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A single American Golden-Plover (*Pluvialis dominica*) has been on the tideflats at Tulalip Bay, on the Tulalip Reservation north of Everett, since September 13. The species passes through Washington in small numbers every fall, mostly alon…
#AmericanGoldenPlover #TulalipBay #Shorebirds #PugetSound
#AmericanGoldenPlover #TulalipBay #Shorebirds #PugetSound
Central Puget Lowland — Speak for the Trees
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September 19, 2026 at 8:39 PM
A single American Golden-Plover (*Pluvialis dominica*) has been on the tideflats at Tulalip Bay, on the Tulalip Reservation north of Everett, since September 13. The species passes through Washington in small numbers every fall, mostly alon…
#AmericanGoldenPlover #TulalipBay #Shorebirds #PugetSound
#AmericanGoldenPlover #TulalipBay #Shorebirds #PugetSound
Two Broad-tailed Grassbirds (*Schoenicola platyurus*) were seen on the grassy hill at Kanifnath Temple, south-east of Pune, on 8 September, with four separate reports that day. The bird's stronghold is the wet hill grassland of the Wes…
#BroadTailedGrassbird #WesternGhats #PuneBirds #GrasslandBirds
#BroadTailedGrassbird #WesternGhats #PuneBirds #GrasslandBirds
Deccan thorn scrub forests — Speak for the Trees
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September 19, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Two Broad-tailed Grassbirds (*Schoenicola platyurus*) were seen on the grassy hill at Kanifnath Temple, south-east of Pune, on 8 September, with four separate reports that day. The bird's stronghold is the wet hill grassland of the Wes…
#BroadTailedGrassbird #WesternGhats #PuneBirds #GrasslandBirds
#BroadTailedGrassbird #WesternGhats #PuneBirds #GrasslandBirds
A third of York County, Maine is now in severe drought, and it got there in two weeks. On the drought map for the first week of September, severe drought covered a sliver of the county too small to register. By the September 8 map it covered ab…
#YorkCounty #MaineDrought #BrookTrout #DroughtMonitor
#YorkCounty #MaineDrought #BrookTrout #DroughtMonitor
Sebago-Ossipee Hills and Plains — Speak for the Trees
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September 19, 2026 at 8:33 PM
A third of York County, Maine is now in severe drought, and it got there in two weeks. On the drought map for the first week of September, severe drought covered a sliver of the county too small to register. By the September 8 map it covered ab…
#YorkCounty #MaineDrought #BrookTrout #DroughtMonitor
#YorkCounty #MaineDrought #BrookTrout #DroughtMonitor
Thirty-two Leach's Storm-Petrels passed Machrihanish on the 17th, counted from the seawatching point at Uisaed. Few people on this coast ever see one. The bird lives its whole year on the open Atlantic, and the only thing that brings it within…
#LeachsStormPetrel #Machrihanish #Seawatching #Kintyre
#LeachsStormPetrel #Machrihanish #Seawatching #Kintyre
Celtic broadleaf forests — Speak for the Trees
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September 19, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Thirty-two Leach's Storm-Petrels passed Machrihanish on the 17th, counted from the seawatching point at Uisaed. Few people on this coast ever see one. The bird lives its whole year on the open Atlantic, and the only thing that brings it within…
#LeachsStormPetrel #Machrihanish #Seawatching #Kintyre
#LeachsStormPetrel #Machrihanish #Seawatching #Kintyre
A Malabar Sacred Langur (*Semnopithecus hypoleucos*) has turned up twice in the past month among the residential buildings of Jogeshwari West, on August 27 and again on September 2. The two spots are less than a kilometre apart…
#MalabarSacredLangur #SanjayGandhiNationalPark #Aarey #MumbaiWildlife
#MalabarSacredLangur #SanjayGandhiNationalPark #Aarey #MumbaiWildlife
Malabar Coast moist forests — Speak for the Trees
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September 19, 2026 at 8:16 PM
A Malabar Sacred Langur (*Semnopithecus hypoleucos*) has turned up twice in the past month among the residential buildings of Jogeshwari West, on August 27 and again on September 2. The two spots are less than a kilometre apart…
#MalabarSacredLangur #SanjayGandhiNationalPark #Aarey #MumbaiWildlife
