Miscellaneous
Links
Massbird -- start here for local birdsA big thank-you to them for hosting our website
Visit the properties owned by the Mattapoisett Land Trust. Their newsletter, The Heron, is online and you can sign up to have the newsletter sent by email.
Track the Ruby-throated Hummingbirds on their migration back to us!
Selections from the works of Arthur Cleveland Bent -- tons of information
Mass Audubon's Birding on the Internet page
In case you want a break from counting birds, you can help the Museum of Science by counting fireflies this summer!
Firefly Project
Download a PDF file on Backyard Bird Feeding from Cornell. (One of my pics is in it)
Southeastern Mass. Birdblog - send me an email if you want to post your sightings
Woodcreeper.com Keep tabs on bird migrations
Birdwatcher's General Store on the Cape has lots of hilarious articles. Check their new book
Breeding Bird Atlas of Massachusetts
Virtual Owl Pellet Dissection!
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Next meeting
Thursday, May 22 at 7 pm at the Friends Meeting House in Mattapoisett. Theme to be announced. Map
Upcoming walks:
- April 3 -- Woodcocks at St. Anthony's Cemetery. Meet at the cemetery at 6:45 pm
- April 19 - Monthly bird walk at Bay Club (you can't go in on your own!) - Meet at the Mattapoisett Park & Ride on North Street at 8 a.m.
- May 3, Vernal Pool & Woodland Exploration for Families Nasketucket Bay State Reservation - Meet in the parking lot off Brandt Island Road
9:00 AM (Land Trust program, but birding part is led by Pres. Mike)
- May 10 - Bay Club -- North American Bird Watching Open. Times and info later.
- May (TBA) - Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge
What's this bird?
Atlas Tack, Fairhaven
April 21
Answer here
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Field Trip Results:
- Saturday, March 22 -- Bay Club. Brown-headed Cowbird, Mourning Dove, American Robin (8), Red-bellied Woodpecker (1 seen 1 heard), Black-capped Chickadee (2), Double-crested Cormorant, Mallard (male
& female), Hooded Merganser (7), Canada Goose (5), American Goldfinch (25), Eastern Bluebird (3 Male 2 Female), White- breasted Nuthatch (3, ) Hairy Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker (M & F), Bufflehead (2), American Crow (1 seen 1 heard), migrating loons (3), Red-winged Blackbird (1) and 1 unidentified hawk. Also Tufted Titmouse (4,) for a total of 19 definite and 1 indefinite.
- Saturday, February 23 - Bay Club. American Robin 3, Black Capped Chickadee 6, Golden Crowned Kinglet 2, Red Tailed Hawk 2, Hooded Merganser 4, Hairy Woodpecker 1, Downy Woodpecker 3, Mourning Dove 4, White Breasted Nuthatch 2, Tufted Titmouse 12+, Dark Eyed Junco 6, Song Sparrow 1, Ring Billed Gull 1, Herring Gull 1. Total Species 14, Total observers 6
- Sunday, January 13 -- Scusset Beach. Good weather wise and pretty good bird wise. We had five observers and had the following birds. Horned Larks, Song and Field Sparrows, Yellow-rumped Warblers, Bluebirds, Common Eider, Red Breasted Mergansers, Common Loon, Sanderling, Great Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Bufflehead, Mallards, Probable female Black Scoter(scope bird),possible Red Throated Loon (also scope bird). Also some common species. All in all a nice morning,
- Saturday, December 22, 2007 -- Christmas Bird Count. Download a pdf of the final New Bedford results. Some of these birds like the Barrow's Goldeneye, Yellow-breasted Chat and White-crowned Sparrow were the Nasketucket teams' birds.
- Sunday, November 11, 2007 -- Little Bay conservation area walk & West Island. Check Blog for sightings
- West Island State Reservation - September 22, 2007--Check blog for sightings
- Whip-poor-will Walk (a.k. Birds and Bees), June 17 - - Check blog for sightings
- Mount Auburn Cemetery May 6 -- Read about the species we saw on the blog and see a few pictures
- Owl Prowl (March , 20073)-Read all about it on the blog
- Scusset Beach walk on January 21, 2007 -- see our tally on the blog
- Nasketucket Bird Count on January 6, 2007 -- find the results on this blog
email bvm1290@comcast.net for information or comments
email sparrowhawk51@verizon.net for President Mike LaBossiere
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