Saw my FOY Turkey Vultures off the summit of Mt Agamenticus yesterday 3/15/14 about 5:30pm, five of them on the NW side. Saw one hawk coming in like a bullet from the SW, into setting sun, circle around backside of mountain then head East. Saw only the orange/rufus breast for color and no bars on the tail as the backlight diminished. Need help with IDs that high up.
-- Snowy Owl continues at Nubble Light and rooftops in the area, 3/8, 3/11, 3/13 sightings with the one on 3/11 certainly a different owl because it was much whiter - confirmed by other York birder. Photo'd Snowy Owl in Wells, 3/10 as well, (461 Ocean Ave). My photos are Public on my Facebook page - see Albums: Birding 2014, Danie's Camera (Eagles), Sony HX300 Trials. I'm not on Flickr yet. My winter ducks and Snowy Owls are there including the Dovekie in Oarweed Cove, Ogunquit.
Photos of the Adult Bald Eagle and Juvie in York on my FB page, as well. I saw the immature perched on a telephone pole opposite Western Point Rd York Harbor on 3/8; then both playing in high winds over the harbor 3/9; on 3/11 I was in the presence of the adult for almost two hours looking across the York River from Hancock Wharf where we were treated to vocalizations, crows trying to move the adult, and three C Loons vocalized from below in the river when the juvie joined the parent before they both flew up river; 3/12 I found the Adult in the same stand of oaks in the pouring rain before it circled and swooped - thought it was going to grab prey from the river - but then wheeled upriver as the gulls made a loud fuss; 3/15 I was chatting with my daughter outside of Hannaford's in York when we clearly saw the Adult Bald fly right over our heads, then we spotted a second high flyer nearby that could've been the juvie. Those photos were point-blindly-and-shoot then blown up on computer. Saw two Redtailed Hawks fly over as well -wondered if they were the ones I photo'd off the turnpike before the York exit twenty minutes earlier. Also saw Redtail off the rest area off the tpike and got good photos. On 3/8 we watched a Redtail eating a very large pigeon in the oaks and pines behind the wharf on the south side of Sewall's Bridge opposite the Elizabeth Perkins house - (The Redtails are coming, the Redtails are coming) - though a Cooper's was hunting Bluebirds and Starlings at the Perkins house on 3/11.
Today brought back Goldfinches to my yard. Regulars have been Bluejays, Cardinals, Crows, M Doves, RB and WB Nuthatches, Tufted Titmice, Red-bellied WP, Downy & Hairy WPs, Chickadees, DE juncos, Robins pass thru, Wild Turkeys, (a Sharpie on 2/18 who got a Junco on the ground and discombobulated it in the Blue Spruce on my lawn in pouring snow).
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