[Maine-birds] Common Gallinules, Am Golden Plovers and plenty of migrating hawks & passerines - Lake Josephine, Sep 8, 2012

Hi all -- with thanks to Bill for the early report yesterday, here is one of our eBird lists. The list below comes from Lake Josephine eBird hot spot, and involved walking the s. dike and then descending s. into the wetlands due s. of the dike.

As always, Bill is a great and super talented County birding host, and being out there with him was a blast.

Other highlights from a total 3 hours in the area included:

• 23 Am. Golden Plovers (pretty exhilarating!) just n. of the Conant Rd
• 1 Wilson's Snipe in Mars Hill (intown reservoir)
• decent "duckage" on Christina Reservoir (Gadwall, Ring-necks, others), plus another Merlin and a scattering of shorebirds
• nothing amazing at Trafton Reservoir

Happy to share other eBird lists from specific locales with anyone interested.

Best,
Craig K

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Date: Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:32 AM
Subject: eBird Report - Lake Josephine, Sep 8, 2012
To: ckesselheim@gmail.com

Lake Josephine, Aroostook, US-ME
Sep 8, 2012 7:50 AM - 9:15 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.3 mile(s)
Comments:     With Bill Sheehan; gusty and overcast, but the mist cleared
49 species

Canada Goose  15
Wood Duck  8
Gadwall  25
American Black Duck  1
Mallard  X
Blue-winged Teal  3
Northern Shoveler  1
Green-winged Teal  2
Ring-necked Duck  6
Lesser Scaup  4
Common Goldeneye  3
Hooded Merganser  6
Common Loon  1
Pied-billed Grebe  3
Double-crested Cormorant  17
Great Blue Heron  1
Osprey  1
Northern Harrier  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Bald Eagle  1
Common Gallinule  2     Seen with scopes by both observers.
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Ring-billed Gull  15
Herring Gull  1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  3
Belted Kingfisher  4
Downy Woodpecker  1
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  3
Merlin  2
Eastern Phoebe  2
Blue Jay  3
Black-capped Chickadee  1
Veery  1
Hermit Thrush  1
American Robin  6
Gray Catbird  1
European Starling  1
Common Yellowthroat  1
American Redstart  1
Chestnut-sided Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  5
Song Sparrow  1
White-throated Sparrow  4
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1
Red-winged Blackbird  2
Purple Finch  1
American Goldfinch  6

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)

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