Maine birds And MOAC mountainbiking: August 2013

Saturday, 31 August 2013

[Maine-birds] Tuckahoe Turf Farm, Berwick, Aug 31, 2013 AND RULES

I met the manager of Tuckahoe Turf Farm to day. I mentioned to him the rules
that I have given people, and he agrees with what I have told people. He
made it clear that people are welcomed to come and bird and walk the area.
Tuckahoe Turf Farm is at 305 Hubbard Road, Berwick, Maine, also on Ridlon
Road
So here goes the rules...
1) NEVER DRIVE ON TURF!!
2) NEVER PARK ON THE TURF!!
3) AS YOU DRIVE AROUND MAKE SURE YOU STAY OUT OF THEIR WAY AS THEY RUN THEIR
BUSINESS. (If you ran a business would you want people getting in your way?)
3a) Many of the roads are single lane, so make sure you can get to the other
end without meeting a worker, and of course you would have to back up if you
did.
4) YOU MAY WALK ANYWHERE YOU WISH.
5) IF A RARE BIRD IS SEEN, THAN THAT PERSON REPORTING IT, MUST MAKE IT CLEAR
THAT CROWDS OF PEOPLE MUST PARK ON RIDLON ROAD. Because lots of cars and
obsessive-compulsive birders would jam up the whole place. Ridlon Rd. is on
the east side of the farm. Also do not park in front of any of the gates as
they own land on both sides of the road.
I usually come in about .2 of a mile and turn right on a dirt road,
and that takes you a place where you can go right or left, and there are
high weeds and places to park. If they are in that area than I go in to the
corner about .4 and park in an area on that corner.
Also there are lots of butterflies in the 20 to 30 acres of weeds patches.
The weekend is the better time to bird the place because you have the place
to yourselves, during the week the workers are scattering the birds all over
the place.
This is the first year I have birded this place and it has the highest count
for AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER and AMERICAN PIPIT, in Maine, and the 2nd state
record for N. LAPWING.
After lots of rain the roads to the north end are very muddy and deep, you
do not want to get stuck.

Tuckahoe Turf Farm, Berwick, York, US-ME
Aug 31, 2013 9:20 AM - 12:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
4.0 mile(s)
Comments: MOSTLY CLOUDY
15 species

Canada Goose 11
Wild Turkey 12
Northern Harrier 1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22247688@N04/9641648546/in/photostream/
American Golden-Plover 2 one video to get call note and 4 photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22247688@N04/9641528792/in/photostream/
Killdeer 14
Semipalmated Sandpiper 1 poor digiscoped photo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22247688@N04/9641928788/ If this is the wrong
id, than I am sure some kind soul will let me knew. He had black legs and
standing next to the LESA he was larger.
Least Sandpiper 10
Black-billed Cuckoo 1
American Kestrel 1
Blue Jay 4
American Crow 3
Common Raven 3
Song Sparrow 4
Bobolink 1
American Goldfinch 6

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happy birding
Andy Aldrich
North Berwick

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[Maine-birds] Northern Maine Birds: Am White Pelican, Ruddy Turnstone, Am Golden-Plover

As already reported here, the pelican continues. I saw it at Christina Reservoir in Fort Fairfield this evening.

There were lots of birds around today. I assume the gray, glowery skies to the south and the light southerly breeze was slowing the progress of migrants.

Best find was 3 Ruddy Turnstones that buzzed around Collins Pond in Caribou for a few minutes this AM. The birds were very vocal and called the whole time they were checking out the pond. Ultimately they decided no go and scaled up and continued to the south. Despite the brevity, I was able to get decent looks- one was still fairly bright and the other two appeared to be winter adults or juvies

This was only my second observation ever of this species in the county.

Collins Pond also had a couple Pectorals; Least, Solitary and Spotted Sandpipers and Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs. Blue-winged Teal numbers are increasing quickly and are almost as numerous as Green-wings here. Mid-molt Northern Shovelers and an American Wigeon were also in the mix.

Almost as good was a large flock (33) of American Golden-Plovers in a freshly turned sod field on the Green Ridge Road in Fort Fairfield. These birds were also very vocal when flying, giving an incessant "queedle" call while they flew low looking for a suitable spot to land.

Also noteworthy were my first three juvenile Northern Harriers of the season. The orange birds were hunting in different locales around the area. Juvie Am Kestrels are practically ubiquitous along roadsides in the open areas and I saw well over twenty today.

Good to get out birding for a couple hours today.