#MalabarSacredLangur #SanjayGandhiNationalPark #Aarey #MumbaiWildlife
Box tree moths are on the wing across the Garrotxa this month. Sightings from late August into early September came from Olot, Riudaura, Castellfollit de la Roca, Vallfogona de Ripollès and the villages of the Vall d'en Bas. These are second-generatio…
#BoxTreeMoth #Garrotxa #Buxus #InvasiveSpecies
#BoxTreeMoth #Garrotxa #Buxus #InvasiveSpecies
Northeast Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests — Speak for the Trees
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September 19, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Box tree moths are on the wing across the Garrotxa this month. Sightings from late August into early September came from Olot, Riudaura, Castellfollit de la Roca, Vallfogona de Ripollès and the villages of the Vall d'en Bas. These are second-generatio…
#BoxTreeMoth #Garrotxa #Buxus #InvasiveSpecies
#BoxTreeMoth #Garrotxa #Buxus #InvasiveSpecies
Six days remain to comment on a cut New York City wants to make in the Ashokan Reservoir spillway. The city's Department of Environmental Protection has applied to the DEC for a dam-safety permit to notch the crest of the East Basin spillway, i…
#AshokanReservoir #EsopusCreek #NYCDEP #PublicComment
#AshokanReservoir #EsopusCreek #NYCDEP #PublicComment
Northern Glaciated Shale and Slate Valleys — Speak for the Trees
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September 19, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Six days remain to comment on a cut New York City wants to make in the Ashokan Reservoir spillway. The city's Department of Environmental Protection has applied to the DEC for a dam-safety permit to notch the crest of the East Basin spillway, i…
#AshokanReservoir #EsopusCreek #NYCDEP #PublicComment
#AshokanReservoir #EsopusCreek #NYCDEP #PublicComment
Spotted lanternflies are in their adult stage now along the river towns, from Kingston and Port Ewen up through Saugerties, across the river in Red Hook, Rhinebeck and Tivoli, and up into the Catskills at Palenville and Woodstock. The a…
#SpottedLanternfly #HudsonValley #InvasiveSpecies #KingstonNY
#SpottedLanternfly #HudsonValley #InvasiveSpecies #KingstonNY
Hudson Valley — Speak for the Trees
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September 16, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Spotted lanternflies are in their adult stage now along the river towns, from Kingston and Port Ewen up through Saugerties, across the river in Red Hook, Rhinebeck and Tivoli, and up into the Catskills at Palenville and Woodstock. The a…
#SpottedLanternfly #HudsonValley #InvasiveSpecies #KingstonNY
#SpottedLanternfly #HudsonValley #InvasiveSpecies #KingstonNY
Tamalpais lessingia (*Lessingia micradenia* var. *micradenia*) is a small daisy that grows nowhere on earth except a few serpentine outcrops around Mount Tamalpais. It was in flower at Cascade Canyon Open Space Preserve…
#TamalpaisLessingia #SerpentineEndemic #MountTamalpais #CaliforniaNativePlants
#TamalpaisLessingia #SerpentineEndemic #MountTamalpais #CaliforniaNativePlants
Marin Hills — Speak for the Trees
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September 16, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Tamalpais lessingia (*Lessingia micradenia* var. *micradenia*) is a small daisy that grows nowhere on earth except a few serpentine outcrops around Mount Tamalpais. It was in flower at Cascade Canyon Open Space Preserve…
#TamalpaisLessingia #SerpentineEndemic #MountTamalpais #CaliforniaNativePlants
#TamalpaisLessingia #SerpentineEndemic #MountTamalpais #CaliforniaNativePlants
The discharge permit for the Metropolitan Syracuse wastewater treatment plant, the single largest pipe into Onondaga Lake, is up for renewal and modification, and the state is taking public comment on the draft through October 2.
The plant sits at 650 Hi…
#OnondagaLake #SPDES #Syracuse #CleanWater
The plant sits at 650 Hi…
#OnondagaLake #SPDES #Syracuse #CleanWater
Ontario Lowlands — Speak for the Trees
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September 16, 2026 at 10:40 PM
The discharge permit for the Metropolitan Syracuse wastewater treatment plant, the single largest pipe into Onondaga Lake, is up for renewal and modification, and the state is taking public comment on the draft through October 2.
