[Maine-birds] Sightings on Flat Bay, Harrington

The last of the wintering ducks, Common Goldeneye, has finally joined the large flocks of Bufflehead and Long-tailed Ducks using Flat Bay.  Good numbers of Black-belled Plover, Semipalmated Sandpipers and a sprinkling of Least Sandpipers and Dunlin are still coming through and feeding on the mudflats at low tide.  And this morning we had a nice surprise - a Common  Murre ( in winter plumage, of course) floating around with Bufflehead in shallow water quite farther up the bay than we would expect for an alcid. That threw us for a few minutes!!!

Lots more Black-capped Chickadees and Red-breasted Nuthatches than this time last year. Last winter those 2 species were quite scarce in our area. And there is a Blue Jay that has perfected a Northern Goshawk call. It glides into thick conifers close to the feeders, does the raptor call, all the feeding birds scramble away and then it saunters in to take what it wants. We've seen this behavior before in southern New Hampshire except the jay mimicked a Broad-winged Hawk. 

Anne Archie, Harrington 

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