[Maine-birds] Courting and mating harlequins - Ogunquit

Highlight of late morning to afternoon  birdwatching on Saturday 3/30, was a Harlequin Duck seen from the Marginal Way in Perkins Cove. There were only two males as far as we went, but it was a surprise for me to see courting and mating of a pair, just beyond the dirt trail which goes off to the side. That's as far as we went; there may have been more, but the numbers are decreasing, perhaps?

Other waterfowl there and at Wells Beach or harbor were unremarkable, but delightful.

Common Loon

Horned Grebe

Common Eider - dozens

Scoters - all three species. Good to see a Surf Scoter quite close.

Long-tailed Duck

Common Goldeneye- 1

Bufflehead-3

Mergansers -  all three species- it always means Spring to me when I see Hoodeds

We didn't look for the Piping Plovers in Wells.

No Purple Sandpipers. No redwings on the marsh that we could see.  We didn't stop.

No passerines, except for crows and Rock Pigeons at Billy's Chowder House on Mile Rd., Wells.

Crowds of people already, at Perkins Cove. Sunny, chilly by the ocean, but pleasant.

Fun to share scope and bird sightings with passersby.

Barbara

3/30/13

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Barbara Partridge Herrgesell
herpartb@aol.com

Sanford, ME

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From: Peter Morelli <pmorelli2@gmail.com>
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Subject: [Maine-birds] Courting commons

At the Pine Point pier, plenty of courting common eiders    Peter    Sent from my iPhone    --   --   Maine birds mailing list  maine-birds@googlegroups.com  http://groups.google.com/group/maine-birds  https://sites.google.com/site/birding207    ---   You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Maine   birds" group.  To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email   to maine-birds+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.  For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.      

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