Field Reports
Yellow Rails at Anahuac, the First Week of May
A controlled prairie burn at sundown, three rail species in a single sweep, and the cooperative banding crew that has worked this marsh for twenty years.
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A morning at Cape May, a pelagic off Monterey, an October afternoon at Hawk Mountain — the days that produced the lists.
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A November Saturday at Wisconsin Point, Superior Harbor
From the easternmost rocks at 8:14 a.m., three jaeger species in ninety minutes and the lake birders who drove from St. Paul.
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Dusk on the Platte, the Third Week of March
From the Rowe Sanctuary blind at 6:42 p.m., 78,000 sandhill cranes coming down to the river in a wind that smelled of wet snow.
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A Cold Front at Cape May, the Second Saturday in May
The Higbee Beach dike at 5:42 a.m., a north wind, and the first wave of warblers dropping into the wax myrtle.
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Bald Eagles at Conowingo, the First Saturday in November
Below the Susquehanna's last dam, eighty-three eagles in a single morning, and the photographers who have stood there for fifteen years.
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A Fallout at High Island, Mid-April
Smith Oaks at 11:14 a.m. on a wet south wind, and the rose-breasted grosbeak in a hackberry that did not move for twenty minutes.
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An October Afternoon on the North Lookout at Hawk Mountain
Twelve hundred broad-winged hawks in ninety minutes, and the volunteer counter who has called the species since 1991.
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Twelve Hours Off Monterey, in the First Week of December
The Pt. Sur sailed at 6:45 a.m. into a four-foot swell, bound for the Soquel Canyon edge and the species that work it.