Friday, 30 November 2018

Re: [Maine-birds] Abridged summary of maine-birds@googlegroups.com - 24 updates in 9 topics

Owl in Cape Elizabeth...very vocal outside my kitchen door...

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 3:35 PM <maine-birds@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Ken Klapper <kklapper@gmail.com>: Nov 30 11:31AM -0800

After pulling ourselves away from the incredible Great Black Hawk in
Portland this morning, Tony Vazzano and I saw an adult dark-morph
Rough-legged Hawk along Route 25 in Gorham, just west of the ...more
Andrew Block <andrewblock7@gmail.com>: Nov 30 10:21AM -0800

Hi all,
 
If the Great Black Hawk hangs around again til evening I will be heading up
to get there by dawn and was wondering the best places to park free. Any
help will be appreciated. Thanks. ...more
Derek Lovitch <freeportwildbird@yahoo.com>: Nov 30 01:48PM -0500

Andrew, et al,
 
There is ample parking along Park Avenue, but as people begin to get home from work, that will start filling up. Especially if you are coming off of I-295 at the Forest Avenue exit, ...more
Kristen Lindquist <kelindquist@gmail.com>: Nov 30 12:13PM -0500

Just got a report from a birder friend who was up on Beech Hill in Rockport
this morning that "the only thing up there was crows and Bohemian Waxwings!"
 
Beech Hill Preserve, a stop on the Maine ...more
Brian Willson <willson@3ip.com>: Nov 30 12:25PM -0500

Ran into him coming down and am bummed to have missed the waxwings -- but, aside from crows and chickadees, I spied a pair of Pine Grosbeaks and a solitary Snow Bunting in flight up there this ...more
Doug Hitchcox <dhitchcox@mac.com>: Nov 30 06:47AM -0500

Arrived on the scene at 6:40AM to a group on the bird, perched it the catalpa near the corner of Park Ave and Deering Ave.
 
Good birding,
 
 
Doug Hitchcox
Maine Audubon
 
Sent from my iPhone ...more
Andrea Bean <abean60@gmail.com>: Nov 30 05:58AM -0800

8:57 and great black hawk still here. There is a red-tailed in a nearby pine and the GBH hasn't taken it's eye off of it.
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Andrea Bean <abean60@gmail.com>: Nov 30 06:25AM -0800

Red tailed attacked the great Black hawk twice they both flew off out of the park. 9:25
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Derek Lovitch <freeportwildbird@yahoo.com>: Nov 30 09:34AM -0500

The bird is now in view in a Norway Spruce in front of The Iris Network building in Park Ave, about half way between Deering Oaks Park and Hadlock Field.
 
-Derek
 
Sent from my iPhone
 
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<danafox@comcast.net>: Nov 30 06:39AM -0800

Thanks for info. We are on our way.
Dana and Bob Fox
 
 
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Ian Carlsen <i.a.carlsen@gmail.com>: Nov 30 11:00AM -0500

Continues as of 10:54 directly across from the Holy Donut on Park Ave.
There's quite a crowd and it's probably a great time to remind all to
continue to respect traffic, and patronize a local ...more
Doug Hitchcox <dhitchcox@mac.com>: Nov 30 12:04PM -0500

Moved back to Deering Oaks Park at 12:02PM, at Deering/Park intersection.
 
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Michael Boardman <mike@coyotees.com>: Nov 30 10:31AM -0500

Seems like a good day for hawks, red shouldered coursing my backyard in North Yarmouth this morning.
He can have his choice of house sparrows or squirrels-
Nice yard bird!
 
Michael Boardman ...more
Eric Eklund <fbtours@aol.com>: Nov 30 03:28PM

Hi!  
I was pleased to see a NORTHERN FLICKER on the hot pepper suet tube this AM. We purchased the suet to deter the squirrels and it's working out extremely well. There has been Juncos, Carolina ...more
Stan DeOrsey <jsmd@att.net>: Nov 30 09:54AM -0500

For people who want to see how to separate Great Black Hawk from Common
Black Hawk in immature plumage, see this ebird page, it is very good.
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"Robert O'Connell" <flashart123@gmail.com>: Nov 29 06:45PM -0500

Hey Macklin,
 
No sure if you saw my last post. My son and I were the last to leave after dark. The hawk had pulled up in a tree across from 132 Park Avenue. In my earlier post I had ...more
Doug Hitchcox <dhitchcox@mac.com>: Nov 29 03:48PM -0500

I have to leave but there are still a handful of people around. It has been perched in a catalpa tree, still near the corner of Deering and Park, for the last hour and twenty minutes.
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John James <jwjamesiv@gmail.com>: Nov 29 01:32PM -0800

Would somebody please be more specific? Neither "Black Hawk" nor "Great
Black Hawk" is listed on Cornell's huge www.allaboutbirds.com web site.
What species are we talking about?
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"Boots." <bootsg@gmail.com>: Nov 29 04:43PM -0500

Buteogallus urubitinga
 
 
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*~Boots.*
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Bill Grabin <grabin@roadrunner.com>: Nov 29 04:48PM -0500

It's the Great Black Hawk:
https://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/grbhaw1/overview
 
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Kristen Lindquist <kelindquist@gmail.com>: Nov 29 04:49PM -0500

This is an extremely rare bird to be seen in the US; this individual is one
of the first, and the first in Maine.
 
https://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/grbhaw1/overview ...more
Robin R Robinson <rrrobinson2010@hotmail.com>: Nov 29 09:59PM

A Facebook MAINE Birds member has reported and photo'ed this bird in the Canco Woods Trail this bird on OCTOBER 23rd. She has been encouraged to enter this to eBird. RRR ...more
Rob O'Connell <flashart123@gmail.com>: Nov 29 05:36PM -0500

We left at dark and it was roosting in an oak across from 132 park street. Shortly after you left a red tailed hawk landed in the tree where you left it and flexed it's muscles for a bit before the ...more
Rob O'Connell <flashart123@gmail.com>: Nov 29 06:32PM -0500

Sorry that was 132 Park AVENUE! My bad. Apologies to everyone who lives on Park Street who wakes up to a gaggle of birders on their porches. :-)
 
Thanks,
Rob O'Connell
 
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