VI · The journal

Dated, and a little rough

The rest of the site is reference. This is the notebook proper — single mornings, seasonal turns, the entry written the same evening while the details still hold.

  1. · Franklin Falls Dam, Franklin

    Nighthawks over Franklin

    The late-August evening flight came right on schedule — a couple hundred Common Nighthawks working south down the Pemigewasset in forty minutes.

    migration · merrimack-valley · evening

  2. · Home, Warner

    The goldfinches are just getting started

    While every other songbird in the yard is done and moulting, the goldfinches are carrying nest material. A note on why they wait.

    breeding · backyard · phenology

  3. · Mount Washington Auto Road, above 4,000 ft

    Bicknell's at dawn on the Auto Road

    Up before three to be in the krummholz at first light. Two singing Bicknell's Thrushes, a Swainson's for contrast, and pipits on the cone.

    alpine · white-mountains · dawn · rarity

  4. · Odiorne Point State Park, Rye

    Warbler morning at Odiorne

    A northwest wind overnight, then a drop. Fourteen warbler species before nine a.m. in the shrub thickets by the science center.

    migration · seacoast · spring · fallout