As we head into the heart of the fall migration, I’ve been seeing numerous reports in the area of assorted shorebirds moving through the region, with many spotted in the popular “Honey Pot” section of Connecticut River farmland in Hadley. With a short window for birding this evening, I took a walk along the river in Holyoke to see if…
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First fledge at downtown Holyoke’s Red-tailed Hawk nest
After a rain-out Friday, one of the young hawks fledged around mid-morning today.
Rainy Friday at downtown Holyoke’s hawk nest
A stop by the Red-tailed Hawk nest Friday morning before work revealed that the adventurous little hawk who’d wandered to the nest platform’s lower level on Thursday had found its way back to the nest. Would the rest of the day bring our first fledge?
A fresh start for The Birds Downtown
When I started The Birds Downtown as a blog in the fall of 2011, it was an experiment, and a challenge to myself. Could I really find enough birds in a post-industrial New England landscape to keep posting month after month? The sheer variation in birds I’ve found in Holyoke’s urban and industrial core has been enough affirmation to keep…