Sunday, July 12, 2009

Birders who Blog Tweet & Chirp (BwBTC) trip to Milford


Saturday was a wonderful day, sunny, breezy, lots of great birds and hanging out with really nice folks. Getting to see friends from Plum Island trip and meeting new ones was great. We had 13 folks today: We were guided excellently by Luke from Under Clear Skies, and we were Dawn & Jeff from Dawn's Bloggy Blog, Larry from Brownstone Birding, Christopher from PicusBlog, DJ from Oak in the Seed , Bev from Behind the Bins/Murmuring Trees, Cindy from Living in NY, Longing for Maine, Laura & Mark from Interstitial Spaces, Catherine from BirdSpot, Chris and his wife from Shorebirder the Shorebirding journal, Paul who just happened to be their but offered his 50 years experience birding, and gave us a lot of insight .
Here is Dawn's Post listing all's twitter names and links to their blogs: http://dawnandjeffsblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/birders-who-blog-tweet-and-chirp-outing_30.html

Cool Beetle From Blogger Pictures
Glossy Ibis A-Peekin From Blogger Pictures
Common Tern From Blogger Pictures
Willet Stylin From Blogger Pictures
Glossy Ibis From Blogger Pictures
Piping Plover From Blogger Pictures
Egret Nest Site From Blogger Pictures
Mute Swan with Youngins From Blogger Pictures
Snowy Egret From Blogger Pictures
Yellow-Crowned Night Heron From Blogger Pictures
Cormorant From Blogger Pictures
Least Sandpiper From Blogger Pictures
Willet From Blogger Pictures
Juvenile Greater Egret (note black legs not yellow yet) From Blogger Pictures
Young Cormorant upper left, King Eider Lower left, Surf Scoter Lower Right



List Seen:
1. Common Grackle
2. American Robin
3. Tree Swallow
4. Barn Swallow
5. Rough-winged Swallow
6. Osprey in nest with fledglings
7. Purple Martin
8. Mute Swans with chicks
9. Great Egret
10. Snowy Egret
11. House Finch
12. House Sparrow
13. Mourning Dove
14. Red-winged Blackbird
15. Catbird
16. Greater Black-backed Gull
17. Herring Gull
18. Northern Cardinal
19. European Starling
20. Mockingbird
21. Song Sparrow
22. Baltimore Oriole
23. Orchard Oriole
24. Greater Crested Cormorant
25. Glossy Ibis (Life Bird)
26. American Oyster Catchers - #4 (Life Bird)
27. Piping Plover (life bird)
28. Black-Crowned Night Heron (Life Bird)
29. Yellow-Crowned Night Heron #2 (Life Bird)
30. Ring-Billed Gull
31. Laughing Gull
32. Killdeer
33. Willet
34. Least Sandpiper
35. Boat-Tailed Grackle (Life Bird)
36. Greater Blue Heron
37. Gadwall
38. Eastern Kingbird
39. Marsh Wren
40. Short-Billed Dowitcher (Life Bird)
41. Monk Parakeet (Life Bird)
42. Least Tern (Life Bird)
43. Common Tern (Life Bird)
44. Willow Flycatcher
45. Spotted Sandpiper (Life Bird)
46. Little Blue Heron (Life Bird)
47. American Black Duck
48. Mallard Duck
49. Yellow Warbler (successfully pished by Paul)
50. Surf Scoter (Life Bird)
51. King Eider (Life Bird)
52. Thrasher
53. Saltmarsh Sharp-Tailed Sparrow (Life Bird)


5 comments:

dAwN said...

So nice to see you again! you amaze me how quickly you are learning and I think a better birder that I am by far. I am not very studious..and just look at the birds hoping that some info will sink in. Boy..that paul was full of great information!

Great photos...much better than mine..and jeffs didnt come out good at all yesterday..bummer..he said his camera settings were wrong..
i clicked on most of them...the bugs are very cool!
So did i see on twitter that u went back there with the family today?
Any new birds?

forestal said...

hi dawn thanks yes see above post; sorry to hear Jeff's pics didnt work - i bet a cheap tripod will help as this helped me get better pics right away. thanks for compliments - just OCD and yes Paul was a great help and fun to listen to

Christopher said...

Sweet - great photos - I have some similar ones, but I'm a little hesitant to post them now that I've seen what you got!

Larry said...

It's funny how we are bloggers and have some photos that are similar.-I like the cormorant Dracula pose but yours came out better than mine so I left it off.I was surprised to learn that you're from CT.-I'm about to add you to my CT birders blogroll.-It was nice meeting you for the first time but I'm sure it won't be the last time.

forestal said...

Larry - was nice meeting you too and look forward to doing more birding with you

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