Rfalconcam Forum

Reports from the Parker River Refuge on Plum Island last week included two Northern shovelers, eight Northern pintails, two merlins, two peregrine falcons, two American golden-plovers, a stilt sandpiper, two Caspian terns, a yellow-bellied sapsucker, a Western kingbird, an Eastern kingbird, a blue-gray gnatcatcher, a Northern parula, a chestnut-sided warbler, and a black-and-white warbler. In Newburyport Harbor, there were 40 greater and 20 lesser yellowlegs, 250 Bonaparte’s gulls, and two Forster’s terns.

In Ipswich, a buff-breasted sandpiper was observed in the plowed fields along Northgate Road, and in Groveland, a hooded warbler and a pine siskin were found.

At Danehy Park in Cambridge, a Connecticut warbler and a lark sparrow were spotted. Reports from the Fenway area of Boston included a yellow-billed cuckoo and a Baltimore oriole.

Two American wigeons, eight blue-winged teal, a Northern shoveler, a Northern pintail, 35 green-winged teal, two pied-billed grebes, four pectoral sandpipers, two Wilson’s snipes, a lapland longspur, and four indigo buntings were observed at the Arlington Reservoir.

At Coast Guard Beach in Eastham, recent sightings included two Cory’s shearwaters, a manx shearwater, 25 Northern gannets, 30 common terns, and six parasitic jaegers.
(WHAT R THEY)? I'll google it! OK, it's a Skua.

In Wareham, two sandhill cranes were seen in the cranberry bogs along Tihonet Road.

Reports from Nantucket included 40 killdeer, an American golden-plover, 26 American oystercatchers, five marbled godwits, a clay-colored sparrow, and a yellow-headed blackbird.

Miscellaneous reports included an American bittern, a Virginia Rail, a peregrine falcon, and a Lincoln’s sparrow at Millennium Park in West Roxbury; 30 wood ducks and 25 chimney swifts at the Great Meadows Refuge in Concord; a Philadelphia vireo, a yellow-breasted chat, and a white-crowned sparrow at Nahant; a wood thrush in Marlborough; a lark sparrow at the Cumberland Farms fields in Halifax; six Nelson’s and 22 saltmarsh sparrows in Fairhaven; and a dickcissel at Wellfleet Bay Sanctuary in South Wellfleet.

It starts out kind of like diaper rash; around the 6th day the redness disappears and you get hiccups.
Forever.

Yes! A smile to start my day!

My 1st thought on this was a "parasitic twin". I was almost afraid to google that one! I really thought it may be some sort of a bird with a bird head growing out of it's shoulder! (Honest).

From Nick Saunders Saskatchewan blog, wherein whooping cranes and parsitic jaegers are mentioned in the same paragraph!

Anyway... The birds and animals are still out there doing their stuff. Whooping Crane's have just recently been spotted at Muskiki Lake. A buddy of mine just spotted a rare Parasitic Jaeger at Redberry Lake, another friend in town had a beautiful Yellow-billed Cuckoo show up in his back garden, and we still have a few migrants trickling through our yard.


http://www.saskbirder.com/2010/10/october-already.html

Gayle