Friday, 24 March 2017

[Maine-birds] Additional Highlights this Week, 3/18-24

Hi all,

Some more observations of note from me over the past seven days included:
- 6 Evening Grosbeaks, Tuttle Road, Pownal, 3/18 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).
- 1 continuing immature male KING EIDER continues, Portland Harbor, 3/19.
- 1 1st-winter Glaucous Gull  and 3 Lesser Scaup, Portland Fish Pier, 3/19.
- 9 Ruddy Turnstones, 2 Brant, and 105+ Purple Sandpipers, East Point/Ocean Avenue, Biddeford Pool, 3/19.
- 5 Ring-necked Ducks, Riverbank Park, Westbrook, 3/20 (with Jeannette).
- 2 Lesser and 1 Greater Scaup, Simpson's Point, Brunswick, 3/21 (with Zane Baker).
- 1 Northern Shrike, Rossmore Road, Brunswick, 3/21 (with Zane Baker).
- 6 Dunlin, Wharton Point, Brunswick, 3/21 (with Zane Baker).
~ 250 Scaup, mostly Lesser (perhaps as much as 90%), off Maquoit Bay Conservation Land, Brunswick, 3/21 (with Zane Baker).
- 3 Fish Crows (FOY), Rte 1, Falmouth, 3/23.

Additional Bohemian Waxwing sightings, as a follow up to my post from earlier this week, included:
~ 30 continuing here at the store through the end of the day on the 22nd, but have now moved on.
- 68 continue at Pine Tree Academy in Freeport as of the late morning, today, 3/24 (with Zane Baker).

 -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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