Next meeting
NONE SCHEDULED YET -- SUMMER BREAK

Look for us in the Mattapoisett Land Trust Booth at Mattapoisett Harbor Days the weekend of July 18-20.

• Saturday, July 19 -- Mike's house at 6:30 am to check out his swamp. Email him at sparrowhawk51@verizon.net or Carolyn at bvm1290@comcast.net for directions.
  
• Saturday, July 26 and Sunday, July 27 -- The club is doing a census both days of the birds at the Bay Club at Mattapoisett. Meet at Park and Ride on North Street in Mattapoisett at 7 a.m. You will not be able to go there on your own as it is a private course.

   

• Puffin trip -- June 28 trip to Maine -- Common loon, Double crested cormorant, Turkey Vulture, Common Eider, Osprey, Bald Eagle, Sharp Shinned Hawk, Red Tailed Hawk, RUFFED GROUSE, Ringed Billed Gull, Herring Gull, Great Black backed Gull, ARCTIC TERN (flyover), THIN BILLED MURRE, RAZORBILL,BLACK GUILLEMOT, ATLANTIC PUFFIN, Wilson's Storm Petrel, Rock Dove, Mourning Dove, Hairy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Eastern Phoebe, Blue Jay, American Crow, COMMON RAVEN, Black capped chickadee, BOREAL CHICKADEE, Red breasted Nuthatch, WINTER WREN (singing and sighted), Hermit Thrush, American Robin, Grey Catbird, European Starling, Northern Parula, Yellow Rumped Warbler, Black Throated Green Warbler, Ovenbird, Common Yellowthroat, Chipping Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow, Song Sparrow, White Throated Sparrow, Northern Cardinal, Red Winged Black Bird, Common Grackle, American Goldfinch, Great Blue Heron, Chimney Swifts, a Deer, Dead Porcupines, some awesome Wild flowers on Great Wass Island and loads of laughs! "I would like to thank those who followed my dream to see Puffins to almost the end of the Country and into Canada to see the most Comical yet fantastic sea birds ever! Thanks to those who volunteered their vehicles and drove over eight hundred miles on a trip I, and I'm sure many, will not forget soon. I would also like to thank "whoever" it is above, that helped make all the plans fall into place from Motel to Weather and so on! Truly a great experience for me and even better to share it with good friends, Your Fearless leader, French (Biggy) D.I. P."

• Saturday, March 22 -- Bay Club. Brown-headed Cowbird, Mourning Dove, American Robin (8), Red-bellied Woodpecker (1 seen 1 heard), Black-capped Chickadee (2), Double-crested Cormorant, Mallard (male & female), Hooded Merganser (7), Canada Goose (5), American Goldfinch (25), Eastern Bluebird (3 Male 2 Female), White- breasted Nuthatch (3, ) Hairy Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker (M & F), Bufflehead (2), American Crow (1 seen 1 heard), migrating loons (3), Red-winged Blackbird (1) and 1 unidentified hawk. Also Tufted Titmouse (4,) for a total of 19 definite and 1 indefinite.
• Saturday, February 23 - Bay Club. American Robin 3, Black Capped Chickadee 6, Golden Crowned Kinglet 2, Red Tailed Hawk 2, Hooded Merganser 4, Hairy Woodpecker 1, Downy Woodpecker 3, Mourning Dove 4, White Breasted Nuthatch 2, Tufted Titmouse 12+, Dark Eyed Junco 6, Song Sparrow 1, Ring Billed Gull 1, Herring Gull 1. Total Species 14, Total observers 6
• Sunday, January 13 -- Scusset Beach. Good weather wise and pretty good bird wise. We had five observers and had the following birds. Horned Larks, Song and Field Sparrows, Yellow-rumped Warblers, Bluebirds, Common Eider, Red Breasted Mergansers, Common Loon, Sanderling, Great Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Bufflehead, Mallards, Probable female Black Scoter(scope bird),possible Red Throated Loon (also scope bird). Also some common species. All in all a nice morning,
  
• Saturday, December 22, 2007 -- Christmas Bird Count. Download a pdf of the final New Bedford results. Some of these birds like the Barrow's Goldeneye, Yellow-breasted Chat and White-crowned Sparrow were the Nasketucket teams' birds.
  
• Sunday, November 11, 2007 -- Little Bay conservation area walk & West Island. Check Blog for sightings
• West Island State Reservation - September 22, 2007--Check blog for sightings
• Whip-poor-will Walk (a.k. Birds and Bees), June 17 - - Check blog for sightings
• Mount Auburn Cemetery May 6 -- Read about the species we saw on the blog and see a few pictures
• Owl Prowl (March , 20073)-Read all about it on the blog
• Scusset Beach walk on January 21, 2007 -- see our tally on the blog
• Nasketucket Bird Count on January 6, 2007 -- find the results on this blog

email sparrowhawk51@verizon.net for President Mike LaBossiere

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