On 29 December 2024 Krzysztof Kurylowicz was birding at Morris Island in Chatham when he discovered the state’s first record of a Ferruginous Hawk. Krzysztof’s notes from eBird: Dark hawk with white streaking on the breast and white edges of wing and white tail. Flew toward West Side of the island. Harrased by crows. I’ll […]
On November 15th Tim Spahr found the first Worcester Co. record of Hammond’s Flycatcher. Tim’s field notes: Small kinglet-like empidonax with a peaked crown and long primary projection. The general gray-headed and greenish appearance lands me on empids from the west. The small bill and primary projection rule out anything but Hammond’s. The bird also […]
On December 8, 2014, Stan Deutsch photographed an odd shorebird in Gloucester and uploaded the photo to his Flickr site. The photograph remained unidentified for 2.5 years until Tim Spahr and Brian Harris discovered the image, which most certainly showed Common Greenshank! Stan Deutsch confirms that he indeed took the photograph in Gloucester in December […]