[Maine-birds] 11 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, Tuckahoe Turf Farm, Berwick, Sep 7, 2013

Seven of us walked around Tuckahoe and had great looks at the AMERICAN
GOLDEN-PLOVER. COOPERS HAWK came through chasing the plovers, and a MERLIN
sat on the ground after chasing the plovers. The bird that ate the plover
did not leave much meat on the bones for anything else.


Tuckahoe Turf Farm, Berwick, York, US-ME
Sep 7, 2013 7:12 AM - 11:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
Comments: clear, NW wind to W wind up to 15 mph, some clouds
29 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose 53
Wood Duck 1
Wild Turkey 12
Great Blue Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 3
Cooper's Hawk 2
Broad-winged Hawk 2
American Golden-Plover 12 9 where seen sitting on the ground and
flying around, 2 others single birds by themselves, and one corpse,
freshly eaten, red meat on bones.
Killdeer 5
Least Sandpiper 3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Merlin 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Red-eyed Vireo 3
Blue Jay 4
American Crow 7
Common Raven 1
Barn Swallow 3
Black-capped Chickadee 2
Eastern Bluebird 1
Gray Catbird 1
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 4
Blackpoll Warbler 2
Prairie Warbler 1
warbler sp. 1
Savannah Sparrow 5
Song Sparrow 4
Bobolink 6
American Goldfinch 2

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Happy birding
Andy Aldrich

Locatin: 305 Hubbard Road, Berwick, Maine


So here goes the rules...
1) NEVER DRIVE ON TURF!!
2) NEVER PARK ON THE TURF!!
3) AS YOU DRIVE AROUND MAKE SURE YOU STAY OUT OF THEIR WAY AS THEY RUN THEIR
BUSINESS. (If you ran a business would you want people getting in your way?)
3a) Many of the roads are single lane, so make sure you can get to the other
end without meeting a worker, and of course you would have to back up if you
did.
4) YOU MAY WALK ANYWHERE YOU WISH.
5) IF A RARE BIRD IS SEEN, THAN THAT PERSON REPORTING IT, MUST MAKE IT CLEAR
THAT CROWDS OF PEOPLE MUST PARK ON RIDLON ROAD. Because lots of cars and
obsessive-compulsive birders would jam up the whole place. Ridlon Rd. is on
the east side of the farm. Also do not park in front of any of the gates as
they own land on both sides of the road.
I usually come in about .2 of a mile and turn right on a dirt road,
and that takes you a place where you can go right or left, and there are
high weeds and places to park. If they are in that area than I go in to the
corner about .4 and park in an area on that corner.
Also there are lots of butterflies in the 20 to 30 acres of weeds patches.
The weekend is the better time to bird the place because you have the place
to yourselves, during the week the workers are scattering the birds all over
the place.
After lots of rain the roads to the north end are very muddy and deep, you
do not want to get stuck.




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