Sunday 29 March 2015

Re: [Maine-birds] Digest for maine-birds@googlegroups.com - 15 updates in 13 topics

Monhegan Report
     Red winged blackbirds arrived this week, about ten days late. Today we have a Killdeer, Woodcock and Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Bill Boynton

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 4:43 PM, <maine-birds@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Cheryl Duford <cduford33@gmail.com>: Mar 28 01:10PM -0700

https://www.flickr.com/photos/decksidethoughts/sets/72157650937612038/
 
Nubble: Harlequins, Long-tailed Ducks still hanging out as is a Great
Cormorant or two. Common Eiders abundant.
 
Wheeler: American Black, Mallards, and Canada Goose plus Common Goldeneye,
Buffleheads, Common Loons, and FOY GBH.
 
Cheryl Duford
Portsmouth, NH
RALPH ELDRIDGE <lightrae1@gmail.com>: Mar 28 12:39PM -0700

The handful of ROBINS, that feed around our lawn yesterday seem to have
moved on, replaced by two (2) separate KILLDEER.
I figured that the plovers must be hard pressed to find insects but they
seemed to glean enough to hang around.
I did see them each find a couple winter-preserved earth worms (drown in
our catch basin and frozen in until a few days ago).
 
No real activity with the Alcids, just a few RAZORBILLS hanging about.
 
Today also saw a few GREAT CORMORANTS moving east, the first, small flocks
that I've noticed this Spring.
 
HARLEQUIN DUCKS, as usual, have been demonstrating their surf techniques
all day. One of their daily feeding spots is the shoreline directly in
front of the house so it's comfortable viewing just out the kitchen window
every day, any time.
John Lazzaro <ultimatespinachfilms@gmail.com>: Mar 28 01:29PM -0400

Flyover. Seen briefly between 1:15-1:20 PM, from the end of Harbor Rd in Wells. Headed towards Drakes Island.
 
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Monica Grabin <grabinmonica@gmail.com>: Mar 28 11:01AM -0400

To the left of Hattie's you can walk along the beach and it's right on the
shore. It's not 10 yards from me.
sally Blauvelt <sally.blauvelt@gmail.com>: Mar 28 11:41AM -0400

No longer there.....:-(.
 
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Derek and Jeannette Lovitch <freeportwildbird@yahoo.com>: Mar 28 03:31PM

Hi all,Just gleaned this off of the Mass-birds list serve. The location is at the end of Harbor Rd.-Derek
 "Mark Timmerman from New Hampshire just called to tell me he had had the
juvenile dark morph Gyrfalcon by the harbormaster shack on the pier in
Wells, Maine. No other birders were present at the time. The Gyr flushed all
the pigeons, then sat down about 20 ft away briefly in poor light, and flew
off.
 
"Best,
Paul
 
"Paul M. Roberts
Medford, MA
phawk254@comcast.net"*****************************************
Derek and Jeannette Lovitch
Freeport Wild Bird Supply
541 Route One, Suite 10
Freeport, ME 04032
207-865-6000
www.freeportwildbirdsupply.com
 
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Doug Hitchcox <dhitchcox@mac.com>: Mar 28 09:33AM -0400

The SURFBIRD is currently being seen on the edge of the pool, behind Hattie's near the end of Mile Stretch Road.
 
Good birding,
 
 
Doug Hitchcox
 
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sally Blauvelt <sally.blauvelt@gmail.com>: Mar 28 10:24AM -0400

On our way! Thanks so much. You all rock.
 
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Craig Kesselheim <ckesselheim@gmail.com>: Mar 28 08:56AM -0400

Hi all -- there may be more hiding out there, but I had a great and close
look at at least one male Rusty Blackbird in my yard just now, accompanying
a small mixed flock of R-w Blackbirds and Common Grackles.
 
Craig K
Raven Watcher <ravenwatcher@gmail.com>: Mar 28 07:19AM -0400

Hello All,
 
Along with my monthly river survey scouted a few other locations, yesterday.
 
Long-tailed Duck continues on Androscoggin River below Great Falls
Lewiston/Auburn.
 
American Woodcock observed doing that slow shimmy thing that they do along
North River Road, Auburn. I had always thought that this might be a way of
disturbing prey in the soil as a way of foraging but this bird was doing it
as it walked away from me. Also flock of 45 Bohemian Waxwings in flight.
 
