Date: 9/7/26 6:18 am From: Matt S. <accipiter22...> Subject: Re: [MASSBIRD] Parker River birding, 9/6
Hi Jon,
They're mismanaging the impoundments. The more cynical among us believe
that they're doing this to lower shorebird numbers using the impoundments
so that they can more easily justify destroying them.
Matt
On Sun, Sep 6, 2026 at 11:04 PM Jon Woolf <jswoolf01...> wrote:
> I was down Massachusetts way this afternoon, and decided to stop by Plum
> Island for an hour or two, to look for shorebirds. I wound up being
> shocked at the lack of shorebirds. Of all birds, to be honest, but
> particularly shorebirds. What is going on with the management there?
> The Salt Pannes were so low they were mostly mudflats, and Bill Forward
> Pool was all ugly green algae. The only birds in binocular range of
> Hellcat dike were some cormorants and one peep; there were a lot more
> birds at the far end of the pool, but most were Canada geese, a couple
> of egrets, and what I think were three Glossy Ibis. The only place I
> found any shorebirds was the North Pool Overlook, and that was a
> single-species flock of forty or fifty Yellowlegs resting and preening.
> Did I just get a bad day, or is this normal for Plum Island these days?
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> -- Jon Woolf
> Manchester, NH
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