Last weekend, the Brookline Bird Club held it's Annual Weekend Trip to
the Rangeley Lakes Region in Maine. This was my 15th year leading this
trip and my 25th year birding in the Rangeley region. With 13 birders
participating, in 3.5 days we explored the following locations:
Rangeley, Boy Scout Road, Dallas Plantation, Langtown Mill, Coplin
Plantation, Saddleback Mountain, Adamstown, Township D, Rangeley
Plantaion, the Kennebago River, Eustis, Carrabassett Valley and Lower
Cupsuptic Township. We recorded a total of 113 species which includes
the birds from two pre-trip extensions on June 27th, one to the
Kennebunk Plains and an additional stop at the East Point Sanctuary in
Biddeford Pool. The complete list is as follows, highlights in caps:
BIRDS
Canada Goose 8
Wood Duck 1
American Black Duck 1
Mallard 37
Ring-necked Duck 6
Common Goldeneye 11 (w/6 young)
Common Merganser 1
SPRUCE GROUSE 1 (w/1 young)
Ruffed Grouse 2 (1 w/ 6 young)
Wild Turkey 2 (w/4 poults)
Common Loon 11
Great Blue Heron 3
Turkey Viulture 4
Osprey 3 (1 at nest)
Bald Eagle 3 (plus one young in nest)
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Broad-winged Hawk 5
Red-tailed Hawk 1
American Kestrel 4
Merlin 1
Killdeer 4
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Upland Sandpiper 7 (Kennebunk Plains)
Ring-billed Gull 13
Herring Gull 1
Mourning Dove 2
Chimney Swift 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 6
Belted Kingfisher 5
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 7
Downy Woodpecker 2
Hairy Woodpecker 10
Northern Flicker 7
Pilieated Woodpecker 6
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER 3 (includes pair at nest @20' high in a Black Spruce)
Eastern Wood-pewee 1
YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER 15
Alder Flycatcher 12
Least Flycatcher 7
Eastern Phoebe 3
Eastern Kingbird 1
Blue-headed Vireo 17
PHILADELPHIA VIREO 3
Red-eyed Vireo 56
GRAY JAY 5
Blue Jay 23
American Crow 26
COMMON RAVEN 13
Tree Swallow 9
Bank Swallow 5
Barn Swallow 21
Black-capped Chickadee 48
BOREAL CHICKADEE 15
Red-breasted Nuthatch 49
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Brown Creeper 4
House Wren 2
Winter Wren 30
Golden-crowned Kinglet 28
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 12
Eastern Bluebird 4
Veery 32
BICKNELL'S THRUSH 5
Swainson's Thrush 69
Hermit Thrush 23
Wood Thrush 1
American Robin 58
Gray Catbird 3
European Starling 2
Cedar Waxwing 51
WARBLERS (21 species)
Nashville Warbler 29
Northern Parula 43
Yellow Warbler 2
Chesnut-sided Warbler 9
Magnolia Warbler 51
Black-throated Blue Warbler 6
Yellow-rumped Warbler 43
Black-throated Green Warbler 21
Blackburnian Warbler 14
Pine Warbler 3
Prairie Warbler 2 (Kennebunk Plains)
Palm Warbler 8 (2 adults feeding 3 fledglings)
BAY-BREASTED WARBLER 2
Blackpoll Warbler 13
Black-and-white Warbler 12
American Redstart 23
Ovenbird 17
Northern Waterthrush 5
MOURNING WARBLER 5
Common Yellowthroat 47
Canada Warbler 10
Eastern Towhee 1
Chipping Sparrow 5
Field Sparrow 2
Vesper Sparrow 2 (Kennebunk Plains)
Savannah Sparrow 5
Grasshopper Sparrow 3 (Kennebunk Plains)
Song Sparrow 15
LINCOLN'S SPARROW 5
Swamp Sparrow 15
White-throated Sparrow 109
Dark-eyed Junco 35
CHESNUT-COLLARED LONGSPUR 1 (East Point Sanctuary in Biddeford Pool)
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 3
Bobolink 5
Red-winged Blackbird 4
Eastern Meadowlark 2 (Kennebunk Plains)
Common Grackle 8
Purple Finch 7
RED CROSSBILL 2
PINE SISKIN 1
American Goldfinch 5
EVENING GROSBEAK 2
MAMMALS
Red Fox
Woodchuck
Eastern Chipmunk
Red Squirrel
Muskrat
Snowshoe Hare
Whitetail Deer
Moose 16 (6 during the day and 10 on one evening safari. Includes 2
cow/calf pairs and one massive bull)
REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS
Garter Snake 2 (Thamnophis sirtalis pallidula)
American Toad
Bullfrog
Green Frog
Mink Frog
BUTTERFLIES
Canadian Tiger Swallowtail
Pink-edged Sulphur
Summer Azure
"Northern" Silvery Blue
Great Spangled Fritillary
Atlantis Fritillary
Northern Crescent
Eastern Comma
Milbert's Tortoiseshell
White Admiral
Northern Pearly-eye
Little Wood Satyr
Monarch
WILDFLOWERS (in bloom)
Northern Blue Flag
Mountain Blue-eyed Grass
Lupines
Spreading Dogbane
Twinflower
Sheep Laurel
Showy Fireweed
Wild Columbine
Canada Hawkweed
Black-eyed Susan
Yarrow
Meadowsweet
FERNS
Spinulose Woodfern
Oak Fern
Narrow Beech Fern
New York Fern
Lady Fern
Hayscented Fern
Ostrich Fern
Sensitive Fern
Common Polypody
Bracken
Royal Fern
Interrupted Fern
Cinnamon Fern
Many thanks to ALL of the people that year-after-year contribute to the
ongoing success of this trip.
Eddie
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Eddie Giles, president
Brookline Bird Club, Inc
http://www.massbird.org/bbc/
egiles@brooklinebirdclub.org
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