Sunday, 18 September 2016

Re: [Maine-birds] Digest for maine-birds@googlegroups.com - 5 updates in 5 topics

Thanks, Linda!  Is that really our mission statement?  I tried to confirm on line but couldn't find it.  I left out the babbling brook as I didn't want the overview to mislead our hoped for donors into thinking our beautiful waterfall actually was a brook on the property.  I also left out the first sanctuary bit as there is one older.  I can't find my article written about Mabel for The Connecticut Warbler right now, but the idea that we are the oldest is actually off by about a year.


Kathy Van Der Aue
Southport, Connecticut

On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 4:39 PM, <maine-birds@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Carol Muth <suzmuth@gmail.com>: Sep 18 02:40PM -0400

Nothing surprising about this, but if you are in the neighborhood, as the
tide is ebbing the beach at Roque Bluffs State Park is filled with hundreds
of peeps: semi-plamated plovers, semi-palmated sandpaipers and other things
you will know better than I do.
Carol
p.s. a Great Blue Heron has been hanging out this week at the marshy area
where Cow Point road and Johnson Cove Road meet.
Craig Kesselheim <ckesselheim@gmail.com>: Sep 18 06:23AM -0400

Good morning --
Joined a group trip to Mt. Desert Rock yesterday, sponsored by College of
the Atlantic, to celebrate 43 years of undergraduate field research
opportunities and the rebuilding of the station after Hurricane Bill's
damage in 2009. MDR lies about 22 miles out from Bar Harbor, and is a speck
of rock with very sparse vegetation.
 
*Birds on the Rock itself:*
 
Cape May Warbler - 1 actively foraging insects from roof, rafters,
windowsills
B-h Cowbird - 1 male in full ugly molt
Purple Finch - 1 feeding on thistle heads
N. Flicker - 1
R-b Nuthatch - 1 in boathouse and otherwise behaving like the CMWA
Lincoln's Sparrow! - 1 skulking in boulder crevices near house
Common Yellowthroat - 1 female
Merlin - 1
Am. Kestrel - 1 perching everywhere and feeding on what might have been an
oriole
Peregrine Falcon - 1
Ruddy Turnstone - 17
Least Sandpiper - 2
Semi Sandpiper - 3
Great Cormorant - 3+
 
*Birds along the way out and in:*
Common Tern - 2
Pomarine Jaeger - 1
N. Gannet - fewer than expected (20?)
Great Shearwater
Phalarope (probably Reds), multiple small flocks near the Rock
Common Eider
 
Cheers, all.
 
Craig
"Hodgkins" <hodgki@myfairpoint.net>: Sep 17 10:35PM -0400

There were about 2500 Tree Swallows swirling around Biddeford Pool mid-day today, seen with Andrew Gilbert....an amazing spectacle.
 
Glenn Hodgkins
Hallowell
 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/136703500@N05/29670749491/in/datetaken-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/136703500@N05/29125776194/in/datetaken-public/
tom A <tom.aversa@gmail.com>: Sep 17 05:15PM -0700

Great movement of passerines this morning at Unity Pond. Sixteen species
of warbler included a Western Palm Warbler (which surprised me), and a
small flock of Cape Mays. There seems to be good numbers of the
latter this fall - maybe the increasing spruce budworm up north (?). Also
my FOY Rusty Blackbird and a juvenile Sora. Surprisingly, not a single
vireo of any species.
 
Good birding,
tom
Denise Johnson <dpj113@maine.rr.com>: Sep 17 04:10PM -0700

Sorry about the earlier message done from the summit of Mt A on my IPhone,
giving no location :-(. York County Audubon came to support "Eyes Like A
Hawk" program by Center for Wildlife at the Learning Lodge Sat morning and
I was thinking of Andy and Ken having been there with their scopes.
After they had left, four of us saw 3 high flyers around 3:15pm between the
summit and the ocean - huge wings, broad tails, and one with a very
distinct white head who flew past the lodge heading south on a
stiff,southerly wind, not far from the coast ( say Kittery to the
Piscataqua). We all agreed an adult Bald Eagle. Another had very pointy
wings but seemed way too large for a falcon - maybe Osprey? Wished you were
there guys.
 
With hopefully only intermittent showers tomorrow, Mt A Trailfest, free to
the community, is still ON! Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the new
universally accessible "Big A" trail at 11:00a.m. Also, Bird Language hike
with Dan Guardoqui, Maine Fish & Game, demonstrations, a whopper Raffle,
Food, Live Music, Climbing Wall, Arts & Crafts, vendors, and more. Free
Shuttle from the York County Courthouse to the summit. We expect the base
and summit parking to fill up early.
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