I poked around central and northern Aroostook County over the past few days to get a feel for the goose situation. Numbers have been rapidly building over the past ten days. By my crude tally, I estimate at least 19,000 Canada Geese are currently in the area.
-- Collins Pond in Caribou is hosting about 2,400 in the middle of the day today. A Snow Goose was hanging out with them. About 25 Northern Shovelers, Green-winged and Blue-winged Teal, Hooded Mergansers and plenty of Mallards and Blacks are also moving with them.
Limestone area has at least 3,000 birds including 1,400 at Malabeam Lake (A Snow Goose and 70+ Ring-necked Ducks here also). Nearly 1,000 were roosting down town on Thursday
Up at Long Lake, about 900 Canadas are roosting on the lake. About 5 hundred big gulls are also spending time in the north end in St Agatha.. 130 were Great Black-backed Gulls and a Lesser Black-backed and Bonaparte's Gull were also seen there on Thursday. There were a nice bunch of American Pipits (60+) here too.
Presque Isle has about 4,500 geese roosting in the area with about half of these spending time on Arnold Brook Lake. Two roosting spots on the Aroostook River and two private ponds are sharing the balance.
Fort Fairfield also has about 5,000 geese with Monson Pond, Christina Reservoir and several spots on the Aroostook River hold most of these during roosting times.
The Easton area has 1000+ Canadas roosting on two private ponds as well as a couple hundred at Lake Jo.
Mars Hill, Washburn, Mapleton, Ashland, Portage Lake, Bridgewater and Conner also have smaller flocks (hundreds) but I haven't spent time chasing these down yet.
No unusual geese yet but I expect there's got to be a few interesting honkers in this mass of birds.
Other interesting birdy stuff this week was a very late Ruby-throated Hummingbird and some Eastern Bluebirds in New Canada, a Northern Goshawk in Presque Isle and a pair of late adult Broad-winged Hawks soaring over down town Limestone on Thursday. (I was tipped off to these by the geese on the pond tilting their heads skyward).
Good birding!
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