I encourage everyone to keep reporting pine grosbeaks and other finches. Micheal, this was a interesting story. I am sure I will report the next bunch that I run into.
--
-- Each year we should tally up the number of winter finch and other eruptive species reports by species. There must be a threshold level for reports that correlates with a true invasion, red-breasted nuthatches and waxwings included. Also, they map the range and seasonality of the invasion (e.g., early vs. late winter, fall passage 'invasion').
Keep them coming!
Norm Famous.from Augusta
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Down East Nature Tours <info@downeastnaturetours.com> wrote:
--Hello all,I had a few errands to run this afternoon which took me across the Village Green in Bar Harbor. I realized there were Pine Grosbeaks in the trees but than I noticed two break away and land at the other end of the Green where the male was perched above the female giving a long and quiet "whisper song" which I had not heard before. It was a wonderful mixture of notes. Some photos taken .I know for Norman it is another Pine Grosbeak story but we have not had them in such numbers for many years so it is a treat to see them lumbering around Bar Harbor.Michael
Maine birds mailing list
maine-birds@googlegroups.com
http://groups.google.com/group/maine-birds
https://sites.google.com/site/birding207
Norman Famous, Wetlands and Wildlife Ecologist
513 Eight Rod Road
Augusta, ME 04330
(207) 623 6072
Maine birds mailing list
maine-birds@googlegroups.com
http://groups.google.com/group/maine-birds
https://sites.google.com/site/birding207
0 comments:
Post a Comment