Hello ,
I wanted to add to Dereks Omega Block weather comments by saying that here on Mount Desert Island and the coastal shorelines we were receiving easterly winds gradually shifting to a steady South-westerly on the backside of the Omega Block. That southeasterly on shore breeze was perfect for birds moving behind the Block... There were small flocks of birds at the southern edge MDI who were vocalizing as they foraged past moving in a northerly direction.
I am finding territorial Blue-headed Vireo, Hermit Thrush and Winter Wren in Town Hill. (and a few other birds of course. Think I have located another Broad-wing Hawk nest)
If anyone else has mixed flock sightings and was birding the Down East coast, Addison, Machias etc., it would be interesting to see data from that 12 day period. I know Norm has been out and perhaps I missed other records. There certainly were rich mixtures of birds now and then through this period.
Michael
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 10:03 AM
To: Maine-birds
Subject: [Maine-birds] This Week's Highlights and New Arrivals, 5/4-10
Hi all,
Just a few observations of note from me in the past seven days included:
- 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Florida Lake Park, Freeport, 5/6 (with clients). My second of the season here (3rd all-time).
- 6-8+ (!) Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, Fort Foster, Kittery, 5/7. Although a pair has bred here for at least the last few years, there were at least three, but I believe 4, and perhaps as many as 5 pairs of birds active here today.
- 14 Purple Sandpipers, Seapoint Beach, Kittery, 5/7.
- 13 species of warblers (my first single-site double-digit tally of the year), led by 60+ Yellow-rumps and 7 Common Yellowthroats, Florida Lake Park, Freeport, 5/10 (with Katrina Fenton). Zane Baker added a Magnolia Warbler and Dan Nickerson added 1 American Redstart to the collective tally.
And my personal "FOY's" this week - greatly reduced by an "Omega Block" that kept a high pressure system locked in place overhead and a series of storms to our south, limiting the flow of migrants for the past 12 days (until last night!)- included:
- Sora: 1, Great Salt Bay Farm, Damariscotta, 5/5 (with Kristen Lindquist).
- Nashville Warbler: 1, Florida Lake Park, 5/6 (with clients).
- Least Flycatcher: 2, Capisic Pond Park, Portland, 5/6 (with clients).
- Warbling Vireo: 2, Capisic Pond Park, 5/6 (with clients).
- Marsh Wren: 1, Pelreco marsh, Scarborough Marsh, 5/6 (with clients).
- Gray Catbird: 1 (first of spring), Fort Foster, 5/7.
- Blackburnian Warbler: 1, Bradbury Mountain Hawkwatch, 5/7.
- Chestnut-sided Warbler: 1, Florida Lake Park, 5/10 (with Katrina Fenton).
- Solitary Sandpiper: 2, Florida Lake Park, 5/10 (with Katrina Fenton).
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak: 1, Florida Lake Park, 5/10 (with Katrina Fenton).
- Blackpoll Warbler: 1, Florida Lake Park, 5/10 (with Katrina Fenton).
- Eastern Kingbird: 1, Florida Lake Park, 5/10 (with Katrina Fenton).
Here are my phone-scoped photos of the Northern Lapwing from Poland on Monday evening:
-Derek
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Freeport Wild Bird Supply
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Jeannette and Derek Lovitch
Freeport Wild Bird Supply
541 Route One, Suite 10
Freeport, ME 04032
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www.freeportwildbirdsupply.com
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