[Maine-birds] Chuck-wills-widow in Cutler

Hi Folks,

 

While working in Cutler yesterday, I heard a chuck-wills-widow vocalize three times in late morning.  The calls came from a forested larch-spruce-gray birch stand.  This is the second year in a row that I heard Chuck-wills-widows in Washington County. 

 

On July 13, 2012 I digitally recording one vocalizing from a bog in Indian Township using a directional microphone.  Otherwise, it was too far away to pick up by ear.  Last years bird gave several quick calls and was quiet the rest of the time (very odd in that I could hear a gray jay, palm warblers, blue-headed vireo, Lincoln's sparrow etc.).  It was strictly luck in that I was recording a point count next to the bog when it vocalized.

 

Other singing birds yesterday

 

5 Wilson's warbler

2 Yellow warbler

3 Chestnut-sided warbler

2 Palm warbler

4 Yellow-rumped warbler

1 Northern parula

8 Common yellowthroat

5 Am redstart

3 Black-throated green warbler

3 Magnolia warbler

1 Black-and-while warbler

1 Bay-breasted warbler

1 Blackpoll warbler

5 Blue-headed vireo

1 Red-eyed vireo

1 Gray jay

2 Common raven

8 Am crow

4 Osprey (three nests)

2 Swamp sparrow

4 White-throated sparrow

9 Savannah sparrow (singing)

15 Savannah sparrow (flushed)

4 Savannah sparrow nests

4 Song sparrow

6 Alder flycatcher

1 Yellow-bellied flycatcher

1 Willow flycatcher

1 Gray catbird

6 Hermit thrush (singing)

4 Hermit thrush (call notes)

1 Veery (call note)

8 Am robin plus another five or six observed

3 Rock pigeons

6 Starlings

2 Red-winged blackbirds

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Norman Famous, Wetlands and Wildlife Ecologist

513 Eight Rod Road

Augusta, ME 04330

(207) 623 6072

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