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Clatter, rattle and snap! The wood stork telegraph system crackles with the news of good feeding grounds up north for young adolescents wandering about now after leaving their southern nests.
â Michael W. This year, NatureWatch welcomes reports of the first sightings of ruby-throated hummingbirds with the number seen, date, location and your name. Please email Naturewatch41@gmail.com. In 1900, according to "Birds of Berkshire County, Mass.," Walter Faxon and Ralph Hoffmann (our local bird club is named after this gentleman) listed this birdâs earliest arrival as May 3. In 1999, the earliest was only one day earlier, according to "Birds of Berkshire County" by Bartlett Hendricks, who listed May 2 as being the earliest, and May 15 as being the average. The earliest a ruby...
Toward the end of a day making multiple store stops, Danny and I watch a bald eagle majestically soaring overhead in Nassau, N.Y. âLetâs,â I say, âhead over to where the eagles nest on the Hudson River.â Itâs fairly late in the day, but will still be light enough on this gloomy, gray day to bird for a least a couple of hours. Instead of taking the fastest route, we meander by fields and farms and along the back roads to Route 9J, the road that parallels the river. On this chilly day, few birds are about. A couple of starlings in a barnyard. A passel of pigeons on...