I keep missing this bird that is regularly right out the door from MCHT office at the yellow mill building (Bowdoin Mill). At 4pm tonight it flew out from a small island of trees and juniper in the Sea Dog parking lot and landed high on the roof line of the mill building where it walked with a distinct bobbing motion kind of like a waterthrush (definitely not a waterthrush based on call. The other day it was hunkered down in the same area and would not flush. I cannot place the chipping call it makes when it flies, but something reminiscent of a pipit, longspur, duh i just don't know bird. Its the size of the birds just mentioned or large sparrow. By the time I got my binoculars tonight it flew over the green bridge and landed in the small floodplain shrubby area on the Topsham side of the river. Not claiming that this is a show stopper, but given the odd habitats, habits and call that I can't place, its something different... If I get on it, I'll keep folks posted. If you are in the area it might be worth birding the Sea Dog parking area. It has been here for at least a week.
-- SW
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