3/31/2013

Evening pond report:

3/30/2013

Morning pond report:

3/28/2013

This evening's pond report includes the usual suspects (hooded mergansers, ring-necked ducks and wood ducks), the Brancusi of beavers, skunk cabbage, and a fallen giant:

3/26/2013

Evening pond report:

3/24/2013

Spent five hours with birders from all over the northeast this morning.  No bird.  Walking back, caught this, which explains why I am a pond reporter and not a birder:

3/23/2013

Today's report.  The fieldfare is still around, and so are the birders.  The rare bird has moved up the street.  Several sightings this morning.  I arrived fifteen minutes after the last sighting.  So here are some ordinary birds, and some birders:

3/21/2013

Today's pond report.  On Sunday a very rare bird was spotted in my yard.  It's a fieldfare, native to northern Europe.  It's a thrush, and when it visits the U.S. (I think there are only five confirmed visits, including this one) it hangs with the robins.  The fieldfare is not in this report (I may have seen it at my suet feeder, but I am not a birder and I can't be sure).  The birders are, along with several extraordinarily common birds:

3/17/2013 - 2

Evening pond report:

3/17/2013

Morning pond report:

3/16/2013

Today's pond report:

3/15/2013 - 2

Evening pond report:

3/15/2013

Morning pond report:

3/13/2013

Morning pond report:

3/9/2013 - 2

Evening pond report:

3/9/2013

Morning pond report:

3/2/2013

Morning pond report.  The wood ducks are back.  Not much open water on the pond yet, but I flushed some out from the reeds on Page's Brook between the spillway and the Concord River.