Thursday, 9 January 2014

Re: [Maine-birds] Digest for maine-birds@googlegroups.com - 19 Messages in 14 Topics

Twice! And snow buntings!

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On 2014-01-09, at 3:42 PM, maine-birds@googlegroups.com wrote:

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    sarah Caputo <catbird338@hotmail.com> Jan 09 07:50PM  

    Still Snowy in grass in pasture before old Holmes Farm on Perkins rd @ noontime today - slightly fuzzy pics to follow later!
    Also small flock of Snow buntings foraging in gravel at edge of rd.

    Belfast Harbor - 3 buffleheads and 1 common loon , did not sort thru the gulls in the bitter wind today.

    Sarah

     

    Noah Gibb <voodoochitlins@yahoo.com> Jan 09 11:44AM -0800  

    I have been checking Riverbank Park in Westbrook practically every weekday on my lunch breaks over the last month or better and had only come up with a one day wonder 1st cycle Glaucous Gull as far as white-wingeds up until today.
     
    Today the famous Mystery Gull (possible Iceland Gull subspecies Glaucoides)  in adult plumage has returned for the 3rd or 4th? year and looking very dapper as usual.
     
    Bird haahd,
    Noah Gibb-Portland

     

    Chris Bartlett <christophabartlett@gmail.com> Jan 09 09:00AM -0800  

    My family and I were traveling for the past two days, so I was pleasantly
    surprised to see the Lapland longspur return to our feeders this morning.
    We first spotted this bird during the deep freeze on Jan. 3.
     
    Here's a photo from today:
     
    http://flic.kr/p/j4K8gu
     
    Cheers,
     
    Chris

     

    Mike Fahay <mfahay@gmail.com> Jan 09 08:11AM -0500  

    I was one of those able to spend some time with the No. Hawk Owl yesterday
    in Lincoln. First encountered at the top of a tall, scraggly white pine
    tree at the intersection of Rt 2 and Penobscot Valley Av at a little after
    Noon. First alerted to it by the dive-bombing of two crows.
     
    Then on a wire over the RR Tracks where they cross P.V. Av. where it
    remained until I left at 1:10.
     
    Thanks again to Carl for keeping us all posted on the wanderings of this
    terrific bird.

     

    Craig Kesselheim <ckesselheim@gmail.com> Jan 09 07:10AM -0500  

    As reported last night by Seth Benz, n side pasture off of Perkins Rd., Belfast. Along with Snowy, one Rough-legged Hawk.
    Thanks Seth!
     
    Craig K
     
    Sent from my iPhone

     

    Mike Fahay <mfahay@gmail.com> Jan 08 05:42PM -0500  

    Eduardo;
    Lots of us would be interested in where and when in Phippsburg you found
    this Northern Hawk Owl. Are you sure it wasn't in Bristol?
     
     
    thanks
    mike
     
     
     
    On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Eduardo del Solar <delsolar@bellatlantic.net

     

    Eduardo del Solar <delsolar@bellatlantic.net> Jan 09 03:25AM -0800  

    Ooops, another senior moment, the presentation was in Augusta for a local
    photography dealing with birds in Galapagos.
     
    On Wednesday, January 8, 2014 11:15:00 PM UTC-5, Eduardo del Solar wrote:

     

    Eduardo del Solar <delsolar@bellatlantic.net> Jan 09 03:30AM -0800  

    Ooops, another senior moment! The presentation was in Augusta (Feb.18),
    not Phippsburg, dealing with photos of birds and reptiles from my trip to
    Galapagos.
     
    On Wednesday, January 8, 2014 11:15:00 PM UTC-5, Eduardo del Solar wrote:

     

    Eduardo del Solar <delsolar@bellatlantic.net> Jan 09 03:51AM -0800  

    A birder from this list has asked me if I could do an exhibit closer to his
    home, namely the Falmouth Audubon sanctuary. I do not recall visiting this
    sanctuary so I do not know if they have enough gallery space to hold about
    20 - 25 framed prints (18 x 24) of birds. Any information you may provide
    on this sanctuary, or another close by is appreciated. I was overwhelmed
    in my 2009 Augusta Galapagos presentation thinking I was the only nut
    interested in bird photography...till I saw how many other "nuts" went out
    on a frigid February night just to see bird photographs. Having been born
    and raised below the equatorial line, that blew my socks away and stays
    fresh in my mind 5 years later! :-)
     
    Eduardo

     

    "Andrew Aldrich" <aaldrich1@maine.rr.com> Jan 08 06:56PM -0500  

    A very early RED-SHOULDERED HAWK was seen today, or it stayed over to enjoy
    the cold and snow here in Maine instead of nice weather in Fla.
     
