Nelson's Sharp-tailed sparrows all over the place, darting and dashing and disappearing into the grasses and calling constantly, only a short distance from the Machias dike (enter across from Dunkin' Donuts on Rte 1). July 30, 8:30- 9:30a.m. This trail is wonderful but don't go on a weekend unless you want to share it with bumper to bumper ATVs.
Photos here: http://acadiabirds.wordpress.com/
The list for the morning of July 30:
Canada Geese
Great Blue Heron 1
Osprey 1
Bald Eagle 1
Black-bellied Plover - half dozen or so
Greater Yellowlegs - just a few
Willet- 5-6
Peeps - a few
Bonaparte's Gulls- half a dozen or so looking like butterflies at the joining of the Middle and Machias (?) Rivers
Ring-billed gulls
Herring gulls
Amer. Crows
Catbird 1
Common Yellowthroat - 1 not singing
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrows- every few yards in the prime habitat- in one place 4 flew out of the same clump of grass
Song Sparrows
D.E. Junco- heard in the woods beyond the flats
Also interesting, a Northern Cardinal on a wire, on the Kennebec Bay Rd near where it joins Rte 1 at Tom's Mini-Mart; I've seen these reported on our list in the Machias area, but this was the first we've seen here; we turned the car around and went back for a second look.
At Cow Point (Roque Bluffs) the Black-throated Green was still singing, a Yellow-rumped was silent. Heard the Hermit thrush but not the Swainson's. C. Loons calling.
In my yard in Bar Harbor/Town Hill, a Chipping Sparrow under the feeder.
Carol in Town Hill
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