Plum Island is a great place for birding.
Regi
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Begin forwarded message:
> From: Audubon New York
> Date: December 22, 2020 at 10:03:43 AM EST
> To: Regi Teasley
> Subject: Plumb
Around 11 this morning, I watched a Rough-legged Hawk circling over the fields
along Mt Pleasant Road, before making its way slowly westward toward the
observatory. Hope it sticks around...it's been a number of years since this
species spent the winter on Mt Pleasant.
Also, yesterday around
Having had the good fortune to have as many as 38 pine siskins regularly at my
feeders, I’ve been able to study the different colors of them.
I’ve seen a few that are quite “whitish” or almost light gray with less stripes
& I tried hard to make them into immature hoary red polls!
However,
