[Maine-birds] This Week's Highlights, 6/8-14

Hi all,

My observations of note over the past seven days included the following:

- 6+ Gray Jays, 1 Olive-sided Flycatcher, etc, Boy Scout Road, Rangeley, 6/8 (with Rangeley Birding Festival tour group).

- 1 RUSTY BLACKBIRD, 1 Blackpoll Warbler (migrant?), etc, Boy Scout Road, Rangeley, 6/9 (with Rangeley Birding Festival tour group).

- 7 Upland Sandpipers, 7 Grasshopper Sparrows, 11 Vesper Sparrows, etc, Kennebunk Plains, Kennebunk, 6/10 (with Jeannette).

- 1 continuing male BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, Smutty Lane, Saco, 6/10 (with Jeannette).

- 1 continuing LITTLE EGRET, Providence Ave, Falmouth and then relocating to Tidewater Farm, Falmouth, 6/10 (with Jeannette).

- 1 continuing HYBRID TRICOLORED HERON X SMALL WHITE EGRET(S), Eastern Road Trail, Scarborough Marsh, 6/14.  At this point, I think it's lineage is impossible to determine, but I wonder about Tricolored Heron x Snowy Egret x Little Egret at this point based on plumage, timeline, plumage progression, etc.  Whatever...I just call it Patches II now.

- 1 Greater Yellowlegs, Eastern Road Trail, 6/14.

- 1 female PURPLE MARTIN, Dunstan Landing, Scarborough Marsh, 6/14.

-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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