[Maine-birds] Re: Timber Point highlights

White-Eyed Vireo was present today around 4:15PM, hunting in the growth along the right side of the path in to the park from the gate to a point about 200 yards down or so. Very active feeding but not calling at all. Cool bird. Lifer for me,  and real treat as I had been searching the area while my wife and son played on the beach. I had passed the area making it down to the observation deck without luck. Up to that point whenever I heard movement in the undergrowth it turned out to be a Chickadee or Goldfinch that would fly out. When I decided to return, feeling dejected, I saw my wife down the trail, waving me on, and another birder that approached me said they had been just watching the vireo! Great to see it, but even better to share it!

Cheers

 

On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 9:41:30 AM UTC-4, Lena Moser wrote:

Went birding for a couple of hours at Timber Point this morning... Started out solo, but bumped into Sue, Dave Doubleday, Anne Hastings, and Ken Janes further down the trail.  I've highlighted the highlights below :)  (I missed B-t Blue warbler, but others reported having it.)

Cheers,
Lena

46 species

Common Eider  X
Common Loon  4
Double-crested Cormorant  12
Great Blue Heron  3
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Willet  1
Least Sandpiper  1
Bonaparte's Gull  6
Herring Gull  X
Great Black-backed Gull  4
Mourning Dove  2
Downy Woodpecker  2
Northern Flicker  1
American Kestrel  1
Merlin  1
Least Flycatcher  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
White-eyed Vireo  1     Same individual still hanging around.  Nice, bright white iris.  Bird sat in large maple, tilting head, then suddenly sallying to a cluster of maple flowers and snatching an insect, returning to sit and gaze around.
Blue Jay  1
American Crow  4
Tree Swallow  X
Barn Swallow  2
Black-capped Chickadee  5
Red-breasted Nuthatch  2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  2
Eastern Bluebird  1
American Robin  5
Gray Catbird  7
Brown Thrasher  1
European Starling  4
Black-and-white Warbler  6
Nashville Warbler  1
Northern Parula  1
Yellow Warbler  5
Black-throated Green Warbler  4
Chipping Sparrow  4
White-throated Sparrow  12
Song Sparrow  10
Swamp Sparrow  1
Eastern Towhee  3
Northern Cardinal  2
Red-winged Blackbird  6
Common Grackle  X
Baltimore Oriole  1
House Finch  2
American Goldfinch  X

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