Bill

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[Maine-birds] Easton/PI: Lake Josephine and Mantle Lake

We took another drive around the levee today with the three grandkids who wanted to see the American white pelican. We saw her/him - in flight they are really gorgeous - plus Double-crested cormorants, a Belted kingfisher or 2, 7 Great blue herons, lots of gulls, 1 Least sandpiper and - the highlight of the day as far the the kids were concerned - 2 families of 3 otters each. The first group was in the water, so all we could see were heads; but the second was perched on/diving from a group of logs. I think we interested them as much as they did us!

Mantle Lake in Presque Isle is currently home for a lot of Mallards (who know just who to hit up for pizza crusts), a couple of Black ducks and one Ruddy duck (juvenile) who was mixed in with all the others. Our oldest grandchild noticed her/him because it was diving, not dabbling like the others. Good eye!

[Maine-birds] Little Gull, Eastport

My wife, Connie, and I watched an adult little gull hawking flying ants alongside Bonaparte's gulls over our yard this afternoon. I guided a birding group earlier this week and I couldn't find a little gull to save my life. I think that today's bird was taunting me.

Chris

[Maine-birds] Birdy morning

Found the following after the downpour this a.m.:

Blue jays

Robins

Chipping sparrows

Red-eyed vireos

Magnolia warbler

Blackburnians

Black and whites

YR warblers w. 1 juvie

Chickadees

Goldfinches

E. Phoebes

B. Creeper

N. Flicker

YB Sapsucker, 2 juvies

H. Woodpeckers

D. Woodpecker

Maggie Strickland

Harmony ME

[Maine-birds] Re: hummer behavior

Thanks to all for the input on the hummers peering in our windows. I guess I have to agree that they must be wary of their own reflections. Thank goodness they are not as aggressive in their responses as cardinals. But I am disappointed to learn they are not trying to compliment me on the superior vintage of nectar we serve!

Maggie Strickland

Harmony ME

[Maine-birds] MACHIAS SEAL ISLAND REPORT

It's now 02:45 EDT, August 31st, and I'm seeing very large migrant movement over the island.

It's a dark night with light south to southeast wind; heavy, low clouds; showers & drizzle.

Only fog is missing. If the rain doesn't get too bad, here's potential for a pretty good fallout night.

Here, it's also been a Petrel night.

There are pretty much always Storm petrels around every night but the numbers swing wildly from very few to "raining petrels".

This has been a "raining petrels" night.

Right now I can see several on the ground, a couple climbing the lighthouse, three fluttering a couple feet away, at the window beside me and I hear another at the door.

Between showers I check for bands (none found so far).

It's also a great opportunity to have both LEACHES & WILSON'S STORM PETRELS in-hand at the same time

Friday, 30 August 2013

[Maine-birds] Warbler migrants, etc.. in Richmond and Dresden

Nice assortment of warblers at Green Point and in Richmond yesterday and today, of greater interest:

Cape May, Green Pt.
Blackpoll: GP, touch early.
Tennessee: R
Bay-breasted Warbler: R
numerous Yellow-rumps, etc..
also lots of Red-eyed Vireos

Yellow-billed Cuckoo: R

Best, Peter

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[Maine-birds] Forster's Tern, juv Stilt Sandpipers, etc.. at Scarborough Marsh today

David Ladd, Allison, sorry didn't get last name, and I birded Pine Point this morning with the following of note:
Western Willets: 5 pale birds, more than usual for me.
White-rumped Sandpiper: 18 or so.
Red Knot: 1
Forster's Tern: 1 apparent adult
2 imm. Peregrine Falcons stirring the shorebird pot.

Eastern Road pans:
3 exquisite j. Stilt Sandpipers - really lovely.
Another male imm. Peregrine Falcon.
lots of teal: 120+ Green-wings, 30 Blue-wings.

Best, Peter

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[Maine-birds] Cape Porpoise 8/30/13: 68 spp. incl. Goshawk, Golden-Plover, Y.B. Flycatcher, etc.

This morning I went to Trott Island in Cape Porpoise by boat. I started on the side that faces Cape Porpoise harbor around 6:45, then worked my way around the island along the Stage Harbor side until I could see the Goat Island Light again. By that time (11:00), the tide was low enough that I could venture out onto the flats, so I looked for shorebirds. Around 12:30 I boated over to the mouth of the Batson River (south side of Goose Rocks Beach), and spent about 3 hours walking up the river into the marsh there.

