Friday, 3 February 2017

[Maine-birds] Additional Highlights This Week +, 1/24-2/3/2017

Hi all,
My other observations of note over the past 11 days also included:

- 1 adult Glaucous Gull and 1 1st-winter Iceland Gull, Bath Landfill, 1/27. Perhaps the same two individuals were in the Kennebec River off of Bath's downtown later that morning.
- 1 1st-winter Iceland Gull, off Winslow Park, Freeport, 1/28 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).
- 1 male Barrow's Goldeneye, 1 male Belted Kingfisher, and all three mergansers, Lower Falls Landing, Yarmouth, 1/28 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).
- 3 Lesser Scaup, Cumberland Town Landing, 1/28 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).
- 1 continuing male KING EIDER, 3 1st-winter and 1 second winter Iceland Gulls, Old Port, Portland, 1/29 (with York County Audubon Gull Workshop group).
- 2 American Pipits, Seapoint Beach, Kittery, 1/30 (with Jeannette).
- 1 hen Northern Pintail, Moody Marsh, Ogunquit, 1/30 (with Jeannette).
- 1 continue SHORT-EARED OWL, Reid State Park, Georgetown, 2/2 (at dusk).
- 42 Bohemian Waxwings, Church Hill Road, Augusta, 2/3.

- Cedar Waxwings have been quite widespread this past week, with a high count of 70 around our store on 2/1.

Photos of the Mew Gull, Pink-footed Geese, and Bullock's Oriole from 1/31 as previously reported are here:

-Derek

 
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 Derek and Jeannette Lovitch
 Freeport Wild Bird Supply
 541 Route One, Suite 10
 Freeport, ME 04032
 207-865-6000
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