Thursday, 6 December 2012

Re: [Maine-birds] Re: (Maine Birds) PIGR Mating displays and quiet Whisper Song" on Mount Desert Island

Hello,
 
Todays finch were Common Redpoll on a run across the Shore Path with my new friend..... (don't ever let you daughter talk you into a dog!! It's yours forever
 
Shore Path Bar Harbor , Hancock, US-ME
Dec 6, 2012 7:50 AM
Protocol: Incidental
Comments: Nico and I on a run this morning across the shore path on the east side of Bar Harbor Inn. A flock of 17 C. Redpoll showing wonderful purple-ish chest and belly. The temperature was 31 F but felt colder with the North Wind howling this morning. The flock spooked and surfed the winds heading SW into Bar Harbor. Probably to Bill Townsend's Feeder!
6 species

Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) 4
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) 40
Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) 35
European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) 10
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) 1
Common Redpoll (Acanthis flammea) 17

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S12235162
 
Michael
 
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Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Maine-birds] Re: (Maine Birds) PIGR Mating displays and quiet Whisper Song" on Mount Desert Island
 
Hi all,
 
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
 
 
 
 
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