Trott Island was excellent. The second I got on the island I found warblers, but they didn't really start to be active until around 8:30. For warblers I had 10 species, and good numbers of Redstarts and Yellows:

3 N. Waterthrush

3 Black-and White

1 Nashville

19 Yellowthroat

23 Redstarts

7 Magnolia

32 Yellow Warber

1 Black-throated Blue (male)

3 Yellow-rumped

1 Prairie

In addition to the warblers, other highlights at Trott Island were a flyover American Golden-Plover (9:00; photos on the checklist), a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher at the Pine Grove campsite, two Peregrine Falcons (I watched one chase a Semi Sandpiper straight into a honeysuckle bush! - the sandpiper left the bush cautiously 10 minutes later), and a White-rumped Sandpiper on the flats. To top it all off, I had a close encounter with a juvenile Northern Goshawk on the eastern part of the island. Being from MA, I rarely get to see this species. Full Trott Island list is at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S15048745

The Batson River mouth was quieter, but still rewarding: there was another Peregrine, an Eagle, and a Red-breasted Merganser. The terns have largely left; I only saw one, but my brother reported seeing four more. The full list for this location is at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S15048527

Trott Island is only accessible by boat (except maybe at slack low tide from the pier island, but then you can't bird for any amount of time), and beware TONS of poison ivy. I can walk right through it and it's not a problem, but for someone who gets it, pants are mandatory. The stinging nettle that I mentioned in my last CP post doesn't seem to be present on Trott, but keep an eye out. Most of the best birds were seen in the vicinity of the pine grove campsite.

Good birding!

Cole Winstanley

Concord, MA / Kennebunkport, ME

[Maine-birds] Hummer behavior

In the last few weeks we have had several opportunities to observe RT hummers at eye level--as they appeared to be peering in our windows. They haven't attempted to fly through the window. They just hover, facing in, then fly away. It has happened with males and females. Any explanations?

Also, there is at this moment a flock of what appear to be rusty blackbirds working their way through the trees in the wood line--golden eyes, slightly slimmer than robins (there was a robin in a group on the ground), no red markings on any that I saw, and they did not sound like red-wingeds.

Maggie Strickland

Harmony ME

[Maine-birds] Additional Highlights this Week and Shorebird High Counts, 8/24-30

Hi all,

A handful of my additional sightings of note from the past seven days (I was out of state for much of the week), included:

- 4 Blue-winged Teal, Florida Lake Park, Freeport, 8/24 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).

- 1 lingering juvenile Roseate Tern, Pine Point, Scarborough, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

- 12 White-winged Scoters, Pine Point Beach, Scarborough, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

- 1 Red-necked Grebe, Ocean Avenue, Biddeford Pool, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

- 1 female RUDDY DUCK and 1 female BUFFLEHEAD, Sanford Sewerage facility, 8/29.

- migrant Merlins in a few coastal locations.

My shorebird high counts this week:

Black-bellied Plover: 128 (most if not all adults) - Pine Point, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER (FOY): 1 adult, Hill's Beach, Biddeford, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

Semipalmated Plover: 168 - Pine Point, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

Killdeer: 6-8, Private property in Lyman, 8/29.

AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER: 2 adults - Pine Point, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

Greater Yellowlegs: 6, Pine Point, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

Lesser Yellowlegs: 24, Wharton Point, Brunswick, 8/26.

Solitary Sandpiper: singles at several locations.

"Eastern" Willet: 6 juveniles - Pine Point, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

"WESTERN" WILLET (FOY): 2 juvs, Pine Point, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

Spotted Sandpiper: 16, Sanford Sewerage facility, Sanford, 8/29.

Whimbrel: 1 - Pine Point, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

MARBLED GODWIT: 1 juv continues, Hill's Beach, Biddeford, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist; Photos).

Ruddy Turnstone: 26, Ocean Avenue, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

Sanderling: 44, Ocean Avenue, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

Semipalmated Sandpiper: 692, Ocean Avenue, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

Least Sandpiper: 65 (two adults), Sanford Sewerage facility, 8/29.

White-rumped Sandpiper: 8 adults - Pine Point, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

Short-billed Dowitcher: 15 juvs, Pine Point, 8/25 (with Kristen Lindquist).

-Derek

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[Maine-birds] Finding a Scarlet Tanager

Im from the Scarborough area and Fryeburg, Maine area and I am looking to record a sighting of a Scarlet Tanager before its too late. Any ideas ? thanks all !!!

[Maine-birds] Used Book Sale - Scarborough

We had eight boxes of bird books and five boxes of natural history books donated to our book sale. It starts tomorrow at 9:30 and runs through Monday. The sale benefits the Scarborough Marsh Audubon Center.

Used books of any kind (except text books) are welcome. Bring some down and take some home!

Thank You, Linda

Linda Woodard, Director
Scarborough Marsh Audubon Center
Cell: 207-415-8331
Work: 207-781-2330 ext 213
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[Maine-birds] Warblers, Camden

Just followed a small, vocal wave of songbirds moving through the woods next to my office. The flock included at least six warbler species: Yellow, N. Parula, Nashville, BT Green, Blackburnian, and C. Yellowthroat, as well as a Red-eyed Vireo.

