[Maine-birds] Yellow Warbler, Eastern Towhee etc @ Gilsland Farm Falmouth

I was conducting a shorebird survey this morning at Gilsland Farm in Falmouth and was treated to a pleasant morning. A Yellow Warbler sang from the North Meadow while I counted a few of my first Lesser Yellowlegs of the year amongst the Greater. A tom Turkey was gobbling and strutting after 3 White-Tailed Deer galloped through the meadow. 20+ Savannah Sparrows were found throughout the property with most flushing from the grass in the west meadow and a few were singing. A female Eastern Towhee was foraging around the feeders on the parking lot side of the nature center and was last seen in the kicking at the leaf litter under the row of pines bordering the lot and the rose garden. 48 species here today with Mallard, American Blackduck, and Bald Eagle all MIA.

 

Late in the afternoon at Capisic Pond in Portland, above the Tree Swallows, were a handful of twittering Chimney Swifts.

 

Bird haahd,

Noah Gibb-Portland