[Maine-birds] Additional Highlights this Week, 2/21-2/25

 Hi all,

Some additional sightings of note from me over the past five days included:

- 20 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS with 56 Cedar Waxwings, Terison's Orchard, Whitney Road, Cumberland, 2/21 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).

- 1 drake Barrow's Goldeneye continues, Eastern Promenade, Portland, 2/22 (with York County Audubon Gull Workshop group).

- 1 THICK-BILLED MURRE, Old Port, Portland, 2/22 (with York County Audubon Gull Workshop group). Photo at: http://www.facebook.com/Freeportwildbird/photos/a.977418758954745.1073741840.198877036808925/1009808742382413/?type=1&theater

- 13-18 Iceland Gulls (10-15 1st-winter, 1 2nd-winter, 2 adult) and 2 Glaucous Gulls (1 1st-winter, 1 adult), Old Port, Portland, 2/22 (with York County Audubon Gull Workshop group).

- 2 SNOWY OWLS, Biddeford Pool, Biddeford, 2/22 (with Phil McCormack).

~100 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS, circling around the store, 2/25 (spotted by Dan Nickerson).

- 2 drake Barrow's Goldeneyes continue at Winslow Park, Freeport.

- just 5 Common Mergansers are left in the small patch of open water at Grist Mill Park in Yarmouth.

-"Winter Finch" high counts this week:

Purple Finch: 3, our yard in Pownal all week.

Common Redpoll: 1, our yard in Pownal through 2/22.

Pine Siskin: 5, our yard in Pownal all week.

American Goldfinch: 28, here at the store, 2/21.

-Derek

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Derek and Jeannette Lovitch
Freeport Wild Bird Supply
541 Route One, Suite 10
Freeport, ME 04032
207-865-6000
www.freeportwildbirdsupply.com

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