Curious to know who birds while day fishing. I'm not a nut, but today I did happen to see I a female Red Phalarope (http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/peterson/resources/identifications/reph/index.shtml#range) on the Sakonnet River.

A pretty rare bird in RI. Must have blown onshore during the noreaster winds this week.

Amazing colors...

I did get skunked by the way :blush:

-spence

birds are kool. specially when you get way offshore.
shearwaters, petrels, gannets, and the like. had a yellow parakeet lounge on my boat for a whole afternoon 60 miles out one day. he layed down and took a nap on the windshield wiper.

burd nurd :hs: :bshake:

we had an albatross or something follow us for almost a full day on the way down to USVI.

also had some other birds chilling with us once we were closer to land.

was nice to see after a week of water, flying fish and dorado

One of the houses I'm working at has a nesting pair of redtail hawks.They do have chicks which you can actually get a glimpse of on occasion especially when lunch arrives.

burd nurd :hs: :bshake:
:laughs: Would you like a side of rice with your piping plover?

birds are kool. specially when you get way offshore.
shearwaters, petrels, gannets, and the like. had a yellow parakeet lounge on my boat for a whole afternoon 60 miles out one day. he layed down and took a nap on the windshield wiper.

My daughter works at duck tours. A yellow parakeet landed on a duckboat in the charles and stayed on the Capt's shoulder through the whole tour. My daughter picked it and and she (the parakeet) now lives at my house !!!! Her name is norma named after the boat "Northend Norma" !!!!!!

I wonder if it was Norma that landed on your boat ????


SORRY for hyjacking your thread,
I've had seagulls sitting on my outboard looking at bait in the splash well while I was underway......

There's a couple of Ospreys at Little Allens Harbor nesting in the big light posts at NORAD. There's also some Plovers running all over the place down there. Don't tell the green police. A couple of weeks ago while squidding there was a Night Heron down on the docks for a few nights. A few years ago I got 5 feet from a Night Heron at Block Island in Old Harbor down on the lobster docks. It's a pretty big bird and pretty mean looking. I saw it there every night I went down there. It let you get pretty close. Two years ago I saw a Bald Eagle going over the Sakonnet Bridge but I have'nt seen one since. Anyone see one over there?

Spence

I'm a bird watcher. I was down at the Naval Station today and saw a pair of Ospreys building their nest in the mast of the USS Forrestal . Very cool.

Anyone know what kind of birds they are that land on all of the boats out at stellwagon. They are very dark on top with w bright yellow breast spattered with black spots?

those are migrating warblers.

Spence

I'm a bird watcher. I was down at the Naval Station today and saw a pair of Ospreys building their nest in the mast of the USS Forrestal . Very cool.

The government will probably end up designating the Forrestal a bird sanctuary!

I love to look at birds; especiallly down the vent rib of my 20 gauge! :kewl:

The parakeet thing seems really cool to me. 60 miles off the coast of MA - amazing. I am sure your boat was a welcome refuge.

-IWK

birders...........I smell a PETA member! :) :rocketem:

came home from fishing and the crows were dive bombing this red-tail hawk in the back yard (this thing is big!)...(photo taken by a 9yo)

Mike on that trip the guy next to me counted and ID'd 13 different warblers . . . I'll try to remember some of them: yellow, Napoleon, ovenbird, black pall, - that's all I remember :confused: he said there are about 50 species and that was the most he'd ever seen in one day - he was a definite "burd nurd" (but a nice guy).

Kevin,
Some of those little birdies were pretty bold, I had one land on my hand and sit there for a while. We occasionally have birds come and land on the boat, out of exhaustion, when we are way out in the canyons, but I've never seen them so bold when we were close to shore.