[Maine-birds] Re: No Western Grebe - 9:30 AM - 1 PM, 4/18, Simpson's Point, Brunswick

I stopped by Simpson's Point from about 4:40 to 5:20PM yesterday with similar results. I also went over to Lookout Point after that and scoped for another half hour or so. Sadly no matter how hard I tried I could not turn the lone Red-Necked Grebe I saw into a Western. 

On Monday, April 18, 2016 at 7:54:55 PM UTC-4, mresch8702 wrote:

I didn't see any later posts from Simpson's Point so here's an update -

 

After Rob Speir's sighting early this morning, there were no sightings of the Western Grebe through 1 PM despite lots of searching eyes.  I arrived at 9:45 and others were already searching.  I called it quits at 1 PM.  But there were lots of birds visible from the point, including these highlights -

 

Black Scoters - a huge flock that some estimated at 3,000 to 4,000.  At times we could hear them "singing" - a first for me

Kestrels - migrating north up the bay - at least 4

Osprey - likely migrating north - 2

Snowy Egret - 1 flew up the bay and landed near the point - seemed to have just arrived

 

And a short distance away I spotted a flock of about 15 Bohemian Waxwings feeding on a crabapple tree at the corner of Baribeau Drive and Peary Drive just south of Brunswick.  Very cooperative birds.

 

 

Mike Resch

www.statebirding.blogspot.com

Pepperell, MA

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