Kristen

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Thursday, 29 August 2013

[Maine-birds] Lake Jo - Am. W. Pelican

The pelican was there bright and early this morning. We hit Lake Jo on our return from Cape Breton Island, and it was in its usual perch, sharing a log w/ 1 to 3 DCCormorants, mostly sleeping. Despite an hour and a half search throughout all the ponds, we found no rails, moorhens, or coots, but many waterfowl.

Best bird on Cape Breton was a White-winged Dove, that zipped by us, below eye-level, as we stood on the tip of Cape St. Lawrence. I guess you just never know.

[Maine-birds] gannets Phippsburg

Phippsburg, Maine map 6 Totman Cove

Had two Northern Gannets in here today, quite unusual for this cove though I have reported them in the past. they came from south looking as if they had trailed a fishing boat back in to the harbor, then went back out the same as they came in, taking a leisurely flight out.

Robin R Robinson

[Maine-birds] Red-necked Phalarope, Sanford Sewage Plant, 29 Aug

Following Andy Aldrich's report from Sanford Sewer ponds, an anonymous but highly reliable source informs me that a juvenile RED-NECKED PHALAROPE was there after noon today. The bird was with peeps and Lesser Yellowlegs on the pebbly shore at the little "point" in the central pond.

Louis Bevier
Fairfield

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[Maine-birds] RFI- Great Cormorant

I'm a birder from Texas who will be visiting Maine in mid-September to participate in the Maine Audubon Pelagic out of Bar Harbor. If I do not see the Great Cormorant on the pelagic, I would like to look for this lifer species elsewhere. If you know of any dependable places to look I would appreciate an email off list at mdupree8ATcomcast.net. Thanks!

Mike Dupree
Houston, Tx

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[Maine-birds] RUDDY DUCK, BUFFLEHEAD, Sanford Sewage Plant, Aug 29, 2013

Sanford Sewage Plant, York, US-ME
Aug 29, 2013 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.5 mile(s)
Comments: cloudy, east wind 15 to 30 mph
30 species

Wood Duck 13
American Black Duck 1
Mallard 53 carefully counted
Bufflehead 1 female, gray head and back, with white oval ear patch.
white patch on trailing edge of secondaries seen as it flew.
Ruddy Duck 1 female
Wild Turkey 1
Double-crested Cormorant 7
Northern Harrier 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Semipalmated Plover 4
Killdeer 1
Spotted Sandpiper 6
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 5
Least Sandpiper 93
Pectoral Sandpiper 2
Merlin 1 chasing the least sandpipers
Eastern Phoebe 1
American Crow 1
Tree Swallow 11
Bank Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 10
Black-capped Chickadee 3
Tufted Titmouse 4
Common Yellowthroat 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Savannah Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 5
Bobolink 4
American Goldfinch 1

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Happy birding
Andy Aldrich
North Berwick

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Rtes. 4 and 109., (in S. Sanford)

Hours as posted: 6-4:30 MON-FRI, WEEKENDS: 7-8:30 SAT+SUN Holidays are
usually the same hours as weekend hours.

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[Maine-birds] NOGAs in Stockton Springs

I had two adult Northern Gannets off of Cape Jellison in Stockton Springs today, the farthest up the bay that I've seen this species.

-William

[Maine-birds] Kingfisher day

Wed. 8/28
One doesn't usually think about "flocks" of Kingfishers but today (Wed.) there were between 3-10 together on all of the Porcupine Islands in Frenchman Bay. I stopped counting after the first couple of islands but there were probably 100+ along the Bar Harbor/Acadia NP shoreline and along the shore of all the islands in the bay. All of this during our 10 a.m. to noon nature cruise. I always pictured them as moving individually in migration but that didn't seem to be the situation today.

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Wednesday, 28 August 2013

[Maine-birds] MACHIAS SEAL ISLAND REPORT

There appears to be significant passerine movement this morning, likely affected by the current 20 knot, NNE wind.

It is now 02:30 EDT and I've been seeing and hearing a lot of birds over-head for about 2 hours.

Also, I've seen 5 species of warbler around my doorstep within the past hour.

[Maine-birds] Flying Ants - DIVING WASPS (Triple Gainer egg layers)

Not to beat a dead horse, but checking a book for trout fly patterns, specifically ants, I found a Diving Wasp, which could, if it chose to enter, become the hands down winner of the "Ant Look Alike Contest".

I observed them at eye level among the flying ants on our float. They were slightly larger than the ants and did, indeed, look like very tiny wasps. I suspect the Nuptial flights that we have all been observing are a mix of ants and Diving Wasps.

