RE: [Maine-birds] Digest for maine-birds@googlegroups.com - 7 Messages in 7 Topics

Hi 
 
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Mike Little
 

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Subject: [Maine-birds] Digest for maine-birds@googlegroups.com - 7 Messages in 7 Topics
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 20:38:13 +0000

  Today's Topic Summary

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• Pileated Woodpecker [1 Update]
• Flickers, Rockport [1 Update]
• Maine RBA - November 8, 2013 [1 Update]
• Frenchman Bay area [1 Update]
• Snow Bunting [1 Update]
• Additional Highlights This Week and Goose Fields Update, 11/2-8 [1 Update]
• Russ Greenberg, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center director, dies [1 Update]

 Pileated Woodpecker

Carl Small <triton469@yahoo.com> Nov 09 03:28PM -0500  

While watching a Pileated Woodpecker this morning at my favorite hunting ground in Rockport, I realized I was being watched buy a buck . Buy the time I let go of Bins and raised the gun the woodpecker flew of in same direction of running deer. Hard to be a bird watcher and a hunter at same time.
Skip Small
Rockport
 
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 Flickers, Rockport

Kristen Lindquist <kelindquist@gmail.com> Nov 09 02:48PM -0500  

At least 4 N. Flickers lingering on Beech Hill in Rockport today.
 
Kristen
 
Kristen Lindquist
Camden, ME
www.klindquist.blogspot.com
 

 Maine RBA - November 8, 2013

Doug Hitchcox <dhitchcox@mac.com> Nov 09 07:36PM  

Name: Maine Audubon Rare Bird Alert
Reporting Period: November 2 – 8, 2013
Area: State of Maine
Compilers: Doug Hitchcox
 
Noteworthy Species Mentioned:
Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Cackling Goose
Barnacle Goose+
Eastern Screech-Owl+
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
'Audubon's' Yellow-rumped Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Clay-colored Sparrow
 
(+ Details requested by Maine Bird Records Committee: https://sites.google.com/site/mainebirdrecordscommittee/)
 
York County
 
The 'AUDUBON'S' YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER continued to be seen at Fort Foster in Kittery as of the 3rd. A late PRAIRIE WARBLER was also seen here on the 3rd.
 
Continuing from October 28th, a young GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE continued along Blackberry Hill Road in Berwick through the week.
 
On the 5th, a SNOW GOOSE was found at Rockin' Horse Stables on Arundel Road in Kennebunkport. This bird was still being seen here on the 7th. 
 
A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was found at Timber Point, off Granite Point Road in Biddeford, on the 3rd.
 
The Saco Yacht Club at the end of Front Street in Saco hosted an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER and a NASHVILLE WARBLER on the 2nd.
 
Greater Portland
 
The adult GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE that had been seen around Smiling Hill Farm in Westbrook last week has relocated with a SNOW GOOSE to the Willowdale Golf Course in Scarborough. The bird is often seen on the course's fields or pond, which is best viewed from the Eastern Trail.
 
An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen along the Eastern Promenade in Portland on the 3rd.
 
On the 8th, an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was photographed along Sawyer Road in South Portland.
 
Midcoast
 
A late EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE was photographed at Bailey Island in Harpswell on the 2nd.
 
On the evening of the 4th, an EASTERN SCREECH-OWL was reported calling from the Quaker Point area in West Bath.
 
Northern Maine
 
On the 6th, a CACKLING GOOSE was with 300+ CANADA GEESE across the road from the Christina Reservoir in Fort Fairfield.
 
A GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was found along Foxhill Road in Portage on the 6th and continued through the end of the week.
 
A late report was received of a BARNACLE GOOSE photographed on October 29th in Limestone.
 

