[Maine-birds] Some Highlights from the "Bean Count"-Sunday, 12/29/13

The "Bean Count" - southwestern half of the Freeport-Brunswick CBC

 

From Gordon Smith in the Maquoit Bay Section:

2 Barred Owls

1 Great Horned Owl

1 Northern Saw-whet Owl

1 Bohemian with Cedar Waxwing flock foraging on crabapples in Parkview Hospital parking lot.

.....plus 848 American Crow

 

From Jay Adams and Chuck Barnes in the South Freeport Section:

5 Barrow's Goldeneyes

30 Dunlin

9 Ruddy Turnstone

8 Purple Sandpiper

 

From Beverly Johnson and Rob Lambert on Chebeague

1 Snowy Owl

1 Hermit Thrush

 

From Marie Jordan & Crew in the Cousin's Island Section

1 Great Blue Heron on the Royal River in Yarmouth

 

From Doug Hitchcox in the "Downtown Brunswick" Section

1 Northern Pintail hanging out with Mallards

 

From Becky Marvil and Nancy Houlihan in the Wolfe's Neck Section

3 Hermit Thrush

 

.....And from George Sergeant on Bailey and Orr's Island (northeastern half of the circle)

A Peregrine Falcon and Snowy Owl in the same binocular view off Lands End on Bailey's Island

2 Northern Flickers