C’mon Kurk!!!! This is side-splitting humor! 🤣. But Grafton County had an amazing waterfowl fallout yesterday along Mascoma Lake and Wilder Dam. Can you beat a Coot?? Stay tuned!! We’re not out of it yet!
Elaine Faletra
Warren
> On Nov 14, 2026, at 8:59 PM, Dan Mullarkey <dmullarkey7...> wrote:
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> Ok that made me laugh multiple times. Well done and great birds!
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> Dan Mullarkey
> Gilford
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> On Sat, Nov 14, 2026 at 8:55 PM 'Kurk Dorsey' via NHBirds <nhbirds...> <mailto:<nhbirds...>> wrote:
> Birders
> I'm very excited that Strafford County is destined to finish in the top 10 once again in the November County Challenge! How many other counties can say that?
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> James Cornelius and I added a few things to the county list, just to help cement our county's on-going dominance over all those other counties (Yoknapatawpha County for instance). We took two newish birders to Adams Point this morning, where the highlight was a group of 5 Sandhill Cranes flying overhead, presumably to Sand County (another one we're beating! Take that Aldo Leopold!), followed shortly by two male Towhees. Red-throated Loon, Fox Sparrow, and Woodcock were also great finds by Keely and James. Three seals also put in an appearance, in case we get bonus points for mammals. We had a quick look at a warbler that I'm pretty sure was a Prairie, but we don't need to include probable birds to dominate Bloom County, even if it gets to count a talking penguin.
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> I made a few other stops afterwards and picked up a few nice finds for the day, including 3 Hooded Mergansers at the Durham Town landing (I checked carefully to make sure that they weren't actually Hooded Warblers), and a huge flock of Horned Larks, well over 200 with their tiny Vikings helmets, with about 20 Snow Buntings mixed in, at Moore Fields. For those who go to Moore Fields regularly, there was someone in the blind at the back of the field, who waved an orange flag at me as I came around the corner, so I yelled "who-dey" since I assumed it was a fellow Bengals fan. Perhaps they were just signaling that they had an Orange-crowned Warbler? My last species was a Barred Owl, calling on the town side of the Woodridge. Still waiting for my first dis-barred owl of the month.
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> Kurk Dorsey
> Durham
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