Mark Mahnke found a shrike at Green Point WMA in Dresden. Mark reported the bird in the SW corner of the field north of the lower orchard. Park at the southern parking lot on Rt 128 and take the gravel road through the upper orchard (two jogs), down the hill on the gravel road past the waterway to your right. When that road veers left at the pond, go to the right instead on a grassy two lane path that's been well travelled by pickup trucks recently (keeping the pond on your left). That two wheeled lane will take you to the southwestern corner of the large field.
It is still 2 weeks before the earliest Northern Shrikes show up in Maine and a recent pattern has developed of mid-late September into October records of Loggerhead Shrikes in the Northeast. In fact, one was photographed in New Brunswick recently by Durlan Ingersoll. Another Loggerhead Shrike was found today in Delaware. I think it is likely that the bird at Green Point was a Loggerhead Shrike. I last saw one in the state when visiting Machias early June during the early 1990s. Loggerhead Shrike formerly nested in Maine until a severe decline struck eastern populations starting in the late 1970. If one looks in the early editions of Peterson's field guide to the east, he cautions to check every Loggerhead Shrike for the rare Mockingbird which then was advancing north. Times they are a changin'.
Louis Bevier
Fairfield
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