[Maine-birds] Additional Highlights this week, 3/21-27

Hi all,

Additional highlights for me over the past seven days included:

- 8 Dunlin, Winslow Park, Freeport, 3/21 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).

- 2 Killdeer (FOY), 1 Northern Harrier (FOY), 2 Northern Pintails, and 8 Sanderlings, Reid State Park, Georgetown, 3/24 (with Evan Obercian and Andrew Wolfgang).

- 1 1st w Iceland Gull, Bath waterfront, 3/24 (with Andrew Wolfgang).

- 1 hen Wood Duck (early; locally wintered?), New Meadows River at Bath-Brunswick Rd, 3/24 (with Andrew Wolfgang).

- 21 Common Grackles (FOY), Capisic Pond Park, Portland, 3/26.

- 3 SNOWY OWLS, Biddeford Pool area, 3/27.

- 12 Razorbills and 3 Green-winged Teal, East Point, Biddeford Pool, 3/27.

- 1 Black-bellied Plover (FOY), 1 Savannah Sparrow (FOS), 1 Greater Scaup, and 4 Green-winged Teal, The Pool, Biddeford Pool, 3/27.

- 1 Merlin and 1 Great Blue Heron (FOY), but no Gyrfalcon, Wells Harbor, 3/27.

- 2 Common Redpolls continue at our feeders in Pownal.

- Other migrants noted widely this week:

Canada Goose

American Black Duck

Mallard

American Tree Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

Red-winged Blackbird

Pine Siskin

Photos: 

1) My lousy phone-scoped photo of the Surfbird from 3/22:

https://www.facebook.com/Freeportwildbird/photos/a.977418758954745.1073741840.198877036808925/1026776770685610/?type=1&theater

2) Jeannette's anything-but-lousy photos of the Gyrfalcon from 3/24 (click left or right for additional images):

https://www.flickr.com/photos/freeportwildbird/16927930545/in/set-72157625893018447

-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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