Re: [Maine-birds] Biddeford area birds (Cackling Goose)

In reference to your paranoid neighbor (and his charming language), I heard this guy interviewed on public radio a couple of days ago:

http://wildandincolor.blogspot.com/2011/10/birding-while-black-does-it-really.html

You should maybe invite him to come see your Fox Sparrows.  I'm sure your neighbor would love to meet him.

On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:22 PM, David Rankin <darkfirefalcon@gmail.com> wrote:

It being November yet still pleasant enough to consider venturing outside without 8 layers of clothing, I took to the field today in search of lingering and vagrant insectivores. Thoughts of wandering hirundinidae and tyrannus flycatchers propelled me onward, but the birds themselves remained elusive. Not all was in vain, as I did manage a few good birds:

Biddeford Pool hosted a flock of Horned Larks and Snow Buntings and a few American Tree Sparrows, but little else.

My street in Arundel hosted a few Fox Sparrows (one which earned me the ire of a paranoid neighbor, who kindly instructed me in a loud voice to "get the f*** out of here" and stop looking at his yard), a late Eastern Phoebe, Common Yellowthroat, Yellow Palm Warbler and Eastern Towhee.

The jetty at the end of Well's Harbor hosted a flock of Purple Sandpipers, Dunlin, Sanderlings and Black-bellied Plovers. The Well's Reserve had a single Belted Kingfisher, and a statistically significant number of Eastern Bluebirds (or so says ebird) but not much else of interest. 

Parson's Beach revealed a large flock of Black Scoters offshore, as well as a Common Goldeneye and a Common merganser, unusual to see in the ocean. A few Great Blue Herons lingered in the marsh nearby.

And finally, at Lord's Point in Kennebunk, a flock of Canada Geese loafing in the ocean at sunset today contained a CACKLING GOOSE.

Good Birding

David Rankin

Biddeford

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