     
     
     
     
    Berwick, York, US-ME
    Jan 8, 2014 11:55 AM
    Protocol: Incidental
    Comments: In Berwick, Rt. 9/ Sidney Drive
    2 species
     
    Red-shouldered Hawk 1 As I was driving on Rt. 9 in Berwick, I noticed
    a hawk with a dark back fly from the side of road into the trees. I parked
    at the end of Sidney Dr. and walked along the road. It was a clear sunny
    day, and with the sun behind me I saw a buteo fly from the tree line. It
    banked and I saw the white and black tail bands and dark back. As it circled
    I saw the same white and black tail bands and the bright red shoulders,
    belly, throat. Than a Red-tailed Hawk came into the same bino view. It was
    great comparison of the shape of the two birds. The Red-shouldered had
    narrower and shorter wings and slightly smaller. The Red-tailed had a nice
    red tail.
     
    View this checklist online at
    http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S16296642
     
    This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org/me)
     
    Happy birding
    Andy Aldrich
    North Berwick

     

    Raven Watcher <ravenwatcher@gmail.com> Jan 08 06:16PM -0500  

    Hello All,
     
    Used my monthly river survey as an excuse to search for Snowy Owls in
    Andrsocggin County.
     
    Found one off King Road. Sabattus opposite Mockingbird Lane. I wonder if
    it was the same SNOW seen on the LA CBC.
     
    From Auburn River Walk three adult Bald Eagles were seen two with carcasses
    of duck or gull sized birds. A Peregrine Falcon was observed harrassing
    Rock Pigeons in Lewiston.
     
    The Sabattus River in downtown Sabattus had three Hooded Mergansers and one
    Common Merganser along with usual Mallards.
     
    The Little Andy Park off Second Street in Auburn was a good location to
    view approximately 28 Common Goldeneyes.
     
    Snow Buntings were seen on Pearl Street in Turner (5) and in the large
    agricultural field along route 136 and the Androscoggin river (105) about a
    mile north of downtown Durham.
     
    On Sunday morning observed a Northern Goshawk on Bowie Hill Road in Durham.
     
    Good birding,
     
    Dan Nickerson
    Freeport

     

    Don and Sherry Reimer <sherreal@hotmail.com> Jan 08 10:33PM  

    Of the 4 snowys I have seen thus far this winter, this bird was the whitest and brightest individual. It flew past me at about 100 yards distance. Also a wolly bear caterpillar balled in the snow near the top of the hill.
    Don

     

    seth benz <stbenz22@gmail.com> Jan 08 05:31PM -0500  

    A call from a friend at 4:50 PM alerted me to a snowy owl on the Perkins Rd.
    The bird, a first year female?, was on top of a telephone pole looking like it would spend the night (?).
    The Perkins Rd is at the south end of Belfast, the road the Matthews Bros. plant is on.
    Turning onto Perkins off Rt. 1, the bird was atop the only pole on the left hand side of the road at a lane into a new house (well down Perkins but shy of the farmhouse on the right).

     

    Kenneth Janes <janes.ken@gmail.com> Jan 08 05:20PM -0500  

    It was so cold I was shivering but managed to hold the camera steady enough for a shot of the Bath landfill Golden today about 1:15 PM. This was a high altitude fly-over but I was tipped off that something was up when every one of the hundreds of gulls disappeared in a flash.
     
    Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenjanes/11844012454/
     
    Ken Janes
     
    Kennebunk Beach

     

    John Wyatt & Debbie Ryan <birdsnbeads@roadrunner.com> Jan 08 04:22PM -0500  

    Found the Lincoln Northern Hawk Owl perched atop pine trees at the NW corner of the intersection of Penobscot Valley Ave. (HWY116) and HWY 2 this morning at 8:25. Met a nice couple from Mass. already there watching the owl when I arrived and it was still present in the trees when I left.
     
    Good Birding,
    John

     

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