[Maine-birds] More fast-food grosbeaks and a Jonesport report

Wednesday, 5 December 2012

[Maine-birds] More fast-food grosbeaks and a Jonesport report

I am going to keep an eye out at McDonald's. Their oatmeal has a lot of fresh fruit in it. I can visualize a 'white-faced grosbeak' picking fruit out of blueberry flavored Greek yogurt. Interesting evolutionary trends in action.

Bird report:

In the real world, I spent five hours standing on a ledge in a remote area of Jonesport yesterday:

5 Pine grosbeaks - Another pine grosbeak report (which are getting monotonous),

4 Boreal chickadees,

15 White-winged crossbills (three or four groups either flying over or feeding in surrounding black spruce, red spruce and hybrid red and black spruce (very common in this area),

3 or 4 Black-capped chickadees,

4 Golden-crowned kinglets

4 Common ravens

4-5 American crows

4 Red squirrels

1 Large porcupine snoozing about 3 feet up in a spruce tree

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Smith, Michael <Michael.Smith@maine.gov> wrote:

Pine Grosbeaks hanging out at Wendy's in Augusta today over by Anthony Ave. I think I saw one order a Frosty…

Also a solo Killdeer still here in the grass at my office (51 Commerce Dr).

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Michael Smith
State GIS Manager, Maine Office of GIS
State of Maine, Office of Information Technology
michael.smith _at_ maine.gov
207-215-5530

Board Member, Maine GeoLibrary
Board Member, Maine GIS Users Group
State Rep, National States Geographic Information Council

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51 Commerce Drive
Augusta, ME 04333-0145
69^o 47' 58.9"W 44^o 21' 54.8"N

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