 Frenchman Bay area

<wtownsend@roadrunner.com> Nov 09 12:57PM -0500  

11/7/13 Final day on the water. Transit from Bar Harbor to Southwest Harbor to the Hinckley boatyard to lay up for the winter.
SE winds, 5-6 ft. seas made detailed observations difficult.
Common Loon 25+
Red-thr Loon 2
Red-necked Grebe 4
Gannet 10+ a few in sight all the time
Double-crested Cormorant still fairly common
Great Cormorant several along Acadia NP shoreline
Common Eider 100+ many more adult males. Continuous flock movement in wind made counts difficult
Long-tailed Duck 100+ Nearly all in the more protected harbor waters
Black Scoter 18
White-winged Scoter 25 All in Bar Harbor
Surf Scoter 4 off Otter Pt. in Acadia NP
Kittiwake 2 right at the mouth of Northeast Harbor.
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 Snow Bunting

Linda Powell <lindaleehunter@hotmail.com> Nov 09 01:41PM  

Hi,
 
My husband and I went up to the Skowhegan landfill yesterday afternoon and there were about 50 Snow Bunting in the weeds feeding at the bottom of the capped landfill.
 
Linda Powell
Skowhegan
 

 Additional Highlights This Week and Goose Fields Update, 11/2-8

Derek and Jeannette Lovitch <freeportwildbird@yahoo.com> Nov 08 02:07PM -0800  

Hi all,
 
A few additional observations of note from me in the past seven days included:
- 7 Greater Yellowlegs, Wolfe's Neck Farm, Freeport, 11/2 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).
- 3 American Tree Sparrows (first of fall), Florida Lake Park, Freeport, 11/4.
- 1 Black-bellied Plover, 2 "Ipswich" Savannah Sparrows, 1 pair American Wigeon, 1 Pectoral Sandpiper, 5 Snow Buntings, and 1 Pine Siskin (my first of the fall!), Reid State Park, Georgetown, 11/5 (with Jeannette).
- 1 female Black Scoter, 1 female Surf Scoter, 8 Lesser Scaup, etc, Lake Auburn, Auburn, 11/7.
- 2 Rusty Blackbirds, Capisic Pond Park, Portland, 11/7.
- scattered Hermit Thrushes continue in and around Portland, including the center of downtown, through 11/8, likely remnants of Sunday morning's fallout documented by the Rarity Roundup.
- 1 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, Sawyer Road, South Portland, 11/8 (photos).
- 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Trout Brook Preserve, South Portland, 11/8.
- large southbound flocks of Common Grackles and Red-winged Blackbirds, with significantly smaller numbers of Brown-headed Cowbirds continued through mid-week.  80 Common Grackles and 18 Red-winged Blackbirds at our store's feeders 11/6 was one of the last large flocks that I saw this week.
 
"Greater Yarmouth Goose Fields" Update:
Still no rarities in the traditional southern Maine hotbed of wayward Anatidae, but there was a noticeable turnover this week.  Following a weekend departure, numbers were down to 400-500 birds early in the week, but steadily grew back to 606 by today. 
 
The two Pectoral Sandpipers continued along Greely Road through today, with the first bird present since 10/21!  American Pipits were scattered in the fields this week, as were Eastern Bluebirds.
 
-Derek
 

 Russ Greenberg, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center director, dies

Louis Bevier <lrbevier@colby.edu> Nov 08 04:38PM -0500  

Russ Greenberg, who was director of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center since its beginning, died two weeks ago after succumbing to pancreatic cancer. Some in the Maine birding community knew or worked with Russ, and his contributions are known to most birders even if they are not directly aware of it. For example, Russ initiated the idea of shade-grown coffee (the bird-friendly label) to promote bird conservation in the Neotropics. The plight of Rusty Blackbirds, International Migratory Bird Day, and many other projects are also known to most birders now. The American Ornithologists' Union presented Russ with the Elliott Coues Award this year, and their website summarizes Russ's background under the award description: http://www.aou.org
 
As I watched hundreds of migrant shorebirds yesterday in Scarborough Marsh, hurriedly feeding to fuel their journey, I thought of the connectivity between breeding habitats, migration stop-overs, and wintering grounds--the big picture that people like Russ helped us understand.
 
Louis Bevier
Fairfield
 

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