The plant sits at 650 Hi…
#OnondagaLake #SPDES #Syracuse #CleanWater
The plant sits at 650 Hi…
#OnondagaLake #SPDES #Syracuse #CleanWater
A flock of eleven Elegant Terns (*Thalasseus elegans*) was resting at the Garibaldi Marina on Tillamook Bay on September 11. This is a bird of the Gulf of California and the Southern California coast. More than nine in ten of them nest on a single…
#ElegantTern #TillamookBay #OregonBirds #Garibaldi
#ElegantTern #TillamookBay #OregonBirds #Garibaldi
Coastal Uplands — Speak for the Trees
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September 16, 2026 at 10:35 PM
A flock of eleven Elegant Terns (*Thalasseus elegans*) was resting at the Garibaldi Marina on Tillamook Bay on September 11. This is a bird of the Gulf of California and the Southern California coast. More than nine in ten of them nest on a single…
#ElegantTern #TillamookBay #OregonBirds #Garibaldi
#ElegantTern #TillamookBay #OregonBirds #Garibaldi
An Eared Grebe (*Podiceps nigricollis*) has been sitting on the water at Morse Park, on the shore of Morse Reservoir in Noblesville, since at least the second week of September. Birders have reported a single bird there thirteen times, mos…
#EaredGrebe #MorseReservoir #IndianaBirding #FallMigration
#EaredGrebe #MorseReservoir #IndianaBirding #FallMigration
Loamy High Lime Till Plains — Speak for the Trees
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September 16, 2026 at 3:12 PM
An Eared Grebe (*Podiceps nigricollis*) has been sitting on the water at Morse Park, on the shore of Morse Reservoir in Noblesville, since at least the second week of September. Birders have reported a single bird there thirteen times, mos…
#EaredGrebe #MorseReservoir #IndianaBirding #FallMigration
#EaredGrebe #MorseReservoir #IndianaBirding #FallMigration
Severe drought now covers nearly nine-tenths of El Paso County, and it got there in about six weeks. In the second week of June the U.S. Drought Monitor had none of the county in severe drought or worse. By mid-June 12 percent was.…
#ElPasoCounty #DroughtMonitor #ShortgrassPrairie #ColoradoSprings
#ElPasoCounty #DroughtMonitor #ShortgrassPrairie #ColoradoSprings
Foothill Grasslands — Speak for the Trees
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September 15, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Severe drought now covers nearly nine-tenths of El Paso County, and it got there in about six weeks. In the second week of June the U.S. Drought Monitor had none of the county in severe drought or worse. By mid-June 12 percent was.…
#ElPasoCounty #DroughtMonitor #ShortgrassPrairie #ColoradoSprings
#ElPasoCounty #DroughtMonitor #ShortgrassPrairie #ColoradoSprings
Half of Gunnison County is now in exceptional drought, the most severe category the U.S. Drought Monitor uses. In the week of September 8 the share of the county rated exceptional jumped from about 22 percent to just over 50 percent. The other…
#GunnisonCounty #Drought #TomichiCreek #ColoradoWater
#GunnisonCounty #Drought #TomichiCreek #ColoradoWater
Sagebrush Parks — Speak for the Trees
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September 15, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Half of Gunnison County is now in exceptional drought, the most severe category the U.S. Drought Monitor uses. In the week of September 8 the share of the county rated exceptional jumped from about 22 percent to just over 50 percent. The other…
#GunnisonCounty #Drought #TomichiCreek #ColoradoWater
#GunnisonCounty #Drought #TomichiCreek #ColoradoWater
The water year closes in two weeks, and the tally for the headwaters above these forests is close to set. The three snow-survey stations that measure what falls on the high country here, Burro Mountain 11 kilometers away at 9,290…
#GarfieldCounty #ColoradoDrought #FlatTops #WhiteRiverNationalForest
#GarfieldCounty #ColoradoDrought #FlatTops #WhiteRiverNationalForest
Sedimentary Subalpine Forests — Speak for the Trees
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September 15, 2026 at 11:09 PM
The water year closes in two weeks, and the tally for the headwaters above these forests is close to set. The three snow-survey stations that measure what falls on the high country here, Burro Mountain 11 kilometers away at 9,290…
#GarfieldCounty #ColoradoDrought #FlatTops #WhiteRiverNationalForest
