Maine birds And MOAC mountainbiking

Wednesday, 30 September 2015

[Maine-birds] Tree swallows

High tide plus rain at 36 Jones Creek Road Pine Point Wednesday Water was from back of the lawn to railroad line. Just a few mallards and huge swarm of tree swallows. (Thousand?) -- Maine birds mailing list maine-birds@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/maine-birds https://sites.google.com/site/birding207 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Maine birds" group. To unsubscribe...

Re: [Maine-birds] Fall migration

Bruce et al.Late to the conversation, but I thought I'd offer a land-locked perspective that, for earlier passerines, this fall migration seemed unremarkable in volume and diversity this far inland (~170 miles).My (mostly subjective) observations of the birds and birding this fall in my patches:Apparent steady change in species composition... that is, the species I saw in spots I frequented changed daily...I think birds moved...

[Maine-birds] Fall migration

Kristen and Derek certainly have good points concerning the poor birding this autumn. One can't make generalizations about bird populations based on one season in which migrants either flew over or just weren't there. Breeding birds population studies would be a better indicator. See here: https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/.That said, however, this fall was eerily reminiscent of the widespread concern for the...

[Maine-birds] CLAPPER RAIL

I finally just saw the Clapper Rail around 5:35 at Jones Creek. It ran then flew from the left side of the most distant part of the creek and went behind the adjacent island. I can not see it now.Bird haahd,Noah Gibb-PortlandSent from Yahoo Mail on Android -- Maine birds mailing list maine-birds@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/maine-birds https://sites.google.com/site/birding207 --- You received...

[Maine-birds] Re: Red-headed Woodpecker

Whereabouts in Wells?On Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 9:53:55 AM UTC-4, snowy wrote:first time seen in my yard in Wells. He stopped at the suet for about 2 minutes yesterday PM. Nancy in Wells -- Maine birds mailing list maine-birds@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/maine-birds https://sites.google.com/site/birding207 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google...

[Maine-birds] Re: 9/26-28 / Northern Oxford County / Red Crossbills

P.S.Here's Ron Pittaway's Winter Finch Forecast for '15-'16:http://jeaniron.ca/2015/forecast15.htmOn Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 9:56:41 AM UTC-4, CK Borg wrote:Folks,...while fishing the Magalloway River in northern Oxford County this past weekend I encountered small flocks of Red Crossbills daily. Spruce cone crops in this area were good and many showed signs of having been ravaged by crossbills. The...

[Maine-birds] NH

Does anyone have any favorite birding locations near Hampton Beach NH?Thanks Tammy & Rob -- Maine birds mailing list maine-birds@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/maine-birds https://sites.google.com/site/birding207 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Maine birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to...

Re: [Maine-birds] Fall Migration

Hi all,I guess I have no choice but to wade into the thread now...thanks Dave ;) But I have been meaning to get involved, although I am on the road and away from resources to cite. But this will be long enough, so here we go.First, Kristen is right, we need to separate birding and the observation of migration from what is actually happening (or not). And it's not just fallouts. The lack of westerly and especially northwesterly...

[Maine-birds] 9/26-28 / Northern Oxford County / Red Crossbills

Folks,...while fishing the Magalloway River in northern Oxford County this past weekend I encountered small flocks of Red Crossbills daily. Spruce cone crops in this area were good and many showed signs of having been ravaged by crossbills. The area is accessible through Bosebuck Mountain Camps. It's plausible that there's some White-winged Crossbills out there too.Good Birds,C.K. BorgConcord,...

[Maine-birds] Red-headed Woodpecker

first time seen in my yard in Wells. He stopped at the suet for about 2 minutes yesterday PM. Nancy in Wells -- Maine birds mailing list maine-birds@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/maine-birds https://sites.google.com/site/birding207 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Maine birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email...

