[Maine-birds] Chukar and Northern Bobwhite at Kennebunk Plains

Hi all,

Just a heads up -- in case anyone goes birding at the Maguire Road section of the Kennebunk Plains and spots an exotic-looking game bird, there apparently was a stocked Chukar hunt there on Sunday. We walked there yesterday morning (4/23) and ran into a couple of folks running dogs. They asked if we'd seen any Chukar (!!???!), and then told us about the hunt the previous day. Oddly enough, shortly after running into them we encountered another oddity, a Northern Bobwhite, perhaps also one of the stockees. We did finally see one Chukar as we neared the parking lot at the end of our walk. Guess I can't legitimately count it as a Lifer!

On the native/wild bird front, we did see our FOY Hermit Thrush (another turned up in our yard in West K'bunk in the afternoon), our FOY Pine Warbler, and were able to confirm the presence of Vesper Sparrows, on which I'd reported conditionally a few days ago.  Also a Palm Warbler or two, Field Sparrows, Song Sparrows, and numerous Phoebes. Not a raptor in sight, though the hunters said that their activities on Sunday had attracted quite the crowd.

pfw

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Paul F. Wells
West Kennebunk, ME
USA

"That's the good thing about science: It's true whether or not you believe in it."

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