Diving Wasps are "aquatic"(kinda), diving below the surface to lay their eggs in the larvae of other underwater creatures, which become their hosts.

I suspect the welt raised on Joanne's arm was from a Diving Wasp rather than an ant, but I am not putting money on it either.

My last transmission on the subject!

rob speirs cumberland, me

PS Full Disclosure - I am not an Etomologist

[Maine-birds] American White Pelican

Continues today at Lake Josephine in Easton. It just completed its seventh week in the area.

A couple Green Herons and a drake Redhead were also reported at Lake Jo on Tuesday.

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[Maine-birds] Bairds and others

I visited the beach/shorefront area at Lyman Morse Boatyard this early morning. Around 1500+ peeps and a few other types (solitary, yellowlegs, etc.) were present at the high water mark. More birds were arriving until I left at 8 am. I watched a juv Bairds on the upper stony beach zone for about 10 seconds. Birds were jumpy this morning and reshuffled themselves periodically. I did not relocate the Bairds due to time constraints. The mew gull remains at Oceanside high school. With school starting soon, it's unknown how welcoming school officials will be during school hours. Staff there is aware of the gull's presence, however.

Don

[Maine-birds] Maine RBA - August 27, 2013

Name: Maine Audubon Rare Bird Alert
Reporting Period: August 21 – 27, 2013
Area: State of Maine
Compilers: Doug Hitchcox

Noteworthy Species Mentioned:
American White Pelican+
Marbled Godwit
Mew Gull+
Forster's Tern
Hooded Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Dickcissel

(+ Details requested by Maine Bird Records Committee)

York County

On the 21st, a HOODED WARBLER was banded on Appledore Island, part of the Isles of Shoals.

A MARBLED GODWIT continued throughout the week along the Basket Island Causeway at Hills Beach in Biddeford.

Greater Portland

Banders at the River Point Conservation Area in West Falmouth caught a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT on the 24th.

An impressive morning flight count for August came on the morning of the 24th at Sandy Point Beach on Cousin's Island in Yarmouth. Beyond the high passerine counts, most noteworthy was a DICKCISSEL making the crossing.

Midcoast

On the 23rd, a FORSTER'S TERN was reported from Spirit Pond in Phippsburg.

Penobscot Bay

Continuing from August 3rd, Maine's third MEW GULL was seen more regularly this week than when it was first found. Most reports were from the roof or fields of Oceanside High School off Valley Street in Thomaston. Reports were still positive as of the 26th.

Northern Maine

An AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN continued at Lake Josephine in Easton on the 22nd and 23rd. This bird has apparently been moving around between here and Christina Reservoir in Fort Fairfield and was reported as being seen "regularly all month."

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RE: [Maine-birds] Ant hatch

This time of year the ants are sending forth the winged "virgin queens" and male winged ants to mate and found new colonies. In most ant species the entire colony is female aside from these male 'breeders' who only live long enough to mate. They fertilize the queen with all the male gametes she will need for her entire life. She stores them in her body and releases them as needed (in fact she determines the sex of her young by either providing male gametes, creating a female worker, or withholding them, creating a haploid male breeder, or 'drone'). In most cases the fertilized queen also dies, either being eaten or killed by other ants. But a few make it and found new colonies.

Mike

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From: maine-birds@googlegroups.com [mailto:maine-birds@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Stevens
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 1:28 AM
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Subject: Re: [Maine-birds] Ant hatch

I too noticed flying ants in my backyard in Windsor this afternoon.
For a short period, there were hundreds of them flying around. Pretty ignorant of ant behavior in general. Not sure if they were males and females on a nuptial flight or what. It was quite a sight though.

-Jeff

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RE: [Maine-birds] Re: Hawking Ants

I spent a summer in the Arctic (Prudhoe Bay AK) and one of the coolest memories is the Long-tailed Jaegars hawking insects (chironomid midges), their long streamers fluttering in the breeze as they gracefully plucked the tiny midges out of the air.

Also on the ant thread – I just read an incredible book “Journey to the Ants” which is about ants and the famous duo Holldobler and Wilson (they won the Pulitzer Prize for their scientific tome “The Ants”; “Journey” is the layman’s book). It is amazing the little dramas that go on right under our feet. Communism, slavery, war, conquest, farming, ranching, caste systems, it is all right there in ants. Check it out.

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Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 9:35 AM
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Subject: [Maine-birds] Re: Hawking Ants

Hello All,

I have observed the phenomenon of Gulls, Nighthawks and Starlings hawking flying ants for many decades in South Coastal Maine.

It is always around this time of year, usually in the late afternoon early evening of a sunny day and seems so nicely timed to coincide with nighthawk migration and also uptick of Bonaparte's Gulls in the area.

