Wednesday, 3 April 2013

Re: [Maine-birds] Digest for maine-birds@googlegroups.com - 13 Messages in 13 Topics

FOY Greater Yellowlegs Dunstan side of P Pt Rd just beyond Nature Center.Gadwalls and 5 Barrows GE . 
Was within 15 ft of YL.definitely slightly upturned bill
Ron Cedrone

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On Apr 2, 2013, at 6:05 PM, maine-birds@googlegroups.com wrote:

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    Trevor B Persons <Trevor.Persons@nau.edu> Apr 02 08:57PM  

    This afternoon I saw six SNOW GEESE amongst ca. 100 Canada Geese in the field at the northeast corner of Old River Rd and McNeil Road in Fryeburg.
     
    Trevor
     
     
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    Trevor Persons, Herpetology
    USGS Southwest Biological Science Center
    Colorado Plateau Research Station, Flagstaff, AZ
     
    CURRENT ADDRESS:
     
    Trevor Persons
    206 Bigelow Hill Road
    Norridgewock, Maine 04957
    (207) 634-2280

     

    Jeff Wells <jeffwells@borealbirds.org> Apr 02 04:24PM  

    Anyone have an eastern Fox Sparrow photo that Allison and I could use free-of-charge to illustrate a Boothbay Register column?
     
    Jeff Wells

     

    azwickfish <azwickfish@gmail.com> Apr 02 11:00AM -0400  

    My pair of nesting blue birds are back and inspecting their house.
     
     
    Sent from my U.S. Cellular© Smartphone

     

    Sally P <pachulski@gmail.com> Apr 02 07:19AM -0700  

    Sighted again this morning at the same spot on North Raymond Road across
    from Mailman Road.

     

    "Andrew Aldrich" <aaldrich1@maine.rr.com> Apr 02 09:05AM -0400  

    spent 2 hours, got a farely good digiscoped picture of cedar wing. : posted
    to Maine bird list http://www.flickr.com/groups/mainebirdlist/
    Later in the day my wife and I went for a walk at Tuckahoe Turf Farm and got
    into a rain and hail storm, with gale force winds. One CROW and 61 CANADA
    GEESE.
     
     
    Mt. Agamenticus, York, US-ME
    Apr 1, 2013 10:40 AM - 12:40 AM
    Protocol: Stationary
    Comments: West wind, partly cloudy
    17 species (+2 other taxa)
     
    duck sp. 9 too far away to see what kind of ducks they were
    Great Blue Heron 3
    Turkey Vulture 12
    Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
    Bald Eagle 1 4th year bird
    Red-shouldered Hawk 2
    Red-tailed Hawk 6
    Buteo sp. 2
    Common Raven 3
    Black-capped Chickadee 2
    Eastern Bluebird 2
    American Robin 8
    European Starling 3
    Cedar Waxwing 9
    American Tree Sparrow 1
    Song Sparrow 1
    Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 3
    Red-winged Blackbird 200
    Common Grackle 160
     
    View this checklist online at
    http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S13604963
     
    This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org/me)
     
    Happy birding
    Andy Aldrich
    North Berwick

     

    Mike Fahay <mfahay@gmail.com> Apr 02 08:21AM -0400  

    - Large flock of Horned Larks frequenting Popp's Farm at the end of
    Glasheen Rd.
    - Am Kestrel hunting around the edges of the middle level field at Green
    Point WMA
    - 1 Am Tree Sparrow and several singing Song Sparrows at Green Pt.
    - 2 early Chipping Sparrows in small mixed flock near Gorenson's
    greenhouses.
    - a Gray Ghost flew right by me, without noticing I wasn't a tree
    - another Kestrel at Hawkes Farm Rd
    - 2 Killdeers at the Buffalo Ranch, soon to be renamed the BlackAngus Ranch
     
    - And sorted thru many grackle-blackbird-cowbird flocks, still w/o seeing a
    Rusty BB.

     

    Noah Gibb <voodoochitlins@yahoo.com> Apr 01 08:00PM -0700  

    I went out to check various spots of the Scarborough Marsh this afternoon after work and saw my FOY Snowy Egret at Dunstan Landing and 11 Gadwall behind Perelco.
     
     As sundown approached, I searched the Industrial park off Rte 1 just north of the marsh in hopes of large blackbird flocks gathering there. This weekend had lots of blackbirds on the move so it seemed like a good time to check ( almost a month behind when I witnessed this last year). As I took my first righthand turn to head towards the Gervais property across from DMM, I estimated 2000-3000 blackbirds and growing lining the trees. Grackles led the way, followed by Red-Wingeds including many females, and smaller amounts of Cowbirds and Starlings. And no, I couldn't come up with a Brewers!
     
     When I was about to leave the industrial park, approaching a traffic light at Rte 1 with Tim Horton's on my right and the Irving across the street, a seemingly endless swarm of blackbirds made their way from behind the Irving and towards the flock that I just left. I sat at the light for about one minute while the somewhat dense to extremely dense flock continued to flow overhead. I can't claim to feel confident in quickly estimating thousands of birds accurately and don't want to throw any crazy number out there, but conservatively, there had to have been at least 3000 more birds that flew over. I took many photos with a wide angle lens of the perched birds by DMM and when I have time, I will try to get an accurate count of what was there.
     
    Bird haahd,
    Noah Gibb-Portland

     

    Nancy Houlihan <nhoulihan1@gmail.com> Apr 01 08:05PM -0400  

    Great Egret on the grounds of the retreat center near the clothes line
    Phoebe on rte 9 near intersection with Maddox Pond Road,
    Won't tell exactly how I hung the U turn to get that bird's ID confirmed.

     

    Judith Marden <jmarden@bates.edu> Apr 01 03:24PM -0400  

    Went walking in my field late yesterday hoping to see woodcocks. No
    woodcocks--but a pair of Bluebirds, perching on the stakes used to mark the
    snowmobile trail. First bluebirds I've ever seen here in 37 years!
    Judy Marden

     

    Jim Bright <bright6775@gmail.com> Mar 31 07:36PM -0400  

    Four Northern Shovelers at Little Long Pond on Mt. Desert late this afternoon.
     
    Sorry to be reporting this so late, but I watched a Golden Eagle ride the thermals over Sargent Mt last Sunday as it headed north.
     
     
    Sent from Jim's iPhone

     

    songbird46@earthlink.net Mar 31 05:47PM -0400  

    2 Fox Sparrows
     
    Also a Great Egret was in the marsh on the left side of Black Point Rd just past Winnocks Neck rd 2:45 pm
     
    Nancy
    Scarborough
     
     
     
    Sent from my iPhone

     

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