by ABNC | Feb 19, 2022 | Bird Trip Reports, Front, News
View from Jodrey Pier, Gloucester, MA – photo by Joan Duprey, (January 2011) On February 13, the Club sponsored a trip to Cape Ann, led by Ernie LeBlanc. As many know, Cape Ann in the winter can be a cold and windy experience, and this day met expectations. In...
by ABNC | Feb 9, 2022 | Bird Trip Reports, Front, News
It was a brisk sunny day as Athol Bird and Nature Club president Dave Small and Meghadeepa Maity of the Anti-Racist Collective of Avid Birders lead twenty others on an accessible field trip to the Turners Falls and Old Deerfield area. Highlights at Unity Park, where...
by ABNC | Sep 10, 2021 | Bird Trip Reports, Field Trip Reports, News
On Friday, September 10th, the Athol Bird and Nature Club was joined by the Brookline Bird Club on a co-sponsored walk through Quabbin Reservoir’s Gate 35. Highlights were many migrant warblers like Chestnut-sided Warber, Magnolia Warbler, Black-throated Green...
by ABNC | Jan 5, 2011 | Bird Trip Reports
2nd Yr Glaucous Gull, Jodrey Pier, Gloucester, MA, – photo by Joan Duprey View from Jodrey Pier, Gloucester, MA – photo by Joan Duprey Eleven members of the Athol Bird and Nature Club enjoyed sunny and mild temperatures New Years day on the trip billed...
by Dave Small | Oct 13, 2001 | Bird Trip Reports, Field Trip Reports
Sixteen members of the Athol Bird and Nature Club spent a glorious Indian Summer Day on Massachusetts’ North Coast and the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge (PRNWR) on Plum Island. Veteran trip leader Mark Taylor guided the group through the various habitats...
by Dave Small | Mar 17, 2001 | Bird Trip Reports, Field Trip Reports
A brilliant spring sky illuminated the still deep snow as members of the Athol Bird and Nature Club embarked on a recent trip in search of signs of spring. Club president Dave Small met the group at the Millers River Environmental Center in Athol where Common Grackle,...