On the same day as many Maine birder posts there is also a post from the Northern New York birding group reporting the same phenomenon with I believe Eastern Kingbirds and Cedar Waxwings also checking in on this.

Watching the larger gulls expending energy hawking ants above the mudflats I can only conclude that they must be of a very high food value to make it worth their while though I have not noticed if they only do this on a high tide when the mudflats might not be so available for foraging.

I have seen the ants in the late afternoon rising by the hundreds from my yard.

This so much reminds me of the coinciding of Broad-winged Hawk migration with the spring and fall migration of garter snakes from and to their winter hibernation sites and basking areas on the ledges of the hills along which they migrate.

The natural world is amazing in the number of interactions and connections between all its various parts.

Dan Nickerson

Freeport ME

[Maine-birds] Re: Hawking Ants

Hello All,

I have observed the phenomenon of Gulls, Nighthawks and Starlings hawking flying ants for many decades in South Coastal Maine.

I have seen the ants in the late afternoon rising by the hundreds from my yard.

The natural world is amazing in the number of interactions and connections between all its various parts.

Dan Nickerson

Freeport ME

Re: [Maine-birds] Hawking gulls

Hi folks,

Years ago on right whale whale watching trips off Grand Manan Island in the lower Bay of Fundy (about five to seven miles from the island), we would run plankton tows along the surface and subsurface, which were full of flying ants (surface tows). We also captured ants in surface tows through tidal 'slicks' or lines of floating seaweed fragments and other odds and ends that concentrated along lines of sinking currents in Head Harbor Passage (located off Eastport between Campobello and Deer Islands, New Brunswick). At the time, there were hundreds of thousands of red-neck phalaropes feeding in the passage. We captured many ants among the copepods we collected. We always wondered if the phalaropes were chowing down on ants (Formivorours).

Back to the present, my daughter noticed about 50 Bonaparte's and 100 ring-billed gulls eating flying ants around the Rim Road Bridge in Machiasport last weekend.

On Monday, I heard a pied-billed grebe in Cutler. Also in Cutler, a group of 12 whimbrels flew from Little Machias Bay to a high tide roost in Machias Bay. Otherwise, the woods and low shrub areas were quiet (one redstart, one white-throated sparrow and two savannah sparrows were heard singing (once)).

Happy birding,

Norm Famous

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Louis Bevier <lrbevier@colby.edu> wrote:

Both Ring-billed and Bonaparte's Gulls were actively hawking flying insects (ant emergence I think) along the Hancock and Washington County coasts this past weekend. I caught one Bonaparte's Gull in the act, but the wee beast it was after is not identifiable. There were also a couple of Common Nighthawks after the same bugs Saturday evening in Lubec.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lrbevier/9612379072/

In mid-August, an emergence of a yellowish ant, probably a cornfield ant (Lasius sp.), attracted swarms of European Starlings. After passing over an ant, one of the starlings bent its tail downward and arched its head backward to corral the bug. The strange posture of this hawking starling is shown here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lrbevier/9609190819/
And this shows the ant in the beak:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lrbevier/9612424858/

I put together a set of photos from this year called In the Beak. Included are a kingbird toying with a dragonfly, a cuckoo crazy about fishflies, a guillemont with its favorite fish, and a Northern Shrike that chased down a Meadow Vole when all that white stuff was on the ground.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lrbevier/sets/72157635261027929/

Good Birding!

Louis Bevier
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Re: [Maine-birds] Ant hatch

I too noticed flying ants in my backyard in Windsor this afternoon.
For a short period, there were hundreds of them flying around. Pretty
ignorant of ant behavior in general. Not sure if they were males and
females on a nuptial flight or what. It was quite a sight though.

-Jeff

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Re: [Maine-birds] Hawking gulls

Both Ring-billed and Bonaparte's Gulls were actively hawking flying insects (ant emergence I think) along the Hancock and Washington County coasts this past weekend. I caught one Bonaparte's Gull in the act, but the wee beast it was after is not identifiable. There were also a couple of Common Nighthawks after the same bugs Saturday evening in Lubec.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lrbevier/9612379072/

In mid-August, an emergence of a yellowish ant, probably a cornfield ant (Lasius sp.), attracted swarms of European Starlings. After passing over an ant, one of the starlings bent its tail downward and arched its head backward to corral the bug. The strange posture of this hawking starling is shown here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lrbevier/9609190819/
And this shows the ant in the beak:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lrbevier/9612424858/

I put together a set of photos from this year called In the Beak. Included are a kingbird toying with a dragonfly, a cuckoo crazy about fishflies, a guillemont with its favorite fish, and a Northern Shrike that chased down a Meadow Vole when all that white stuff was on the ground.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lrbevier/sets/72157635261027929/

Good Birding!