#GarfieldCounty #ColoradoDrought #FlatTops #WhiteRiverNationalForest
A wryneck stopped at Beddington Farmlands last week, one bird, reported on 10 September among the grassland, scrub and lakes being built back on the old sewage-farm ground beside the Wandle. It drew a steady line of birders, which is the…
#Wryneck #BeddingtonFarmlands #BirdMigration #LondonBirding
#Wryneck #BeddingtonFarmlands #BirdMigration #LondonBirding
English Lowlands beech forests — Speak for the Trees
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September 15, 2026 at 10:43 PM
A wryneck stopped at Beddington Farmlands last week, one bird, reported on 10 September among the grassland, scrub and lakes being built back on the old sewage-farm ground beside the Wandle. It drew a steady line of birders, which is the…
#Wryneck #BeddingtonFarmlands #BirdMigration #LondonBirding
#Wryneck #BeddingtonFarmlands #BirdMigration #LondonBirding
Garganey are back on the Mula-Mutha at Kavdi Pat, the stretch of river about fifteen kilometers downstream of Pune where the road from Hadapsar ends in paddy fields at the water. Five were counted there on September 8. They are the first of the…
#Garganey #KavdiPat #PuneBirding #CentralAsianFlyway
#Garganey #KavdiPat #PuneBirding #CentralAsianFlyway
Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests — Speak for the Trees
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September 14, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Garganey are back on the Mula-Mutha at Kavdi Pat, the stretch of river about fifteen kilometers downstream of Pune where the road from Hadapsar ends in paddy fields at the water. Five were counted there on September 8. They are the first of the…
#Garganey #KavdiPat #PuneBirding #CentralAsianFlyway
#Garganey #KavdiPat #PuneBirding #CentralAsianFlyway
Sonoran Desert Tortoises (*Gopherus morafkai*) have been out on the ground across the Tucson basin from mid-August into the second week of September, most of them in the Avra Valley west of the city and a smaller set on the ro…
#SonoranDesertTortoise #GopherusMorafkai #SonoranDesert #TucsonWildlife
#SonoranDesertTortoise #GopherusMorafkai #SonoranDesert #TucsonWildlife
Arizona Upland/Eastern Sonoran Basins — Speak for the Trees
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September 14, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Sonoran Desert Tortoises (*Gopherus morafkai*) have been out on the ground across the Tucson basin from mid-August into the second week of September, most of them in the Avra Valley west of the city and a smaller set on the ro…
#SonoranDesertTortoise #GopherusMorafkai #SonoranDesert #TucsonWildlife
#SonoranDesertTortoise #GopherusMorafkai #SonoranDesert #TucsonWildlife
A Yellow-legged Hornet (*Vespa velutina*) was photographed near Waldshut, on the German bank of the Rhine, in the last week of August. This is the introduced Asian hornet that Swiss cantons have been asking the public to report,…
#VespaVelutina #AsiatischeHornisse #YellowLeggedHornet #KantonZuerich
#VespaVelutina #AsiatischeHornisse #YellowLeggedHornet #KantonZuerich
Western European broadleaf forests — Speak for the Trees
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September 13, 2026 at 11:56 PM
A Yellow-legged Hornet (*Vespa velutina*) was photographed near Waldshut, on the German bank of the Rhine, in the last week of August. This is the introduced Asian hornet that Swiss cantons have been asking the public to report,…
#VespaVelutina #AsiatischeHornisse #YellowLeggedHornet #KantonZuerich
#VespaVelutina #AsiatischeHornisse #YellowLeggedHornet #KantonZuerich
Early September is the part of the year the California red-legged frog (*Rana draytonii*) spends away from water. Breeding ran from November into April. By now most adults have left the ponds and moved into the surrounding hills, sit…
#CaliforniaRedLeggedFrog #RanaDraytonii #SFPeninsula #Amphibians
#CaliforniaRedLeggedFrog #RanaDraytonii #SFPeninsula #Amphibians
San Francisco Peninsula — Speak for the Trees
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September 13, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Early September is the part of the year the California red-legged frog (*Rana draytonii*) spends away from water. Breeding ran from November into April. By now most adults have left the ponds and moved into the surrounding hills, sit…
#CaliforniaRedLeggedFrog #RanaDraytonii #SFPeninsula #Amphibians
