Why is your predetermined area "top secret"? If this area is on private
property and off limits to the public, why post this?
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Eddie Giles
East Bridgewater, MA
emgiles62@comcast.net
On 7/10/2012 4:25 PM, Mark R Hoffman wrote:
> Got back last night from a trip to the North Maine woods with a friend
> and my 11 year old son Ryan. Our target birds were Three-Toed
> Woodpecker and Spruce Grouse. I have lived here since 1985 and have
> spent a fair amount of time up north but the Grouse has totally eluded
> me ! So I wanted that one real bad. We had a (top secret)
> predetermined area to bird for both species and after a couple of
> hours we were about 1/3 mile in a spruce/swamp area and all of a
> sudden we startled a hen Spruce Grouse with 2 chicks-WOW !!!! Finally
> ! ( I would have preferred a male but I was ecstatic. Going another
> 1/8th of a mile further we startled another hen Spruce Grouse with
> atleast 2 chicks ! She perched on a log communicating with her brood
> for probably 15 minutes, my camera was in the truck ofcourse ! I was
> in Sprucey heaven ! Then we heard a woodpecker drumming a ways out
> then a little closer and then again a little closer. Then as I was
> eyeing a beautiful male Bay-Breasted Warbler in the top of a tree my
> friend said the woodpecker just flew right in !!! He landed on a snag
> about 40' from us and I got only a side view and saw the barring and
> then he moved to the back of the snag and I was like "please don't
> leave" I have to see your back, he then reappeared and came right
> around exposing his back to us in the sun and there it was-the barring
> on the back !!! I could not believe it. My first trip to try for this
> wonderfully elusive bird was a success. Ryan got him in his binocs
> also and had great looks. Then he flew off and the 3 of us just stared
> at each other in disbelief and Ryan said "we came we saw we conquered"
> He was a stunning male bird complete with yellow cap and all. We also
> got Gray Jay,Olive-Sided Flycatcher,Lincoln's Sparrow, a killer male
> Blackpoll about 4' off the ground at a distance of about 20',nesting
> Least Flycatchers,thrushes EVERYWHERE and just alot of birds ! I never
> really birded up there at this time of year but it was a treat to see
> all of the Warblers that are long gone from Newcastle.
> Mark R Hoffman
> Newcastle Maine
> 207-458-1897
>
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