Contents
Status of Common Loons on Squam Lake in 1999
Amy Wright and Kate Taylor
Winter Population Trends of Six Species of Sparrows
Thomas R. Hamilton
The Change in the Numbers of Wintering Hooded Mergansers (lophodytes Cucullatus) in New England
Steve Davis
Birding the Myles Standish State Forest in Plymouth
Glenn d’Entremont
Birds and Building a Backyard Pond
Alan E. Strauss
Young Birders: Big Day Birding: A Change of Pace
Barrett Lawson
Pocket Places: Steele Farm, Boxborough
Judy Bartos
Yard Birds
Renee LaFontaine, Micheal Boucher, Nancy Soulette, Ann Gurka, and Randall L. Shore
Field Notes
Dan Furbish, Tod McLeish, and Geoffrey Wood
About Books: Looking Back
Paul M. Roberts
Bird Sightings: January-february 2000
James Berry, Seth Kellogg, Marjorie Rines, and Robert Stymeist
About the Cover: Piping Plover
William E. Davis Jr.
At a Glance: April 2000
Wayne R. Petersen