Two nights ago a good flight took place throughout the state. Last night, I watched a light flight visible on radar in southern Maine, but basically nothing moving from Aroostook county. This made me think that many of the migratory songbirds that arrived yesterday were leaving southern Maine with little replacement. I think I chewed a couple of fingernails off worrying about how few birds there would be on my first official solo birding tour. Long story short, if it is not too late, things were quiet, but there were a couple of nice waves of migrants and we ended up with 43 species.
The biggest highlight had to be stumbling upon a juvenile Broad-Winged Hawk perched 30 feet away about 15 feet up in a birch. It took me a good 30 seconds of scanning low for thrushes before I even noticed that there was a hawk right in front of us! The road near the junk pond was very active when we finally arrived with plenty of Redstarts, a Northern Parula, Nashville Warbler, and a Carolina Wren adding the soundtrack. Throw in some beautiful weather and you have yourself a very pleasant morning of birding. I would like to thank the birds that did decide to show up and that does not include Bill's American Bittern, Julie's Green Heron, or the several fast moving buggers that escaped Id's. The full list via Ebird is below.
Bird haahd,
Noah Gibb-Portland
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