#CaliforniaRedLeggedFrog #RanaDraytonii #SFPeninsula #Amphibians
A Yellow-legged Hornet (*Vespa velutina nigrithorax*) was photographed on Henri Schoofslaan in Auderghem on September 8, a few streets from the edge of the Forêt de Soignes. This is the invasive Asian hornet Belgian beekeepers have been…
#YellowLeggedHornet #VespaVelutina #ForetDeSoignes #Brussels
#YellowLeggedHornet #VespaVelutina #ForetDeSoignes #Brussels
European Atlantic mixed forests — Speak for the Trees
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September 12, 2026 at 10:39 PM
A Yellow-legged Hornet (*Vespa velutina nigrithorax*) was photographed on Henri Schoofslaan in Auderghem on September 8, a few streets from the edge of the Forêt de Soignes. This is the invasive Asian hornet Belgian beekeepers have been…
#YellowLeggedHornet #VespaVelutina #ForetDeSoignes #Brussels
#YellowLeggedHornet #VespaVelutina #ForetDeSoignes #Brussels
A Connecticut Warbler (*Oporornis agilis*) turned up on September 11 on a restricted-access property along Posquiello Creekside Road, a single bird working the ground cover. It is one of the least-seen warblers in the East. Most birders wh…
#ConnecticutWarbler #FallMigration #HudsonValley #Warblers
#ConnecticutWarbler #FallMigration #HudsonValley #Warblers
Hudson Valley — Speak for the Trees
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September 12, 2026 at 10:33 PM
A Connecticut Warbler (*Oporornis agilis*) turned up on September 11 on a restricted-access property along Posquiello Creekside Road, a single bird working the ground cover. It is one of the least-seen warblers in the East. Most birders wh…
#ConnecticutWarbler #FallMigration #HudsonValley #Warblers
#ConnecticutWarbler #FallMigration #HudsonValley #Warblers
A Green Snaketail (*Ophiogomphus cecilia*) was recorded twice on August 27 in the Bolina valley in Katowice, the two sightings a few hundred metres apart on the stretch of stream and old mine ponds between Giszowiec and Janów-Nikiszowiec. It is…
#GreenSnaketail #Katowice #Dragonflies #UpperSilesia
#GreenSnaketail #Katowice #Dragonflies #UpperSilesia
Central European mixed forests — Speak for the Trees
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September 11, 2026 at 7:47 PM
A Green Snaketail (*Ophiogomphus cecilia*) was recorded twice on August 27 in the Bolina valley in Katowice, the two sightings a few hundred metres apart on the stretch of stream and old mine ponds between Giszowiec and Janów-Nikiszowiec. It is…
#GreenSnaketail #Katowice #Dragonflies #UpperSilesia
#GreenSnaketail #Katowice #Dragonflies #UpperSilesia
Elegant Terns are on Tillamook Bay this week. Twenty-nine were counted on the bay on September 6, and observers have kept reporting them in the days since. For a bird that nests almost entirely on one small island in the Gulf of California, th…
#ElegantTern #TillamookBay #OregonCoast #FallMigration
#ElegantTern #TillamookBay #OregonCoast #FallMigration
Coastal Lowlands — Speak for the Trees
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September 11, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Elegant Terns are on Tillamook Bay this week. Twenty-nine were counted on the bay on September 6, and observers have kept reporting them in the days since. For a bird that nests almost entirely on one small island in the Gulf of California, th…
#ElegantTern #TillamookBay #OregonCoast #FallMigration
#ElegantTern #TillamookBay #OregonCoast #FallMigration
Two Henslow's Sparrows were reported in the tallgrass prairie at Peck Farm Park in Geneva on September 7, part of a handful of early-September checklists from the Geneva Park District's 385-acre park on the western edge of the morain…
#HenslowsSparrow #PeckFarmPark #GenevaIllinois #TallgrassPrairie
#HenslowsSparrow #PeckFarmPark #GenevaIllinois #TallgrassPrairie
Valparaiso-Wheaton Morainal Complex — Speak for the Trees
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September 9, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Two Henslow's Sparrows were reported in the tallgrass prairie at Peck Farm Park in Geneva on September 7, part of a handful of early-September checklists from the Geneva Park District's 385-acre park on the western edge of the morain…
#HenslowsSparrow #PeckFarmPark #GenevaIllinois #TallgrassPrairie
#HenslowsSparrow #PeckFarmPark #GenevaIllinois #TallgrassPrairie