Name: Maine Audubon Rare Bird Alert
Reporting Period: November 15 – 21, 2014
Area: State of Maine
Compilers: Doug Hitchcox
Noteworthy Species Mentioned:
Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Redhead
Pacific Loon
Cattle Egret
Black-headed Gull
Little Gull
Snowy Owl
Western Kingbird
Tree Swallow
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Varied Thrush
Clay-colored Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
(+ Details requested by Maine Bird Records Committee: https://sites.google.com/site/mainebirdrecordscommittee/)
York County
On the 15th, a SNOWY OWL was reported from the top of Mount Agamenticus in York.
A SNOWY OWL was seen at the Strawberry Island Preserve off Great Hill Road in Kennebunk on the 20th.
A PACIFIC LOON was found off East Point Sanctuary in Biddeford on the 16th and was still being reported there as of the 21st.
A late BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER was photographed at the Saco River Walk off Front Street in Saco on the 20th. An AMERICAN REDSTART was seen here throughout the week.
Greater Portland
A WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL, rare this season, was seen at the feeders of the Freeport Wild Bird Supply on Route 1 in Freeport on the 15th. A BALTIMORE ORIOLE was also reported there that day.
The fields off Stroudwater Street in Westbrook held a SNOW GOOSE and GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE sporadically throughout the week.
A GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was also being seen throughout the week in the fields at Thornhurst Farm, located off Walnut Hill Road in North Yarmouth.
A SNOWY OWL was seen along Interstate 295, just south of Topsham, on the 19th.
Lewiston-Auburn
At least two REDHEADS continued at Sabattus Pond on the 15th.
A CATTLE EGRET was reported from Johnson Hill Road in West Poland on the 16th.
Kennebec River Valley (Augusta-Waterville)
On the morning of the 17th, a CATTLE EGRET was photographed on Garland Road in Winslow.
Midcoast
Two late TREE SWALLOWS were photographed at Head Beach in Phippsburg on the 16th.
On the 15th, a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was photographed at Popham Beach State Park.
Downeast
A LARK SPARROW was found at the King's Point bend of Manset Shore Road in Southwest Harbor on the 15th and continued there through the 17th.
On the 16th, a WESTERN KINGBIRD was photographed at the Stanley Brook parking area in Seal Harbor. A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was seen here on the 17th.
A VARIED THRUSH was photographed while briefly visiting a Whitneyville yard on the 19th.
An adult LITTLE GULL was spotted feeding with gulls in the upwellings of the Old Sow whirlpool off Eastport on the 18th. A first-winter BLACK-HEADED GULL was seen here on the 19th.
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