[Maine-birds] HOTSPOT: Curtis Farm Preserve, Harpswell Land Trust this morning

Birded this amazing place this morning from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. with great results. I didn't want to leave!

HIGHLIGHTS:

Warblers--the trees at the back of the big field (to your right as you park) were alive with them:

Black-and-White

Black-throated Green
Tennessee (FOY)

Yellow

Yellow-rumped

Magnolia
Bay-breasted (FOY)
Chestnut-sided (FOY)

Black-throated Blue

Nashville (FOY)

Northern Parula

Blackburnian (FOY)

American Redstart

Empid sp--he wouldn't vocalize, but he wasn't a phoebe

Scarlet Tanagers, both a molty male and a beautiful female

Indigo Buntings--several, including a pair chasing each other around

Red-eyed Vireo

Blue-headed Vireo

Veery (FOY and very vocal)

Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush

Bobolink

Eastern Kingbird (five at one time)

Eastern Bluebird (including a female at a nest box near the parking lot)

Tree Swallow

Gray Catbird

Orchard Oriole (FOY)

Red-bellied Woodpecker (heard)

Belted Kingfisher (of all things)

Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
and the usual crows, titmice, chickadees, and such

What an incredible place. The sun broke through the clouds around 9ish, and the bugs started getting active, and that's when all the birds just went nuts.

I also went down to Estes Lobster House parking area, where I saw

Black-bellied Plover

Semipalmated Sandpiper
Common Tern

Common Eider

Ruby-throated Hummingbird (FOY fly-by)

the usual gulls

I had almost 60 species before noon--probably my best morning ever (outside of a birding festival!).

Delia in Brunswick

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