[Maine-birds] Northern Maine Birds: Common Redpolls, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Northern Shovelers

I got in some yard work here in Woodland this AM prior to the onset of rain.  

Two vocal flocks of Common Redpolls flew over in the middle of the morning.  The first flock had about 15 birds.  The second one was about 80 to 100 birds. I was able to pish some of it out of the sky and got the birds to circle the yard a few times, but they wouldn't land and continued on in a southerly direction.  These were my first of fall.  

I also had several singleton Pine Grosbeak flyovers. These too, were calling as they went.   The flight call of a single Pine Grosbeak is a lonely sound on a gray November morning...  There's a plaintive tone that I don't think I hear when the birds are calling in a flock. 

Three lateish Northern Shovelers appeared today at Collins Pond in Caribou.   A couple Iceland Gulls and a Lesser Black-backed Gull were among several hundred gulls that were also on the pond in the middle of the day.  

The Canada Geese didn't return to their usual midday roosts today since they could get water in the fields.

Good Birding

Bill

--

Bill Sheehan
Woodland, Aroostook Co., Maine
http://northernmainebirds.blogspot.com/

--
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 maine-birds+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.