[Maine-birds] Northern Maine Birds:Glaucous, Iceland and Lesser Black-backed Gulls, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

I've been away from home for the past five days and stopped in at Collins Pond in Caribou to see what was around this afternoon.  

I found a nice flock of gulls and a few waterfowl.  The gull diversity was noteworthy with six species on the pond at once.  Nine adult and one third-cycle Lesser Black-backed Gulls were here as well as a glowing white first-cycle Glaucous Gull.  There were a couple dozen Great Black-backed Gulls and a single adult Iceland Gull among the hundreds of Herring and Ring-billeds on the pond. 

Back home, my feeders were empty and the yard almost silent.  (It kind of hurts that after a long winter of supporting them, all my birds skated out on me  just because I missed a few days' feedings...)  Only consolation was a newly arrived Yellow-bellied Sapsucker already drumming on a dead stub.

Cheers.

Bill

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

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