Thank you to the experts here who looked at the fuzzy photos and were able to identify the duck in an Englishmans Bay estuary as a Northern Pintail. The explanations and identification are much appreciated.
-- Today in the fading light and using the last shots before the camera battery gave out I took pictures of a ground-feeding sparrow near the Englishmans River and just a few meters from Englishmans Bay.
The sparrow had a flat head with a median stripe, a post ocular dark stripe, an unstreaked breast, wing bars, and a small bill. It looked a lot like a White-throated Sparrow but lacked the bib. I posted the egregiously awful photos on iNaturalist and called it a Chipping Sparrow. If you would like to correct this, please take a look. My user name on iNaturalist is carol-in-maine.
We have had a Tufted Titmouse in Roque Bluffs for 12 days in a row! We can't remember having seen one here before. Are others in Washington County seeing this species? Pine Siskins made a stop at the feeder two days ago but seem to have flown elsewhere. Carol
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