Friday, 20 July 2012

[Maine-birds] Saxl Park, Bangor - EASTERN TOWHEE

This afternoon in a long walk around the perimeter I saw a female EASTERN TOWHEE fly into a thicket along the shrub & tree-enclosed path (near the bench) that runs along the old fence border.  Its red eye was very visible as it flicked around half-hidden under some bushes.   Only the second Towhee I've seen in Bangor.
 
The Saxl Park fields were mowed this week, with no observed disruptions to the Bobolinks or Savannah Sparrows...just a few immature Savannahs who seemed irritated.
 
Species:  21
 
Herring Gull - x (flyovers)
Mourning Dove - x
Chimney Swift - 1
Hairy Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
E. Kingbird - 2
Am. Crow - x
B-C Chickadee - x
Am. Robin - 3
Gray Catbird - 2
Cedar Waxwing - ~8
Yellow Warbler - 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3 (one yellow-backed immature)
C. Yellowthroat - ~4
EASTERN TOWHEE - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 30 +
Song Sparrow - 20 +
Bobolink - 30 +
R-W Blackbird - ~12
House Finch - 4
Am. Goldfinch - ~5
 
Sean Smith
 
 
 
 
 
 
  

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