The migrant Canada Goose flocks have been arriving in northern Maine for the past three weeks.
-- Numbers have not quite peaked yet, but I made the rounds to the central Aroostook roost sites Friday and Saturday and estimate about 60,000 in the area. Largest flocks (4,000+) seem to be at Limestone, Fort Fairfield and Presque Isle but flocks of 100+ are well-scattered across the landscape. Trafton Lake and the mill pond in Limestone, Lake Josephine in Easton and Puddledock pond, the Aroostook River through Fort Fairfield and the mill pond in Mars Hill offer good opportunities to observe big aggregations.
Other than a pair of adult Snow Geese at Lake Jo, three Snows at Long Lake in St. Agatha and a couple Cackling Geese in Limestone, there haven't been reports of any rarities yet. The next two weeks of October are historically the times when Euro vagrants tend to be spotted here.
FYI-Collins Pond in Caribou, a past hotspot for goose watchers, is a meandering stream since the washout of the dam there this spring. Its still attracting a few hundred geese (including, recently, a white-bodied leucistic Canada) but not the numbers that visited in the past.
Good birding
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