Louis Bevier
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Re: [Maine-birds] Ant hatch

I had a personal experience with a flying ant today as I was
birding Biddeford Pool. I kept scratching at an itchy spot on my upper
arm. I finally realized perhaps there was a bug there. Sure enough
there was a lump under my shirtsleeve. I pinched it and shook my arm
and a flying ant fell out! At least it wasn't a tick!

Joanne

On 8/27/2013 8:38 PM, wtownsend@roadrunner.com wrote:
> 8/27/13 Bar Harbor
> A big hatch of "flying" ants in Bar Harbor this evening, Herring, Ring-billed, and a couple of Laughing Gulls hawking them right over town.
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[Maine-birds] Sick Birds Replies

Thanks everyone for input on sick birds. I'll give my friend the information and advice.

Aloyse Larrabee

[Maine-birds] Ant hatch

8/27/13 Bar Harbor
A big hatch of "flying" ants in Bar Harbor this evening, Herring, Ring-billed, and a couple of Laughing Gulls hawking them right over town.
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[Maine-birds] Departing hummingbirds

8/27/13 Bar Harbor
I've had 8-10 Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, all female and/or immature at my feeders daily for the past three days. This evening right at dusk two were feeding alternately at the same feeder. As I watched the both hovered the took off together straight up over 40 ft. maple trees and continued upward and out of sight. They always have flown off into nearby shrubs at dusk. I think it is possible that I saw them actually leaving on their southward migration. (You folks farther south keep an eye out for them...they were green with grayish breasts!)
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Re: [Maine-birds] Hawking gulls

To your point, today, in Holden, Maine, just east of Bangor, there was a major outbreak of small flying ants. They were littering the pond, as in, every square inch. Later, in Brewer waiting outside a shop performing an oil change procedure on our Jeep, we watched a cloud of gulls "hawking", presumably, small flying ants (SFA) over Wilson Street in Brewer.

Trout fisherman...NO EXCUSES! Ant patterns!

rob speirs cumberland, me

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 7:41 PM, B G <bootsg@gmail.com> wrote:

Over the marsh area stretching into surrounding fields of Hog Bay in Franklin, some friends and I (separately) could not help but notice, a 200+ mixed gull flock, hawking. I was not equipped for birding. My friends were in a slightly different location. I don't know if they had birding equipment. Their best guess was a mixed flock of possibly Bonaparte's BOGU, Herring HERG and Great Black-backed GBBG with all species in various stages of maturity. I thought that I was seeing predominantly Black-legged Kittiwakes BLKI based on flight pattern and vocalizations. I'm certain I heard a GBBG or two as they flew over my car. Apparently I saw the end of the hour or so that they were doing this so wasn't seeing as dense flock of birds as my friends.

Ideas?

Boots Garrett

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[Maine-birds] Hawking gulls

Over the marsh area stretching into surrounding fields of Hog Bay in Franklin, some friends and I (separately) could not help but notice, a 200+ mixed gull flock, hawking. I was not equipped for birding. My friends were in a slightly different location. I don't know if they had birding equipment. Their best guess was a mixed flock of possibly Bonaparte's BOGU, Herring HERG and Great Black-backed GBBG with all species in various stages of maturity. I thought that I was seeing predominantly Black-legged Kittiwakes BLKI based on flight pattern and vocalizations. I'm certain I heard a GBBG or two as they flew over my car. Apparently I saw the end of the hour or so that they were doing this so wasn't seeing as dense flock of birds as my friends.

Ideas?

Boots Garrett

[Maine-birds] MDI Birds today - Common Nighthawk and Solitary S'piper

Hi all --

Solitary Sandpiper was seen this a.m. at the marsh on Lopaus Pt road in Bernard (Mt. Desert Island). It was feeding quietly and almost went unnoticed.

This evening overhead in SW Harbor we had ~16 Common Nighthawks briefly joining a mixed flock of gulls hawking their way through an insect hatch.

Small bands of peeps to be found in most patches of mudflats on the island, but no large flocks sighted so far.

Best,

Craig K

[Maine-birds] Waters around Great Wass.

Hey,
I was sailing the waters around Great Wass, Head Harbor, and Roque Islands this past Friday through Monday. The following are some sightings:

Manx Shearwater- 6 or 8

Great Shearwater- 4

Sooty Shearwater- 2

Razorbill- 200+ (Adults calling with deep grunt, young with much higher-pitched whistle.)

Red Knot- 1 (At Roque with a small number of other shorebirds.)

Black-legged Kittiwake- 1 (Photos.)

