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Published: 12/28/2020 4:59:47 PM Several local favorite hiking and swimming spots remain closed this winter, after towns shut them down as visitors – often from out of state – flooded in when quarantine hit, cluttering town roadways, leaving behind trash, and causing overcrowding. State parks remain open, including popular hiking spots including Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey and Pack Monadnock in Peterborough. However, precautions to prevent overcrowding remain in place even now, in the off-season. Monadnock State Park, which includes trail entrances to Mount Monadnock, has implemented a res...

Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Published: 12/21/2020 6:56:34 PM The top of Pack Monadnock was unusually quiet during the fall migration period from Sept. 1 to Nov. 20 due to COVID-19, but the skies above tell a different story. During this year’s annual Pack Monadnock Raptor Observatory, a collaboration between the Harris Center for Conservation Education and NH Audubon, a total of 12,032 migrating hawks were counted above the flight corridor that has collected important data over the last 16 years that helps paint a picture of the migration patterns from the region. The overall number is slig...

Despite challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pack Monadnock Raptor Observatory was able to complete its annual tracking project in 2020 and reported strong numbers for a few different species. During the tracking period, which runs Sept. 1 through Nov. 20, participants counted nearly 12,000 birds migrating south from New Hampshire, according to the final tally on the Harris Center for Conservation Education's website. The Hancock-based nonprofit organizes the count as part of a collaboration with N.H. Audubon and N.H. State Parks.  Though public participati...

This is New Hampshire Audubon’s Rare Bird Alert for Monday, Dec. 14. During the Corona virus outbreak N.H. Audubon encourages you to enjoy birding safely; please follow travel and social distance recommendations from state and federal authorities. A Pacific loon was seen from Leavitt Park Beach on Lake Winnipesaukee in Meredith on Dec. 13. Birders were unable to relocate it on the 14th, however a double-crested cormorant was reported from Center Harbor on the 14th. Thirteen horned grebes were seen near Black Cat Island on Lake Winnipesaukee on Dec. 13. A red-throated loon was seen on Lak...