWR, not even the ones around the maintenance area.
2. On light NW winds young Harriers will readily sky, even along the coast. That is,
easily soar up out of sight without fear of being blown out-to-sea and then move off
to the NW avoiding a watercrossing ["out of sight"... without optics].
3. On light NE winds adult Harriers will make watercrossings -- not very far off the
water's surface but well off shore.
4. When an adult Harrier moves well off shore it runs the risk many hawk spp. take when
they get out into the domain of the large gulls... becoming a prey item! Large gull
species move in above and behind a hawk with no quick land retreat in sight. The gulls
try to drive the hawk into the water where they drown and eat them. I have seen Broadwings
and Sharpies taken in this manner; other coastal hawkwatchers have reported similar
incidents.
Today, individual Great Black-backed Gulls attempted to work the adult male Harrier closer
to the undulating ocean surface but the experienced hawk had 'been there & done that'
and avoided the trap by lofting into a soaring movement. Each gull in turn gave up.
5.I was reminded on a recent trip to Derby Hill, by OLD friend Gerry Smith, about one
of the late Fritz Scheider's many birding axioms -- "Hawks don't need the wind,
hawkwatchers do."
Gerry remembers this stuff, but not where he stored his sunscreen a couple hours ago.
The following were deemed to be migrating:
2 Turkey Vulture
7 Norther Harrier
3 Sharp-shinned Hawk
1 Red-shouldered Hawk
6 Red-tailed Hawk
3 American Kestrel
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Check out the new home page for The Plum Island Hawk Watch! It's a central location
for this year and links to previous years with some new graphics... and very soon,
something new and fairly cool.
The Plum Island Hawk Watch Page:
<http://www.hawksaloft.com/plum/>
Direct to the Spring '99 Page:
<http://www.hawksaloft.com/plum/spring99.html>
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Subject: Plum Island MA: 4.8.99
Date: 4.8.99 9:18 PM
To: HMANA Mailing List, BIRDHAWK@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
The Plum Island Hawk Watch is more specifically Parker River National Wildlife Refuge
near Newburyport MA on the Atlantic Ocean at the MA/NH state border. This count is
conducted from Parking Lot #1.
Classic echo flight [a fall phenom.]: second day = half of the big day flight.
Weather: 60 degrees; SW winds going West wind at 12, gusting to 28 mph in the
afternoon, then NW and stronger late afternoon; a little bit of rain in the
mid-morning assoc. with another cold front passing across northern New England.
The following were deemed to be migrating:
TV 4
NH 6
CH 1
SS 12
RT 5
AK 170
ML 1
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Subject: Plum Island MA: 4.7.99
Date: 4.7.99 10:07 PM
To: HMANA Mailing List, BIRDHAWK@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
The Plum Island Hawk Watch is more specifically Parker River National Wildlife Refuge
near Newburyport MA on the Atlantic Ocean at the MA/NH state border. This count is
conducted from Parking Lot #1.
Pretty fair day of hawk watching if you like Kestrels and the odd Merlin... yes
indeed we do.
Weather: 60 degrees; West wind at 22, gusting to 30 mph in the afternoon; a cold front
blew through Plum at 3am with a quick round of thunder/lightning and little rain.
The following were deemed to be migrating:
TV 5
OS 2
NH 7
SS 8
RS 1
RT 18
AK 297
ML 9
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Subject: Plum Island Hawk Migration 4/4/99
Date: 4.4.99 10:33 PM
To: massbird listserv, massbird@world.std.com
The Plum Island Hawk Watch is more specifically Parker River National Wildlife Refuge
near Newburyport MA on the Atlantic Ocean at the MA/NH state border. This count is
conducted from Parking Lot #1.
The one day of observation in February and 5 days in March will be online shortly
accounting for the first fifty hawks of the season.
Weather: 55 degrees; NNW winds at 14, gusting to 20 mph; wind ineffective for
bringing a flight as it was caused by a backdoor cold front.
The following were deemed to be migrating:
4 Northern Harriers [all immatures]
1 Cooper's Hawk [adult]
3 Red-shouldered Hawks [adults]
5 Red-tailed Hawks
16 American Kestrels
1 Merlin
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Also from Parking Lot #1: Snow Bunting, Great Blue Herons, Glaucous Gull, Iceland Gull