Good birding,

William Nichols

Stockton Springs

[Maine-birds] immature cedar waxwing

A pleasant hike around the perimeter trails at Gilsland Farm yesterday provided several photo opportunities. A tom turkey greeted us just before the parking lot, stood in front of the car and held us there for several minutes. Additionally we saw two hawks, an American bald eagle, four ospreys, lots of turkeys, finches and sparrows, cedar waxwings and this immature cedar waxwing. Thanks for the identification help on this guy...I couldn't even get into the ballpark on it.

http://photosbychance.zenfolio.com/p501323621/h682ef17c#h682ef17c

Cheers,

Dave

[Maine-birds] Overwhelming response to Id. request

Thank you everyone, who responded to my request for identification of this bird: http://photosbychance.zenfolio.com/p501323621/h6f3adb78#h6f3adb78

The vast majority of you honed in on the mask and yellow tips on the tail feathers. Identifying it as an immature cedar wax wing. I, for a while thought the

yellow tips were part of the golden rod sticking out from beneath the feathers, and focused on the side feather pattern that looked hawkish to me.

Once again, this very knowledgeable and helpful group has humbled me. Closer inspection of the yellow on the tail, shows that it is feather material, not textured

like the golden rod. I'll title this photo cedar waxwing immature and repost it.

I appreciate everyone's assistance.

Cheers,

Dave

Fwd: [Maine-birds] Id help, please

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From: Clark Moseley <an.doc.mo.72@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Maine-birds] Id help, please
To: David Small <docfinsdave@gmail.com>

My guess is a juvenile Cedar Waxwing. I think that the light is playing games with us, the vegetation is covering some important clues and the position of your camera in relation to the bird makes for a difficult I.D. Let me know what the common consensus is.

Chip

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:30 AM, David Small <docfinsdave@gmail.com> wrote:

I can't even get close to naming this guy. I got one quick shot at it while visiting Gilsland Farm yesterday. It's rather small maybe blue jay size.

Help!, please.

http://photosbychance.zenfolio.com/p501323621/h6f3adb78#h6f3adb78

Thanks,
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Re: [Maine-birds] Id help, please

juvie CEDW

On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:30:11 -0400, David Small <docfinsdave@gmail.com> wrote:

I can't even get close to naming this guy. I got one quick shot at it while visiting Gilsland Farm yesterday. It's rather small maybe blue jay size.

Help!, please.

http://photosbychance.zenfolio.com/p501323621/h6f3adb78#h6f3adb78

Thanks,
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Re: [Maine-birds] Id help, please

I am betting that it is Merlin. Check out the chest.

Bob

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Smith, Michael <Michael.Smith@maine.gov> wrote:

Yes I have been having a sidebar with other folks and will yield to Waxwing. On my tiny phone screen the tail tips get lost in the flower and the blue seems bluebirdish instead of the Waxwing silver.

Michael Smith MS GISP
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From: Doug Hitchcox

Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 10:28 AM

To: Smith, Michael

Cc: David Small; Maine-Birds google list

Subject: Re: [Maine-birds] Id help, please

I'll bet this would be an easier ID if the bird were not sitting on (Seaside?) Goldenrod.

Looking at the face, you can make out a white outline around an otherwise dark mask with a combed back tuft still prominent against the nape - starting to look good for a Cedar Waxwing. The cool slate gray color on the wings and tail are probably the trick with this dorsal view that would make you think bluebird but the browner tones on the back still point towards our waxwing. Then the best feature from this angle is perfectly camouflaged against the goldenrod: yellow tips on the tail - definitely a Cedar Waxwing! It is a young bird though, the back looks a little mottled and the streaking on the flanks, plus no red tips on the secondaries, are all good characters of a young Cedar Waxwing.

I believe it was last Thursday's birdwalk at Gilsland when we saw our first juvenile waxwings (actually feeding in the goldenrod in the North Meadow). This species is a late summer nester to align with the availability of summer-riping fruit. Another sign that summer is wrapping up!

Good birding,

Doug Hitchcox

Hollis, ME

On Aug 27, 2013, at 9:40 AM, "Smith, Michael" <Michael.Smith@maine.gov> wrote:

Well personally I would name it "Fluffy".

:)

(as for species it's a young Eastern Bluebird)

Michael Smith MS GISP
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From: David Small

Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 8:30 AM

To: Maine-Birds google list

Subject: [Maine-birds] Id help, please

I can't even get close to naming this guy. I got one quick shot at it while visiting Gilsland Farm yesterday. It's rather small maybe blue jay size.

Help!, please.

http://photosbychance.zenfolio.com/p501323621/h6f3adb78#h6f3adb78

Thanks,

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