High pitched calls of Snow Geese alerted me to the presence of at least 400
flying very high overhead over North River Road. There could have been
many more as I had a difficult time locating them and some had passed
before I could count.
 
Bald Eagles appeared not to have eggs or young yet but both on nest
adjusting nest material.
 
An hour of hawk-watching on Upper Road Turner yielded one Red-tailed Hawk
apparently migrating, eight Turkey Vultures and one dark eagle at a
distance that I could not conclusively identify that descended into some
trees on the far side of a hill.
 
FOY Grackle and Red-winged Blackbirds on Bowie HIll Road in Durham and a
lone Northern Shrike on Davis Road in same spot I had observed on a month
ago in the fields a few hundred yards southwest of the junction with Bowie
Hill Road.
 
Dan Nickerson
Freeport ME 04032
 
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Nancy Houlihan <nhoulihan1@gmail.com>: Mar 27 10:14PM -0400

3 at Scarborough Marsh today. Saw them fly in along with 2 Great Blues. ?
New arrivals
Julia Hanauer-Milne <windyridgemaine@gmail.com>: Mar 27 08:03PM -0400

RW blackbirds were singing away yesterday in Belgrade and then today they
made it to Sidney. I also had a bluebird today in Sidney--probably one that
has appeared off and on this winter.
 
Julia
"Marie" <mijord@maine.rr.com>: Mar 27 06:11PM -0400

I had a well timed grocery shopping trip this afternoon to Hannaford's at Mill Cove in SP - around 2:30 pm - well, actually a tad too late to see the Eagle take down its prey but in time to watch it lunch on it. So not sure if it took the Herring Gull down or the gull had already succumbed to other forces of nature and presented an easy pick for the eagle.
 
Anyhow, a great feast for the eagle. Lots of folks watching it close up from the parking area. Lots of ooohs ad aaahs from the viewers. The eagle had to hurry as the spot where it decided to feed was slowly getting flooded by the incoming tide. As you can see from the pics, it flew away after finishing off most of the gull.
 
Some of my pics posted on flickr on the link below if you want to take a look. Great bird!!!!!
 
Marie Jordan
 

 

 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/55woodduck/?
Derek Lovitch <freeportwildbird@yahoo.com>: Mar 27 06:05PM -0400

Derek and Jeannette Lovitch <freeportwildbird@yahoo.com>: Mar 27 09:50PM

Hi all,
Additional highlights for me over the past seven days included:- 8 Dunlin, Winslow Park, Freeport, 3/21 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).- 2 Killdeer (FOY), 1 Northern Harrier (FOY), 2 Northern Pintails, and 8 Sanderlings, Reid State Park, Georgetown, 3/24 (with Evan Obercian and Andrew Wolfgang).- 1 1st w Iceland Gull, Bath waterfront, 3/24 (with Andrew Wolfgang).- 1 hen Wood Duck (early; locally wintered?), New Meadows River at Bath-Brunswick Rd, 3/24 (with Andrew Wolfgang).- 21 Common Grackles (FOY), Capisic Pond Park, Portland, 3/26.- 3 SNOWY OWLS, Biddeford Pool area, 3/27.- 12 Razorbills and 3 Green-winged Teal, East Point, Biddeford Pool, 3/27.- 1 Black-bellied Plover (FOY), 1 Savannah Sparrow (FOS), 1 Greater Scaup, and 4 Green-winged Teal, The Pool, Biddeford Pool, 3/27.- 1 Merlin and 1 Great Blue Heron (FOY), but no Gyrfalcon, Wells Harbor, 3/27.
- 2 Common Redpolls continue at our feeders in Pownal.
- Other migrants noted widely this week:Canada GooseAmerican Black DuckMallardAmerican Tree SparrowSong SparrowDark-eyed JuncoRed-winged BlackbirdPine Siskin
Photos: 1) My lousy phone-scoped photo of the Surfbird from 3/22:https://www.facebook.com/Freeportwildbird/photos/a.977418758954745.1073741840.198877036808925/1026776770685610/?type=1&theater
 
2) Jeannette's anything-but-lousy photos of the Gyrfalcon from 3/24 (click left or right for additional images):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/freeportwildbird/16927930545/in/set-72157625893018447
-Derek 
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Derek and Jeannette Lovitch
Freeport Wild Bird Supply
541 Route One, Suite 10
Freeport, ME 04032
207-865-6000
www.freeportwildbirdsupply.com
 
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