[Maine-birds] Phippsburg hummers and eagle feasting

Very surprised to see a male hummer at a nectar feeder. I have had a female every morning for the past week, not always the same female, as they are passing through. Some of them are much pudgier than others. This is the first male I have seen in weeks. Also, seal carcass has washed up on the rocks in front of our house. A sub adult Bald eagle was on it, accompanied by a flock of Common Crows and raucous Blue jays. Not a bad birding...

[Maine-birds] Migration

All We have a camp on First Roach Pond near Moosehead and Kokadjo. We have been up 5 times this summer beginning in late May and as recent as Labor Day.The lack of birds throughout the summer was eerily low. The one constant was the hummingbirds Not many warblers and almost no red eye vireos which are usually omnipresent there. Lack of yellow bellied sapsuckers also. Kind of disappointed for us. The saving grace were the loons,...

[Maine-birds] Fall Migration

I think it is important to ask Derek Lovitch about this topic. He repeatedly reported very significant numbers of migrants going past Sandy Point in Yarmouth over a period of several weeks earlier this month. He also has been using radar. I don't know how far back his records go for comparison purposes.I do know that the warbler numbers on Monhegan Island between Sept 12-26 were very low but it also has never been this balmy during...

Re: [Maine-birds] Cool Move by Spotted Sandpiper

One spring while hauling traps about 10 miles off MDI I had a Great Blue Heron try and land on the bow of my boat. It then flew off and landed in the water. I watched it for awhile and then eased my way over to it to see if I could get it aboard. I got to within 10' and it took off and was last seen headed for MDI. There were a couple of boats inside of me and they reported it still flying so I guess it made it. Sent...

Re: [Maine-birds] Fall Migration

Hello AllI am not a university trained ornithologist but especially given warming and its effect on weather patterns that the migratory months would not be the time to assess numbers rather breeding season.Regarding that and comments all this year on "quietness" in habitats during breeding season (again I am not a trained ornithologist) could it be that the steadily decreasing numbers of birds and decreasing density in appropriate...

Re: [Maine-birds] Fall Migration

I think back to this spring. Up here in the mountains it was definitely off. They came, then departed. It was strangely quiet. Usually by late April the ruby-crowned kinglets are screaming bloody murder. But this spring it was quiet. This month, most birds had moved thru, and it was quiet. Then last week we had a wave and it was very busy. I heard from friends that even Florida was off...

Tuesday, 29 September 2015

RE: [Maine-birds] Fall Migration

Hi All; Kristen has a really good point. Perhaps we're looking at the lack of numbers from our own perspective too much. However, it doesn't take a professional bird counter to know which way the wind is blowing, to coin a phrase. Numbers are down, and we'd all like to know why. Glenn JenksCamden, ME From: maine-birds@googlegroups.com [mailto:maine-birds@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kristen LindquistSent: Tuesday,...

Re: [Maine-birds] Fall Migration

It seems to me that the unusually fair weather we've experienced for the past month or so might be playing some role, at least, in why we are seeing fewer birds. We've had no fallout-producing conditions, so we're not seeing huge numbers of downed birds. I'm not so naive as to think that there are as many birds in existence as there were 20, 30, or 40 years ago. But they aren't suddenly all *gone*. Observations like those in Cape...

Re: [Maine-birds] Re: Fall Migration

I hope it's not all over yet. At least there was a report from Cape May 2-3 weeks ago of a carefully-estimated 56,000 warblers in one day.Down here in south FL (back at work) warbler numbers so far are maybe a bit down from normal, but not much. Joel WilcoxCherryfield, as much as possibleotherwise TamaracOn Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Peter Vickery <crescentchest@gmail.com> wrote:Maybe most of the birds are gone, it almost...

Re: [Maine-birds] Re: Fall Migration

Maybe most of the birds are gone, it almost seems obvious. Certainly compared to 30 - 40 years ago.Sadly,PeterOn Sep 29, 2015, at 6:36 PM, Richard Harris Podolsky <richardpodolsky@gmail.com> wrote:Thank you BAB for weighing in. Sorry to hear your migration was a bust down your way. If your and my experience is representative it is odd isn't it? In past low years the theory I heard floated is that...