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Mar 1, 2023, 10:28:31 PM3/1/23
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I don't know if this is allowed here but I am sad to share with the group that Chris Sheridan passed away on February 18th.  She was a dear friend to me and an avid and knowledgeable birder who was active and involved with this group for many years. She was a passionate and talented bird photographer and armature ornithologist. I will miss her dearly. 
Deanne Fortnam
Nashua

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birdrecords <birdr...@nhaudubon.org>: Mar 01 06:44PM

Mississippi Kites have been recorded nesting in southeastern New Hampshire since 2008 and NH Bird Records has had several articles updating the status of these birds in summer issues from 2017 through 2020. But nothing can compare with that first confirmed sighting of a breeding pair! Get a feel for the excitement of that first year (and learn why, in retrospect, they may have been here since 2004) in the Summer 2008 Issue of New Hampshire Bird Records: https://nhbirdrecords.org/nhbr-pdfs/V27%20N2%20Summer%202008.pdf (“Mississippi Kites in New Hampshire” begins on page 34).
 
Other articles in this issue include: Fledgling Vocalizations of New England Landbirds; Photo Gallery-A Visit to New Hampshire’s Tern Colony; photos and field notes from the 2008 summer season and an interesting Photo Quiz! Enjoy them all!
 
New Hampshire Bird Records is providing free access to its archives during the Covid-19 outbreak to help birders find information on birding locally and to remind us of the joy of birding.
 
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Steve Mirick <smi...@comcast.net>: Mar 01 08:11AM -0500

Congratulations to Rich Aaronian for another award!
 
https://www.exeter.edu/news/aaronian-be-honored-2023-founders-day-award
 
Rich has been a teacher of Ornithology and mentor for countless students at
Phillips Exeter Academy over many decades!
 
Steve Mirick
Bradford MA
Bob Crowley <cr...@fairpoint.net>: Mar 01 10:38AM -0500

Well deserved.
 
 
 
From: "Stephen Mirick" <smi...@comcast.net>
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Subject: [NHBirds] Another award for Rich Aaronian!
 
Congratulations to Rich Aaronian for another award!
 
[ https://www.exeter.edu/news/aaronian-be-honored-2023-founders-day-award | https://www.exeter.edu/news/aaronian-be-honored-2023-founders-day-award ]
 
Rich has been a teacher of Ornithology and mentor for countless students at Phillips Exeter Academy over many decades!
 
Steve Mirick
Bradford MA
 
 
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Alfred Maley <alfre...@gmail.com>: Mar 01 03:45AM +0100

Yesterday we went out to the reservoir at 8 AM to look for early-flying
Black Kites. The temp was acrisp 7 degree C, the sky was cloudless. By 10
AM we had seen about two thousand kites, flapping slowly by in the still
air, along with 16 Egyptian Vultures. As the sun rose, the thermals
developed and the birds began to rise and soar. I went to walk the dog
while Linda lingered and counted another thousand kites before it became
too difficult against the blue sky.
 
The dog, a border collie named Lima, believes it can catch House Sparrows.
She chases them from bush to bush (and is fast enough) but the sparrows
know just how high to fly (about six feet) to escape Lima’s leaps.
 
By 5 PM the soaring birds were dropping down, cruising by over the house.
Numbers included the first push of perhaps a hundred or so Short-toed
Snake-Eagles along with the kites. In the next week or so there will be
thousands of these attractive, osprey-sized raptors.
 
Al Maley
Hampstead NH/Los Barrios Spain
Jon Woolf <j...@jwoolfden.com>: Feb 28 06:39PM -0500

This isn't even the first time Bald Eagles have taken over the Chapman's
Landing nest platform.  They did it at least once before that I know of
- also in 2017.  As I recall, the eagles failed to fledge any young that
year, but it was a couple of years before I saw osprey there again.
 
-- Jon Woolf
Manchester, NH
 
 
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