[Maine-birds] Additional Highlights This Week and Goose Fields Update, 11/3-9

Hi all,

Here are a few more observations of note from me over the past seven days:

- 22 White-winged Crossbills, Old Town House Park, North Yarmouth, 11/3 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).

- 1 female Red-winged Blackbird, feeders here at the store, 11/3.

- Reid State Park, Georgetown, 11/6 (with Jeannette):

1 WHITE-EYED VIREO (working the Bayberry hedge along the road through the saltmarsh on the way to Todd's Head)

1 FORSTER'S TERN

4+ White-winged Crossbills

2+ Red Crossbills

45 Red-necked Grebes

56 Sanderlings

- 2 PINE GROSBEAKS (First of year, and incredibly early), Hedgehog Mountain Park, Freeport, 11/7.

- 1 dark immature Pomarine Jaeger, 8 Black-legged Kittiwakes, and 2 Razorbills, Dyer Point, Cape Elizabeth, 11/8.

- 7 White-winged Crossbills, Hidden Pond Preserve, Freeport, 11/9.

- 1 Evening Grosbeak, our yard in Pownal, 11/9.

 

And the goose fields update for this week:

- An uptick in Canada Geese late this week produced the high count 890 on 11/9, after a recent low of 478 on 11/7.

- The Greater White-fronted Goose has not been seen this week.

- Horned Larks continue in the fields, along with an American Pipit on Cross Road in Cumberland  on 11/9.

- A Pied-billed Grebe continues in the pond on Woodville Road in Falmouth.

 

-Derek

 

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