[Maine-birds] Fun with Gray Jays

This time of year can be lots of fun just driving around the Maine woods.
Four of us spent the day on the roads between Rockwood and Seboomook, west
of Moosehead. As expected, finches remain few, though we did have three
Pine Grosbeaks in the road. The highlights of the day were the
particularly friendly Gray Jays. We tallied ten without trying. One family
of four came right in to investigate us. One pair rushed in as soon as
they heard a car approaching, and demanded food. I posted the jays to
http://www.facebook.com/MaineBirdingTrail.

Bob Duchesne

> Hello All,
>
> Sabattus Pond had more or less the same birds that Derek posted on his
> site
> a couple days ago: 600ish Ruddy Ducks, 300+ Common Merg, est. 150-200
> Scaup of both flavors, Buffleheads and Hoodies in good number, 9 coots. 3
> Bald Eagles were shuffling the birds around. One Loon and a few Mallard
> and Blacks.
>
> Lake Auburn had only 2 Horned Grebes and 65 Canada Geese.
>
> Two Wood Duck from the Durham Boat Launch on the Androscoggin River.
>
> Most notable were 3 groups of Ring-billed Ducks each 100 to 225 each in
> fields following yesterdays rains. Five Great Black-backed Gulls at the
> falls in L/A were probably storm related. A block on feeding the ducks
> has
> dropped the number there from 200+ to about a dozen.
>
> And a Peregrine Falcon on the steeple of the Franco-American Center in
> Lewiston.
>
> Dan Nickerson
> Freeport ME
>
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