As is often the case, work has dominated most of my daylight hours. A break from academia, however, has freed up my mornings, nights, and weekends for birding around local areas.
-- May 8th: A morning jaunt down to east side of the Kennebec in Augusta produced my first Rose-breasted Grosbeak pair of the year.
May 11th: A male Baltimore Oriole was seen and heard singing in the Sugar Maple outside the house in Augusta. I made my way down to Kennebec where the Yellow Warblers (4) and Gray Catbirds (6) are increasingly abundant. En route, I located a female Northern Flicker poking out of a nest cavity in Quaking Aspen (second year this cavity has been used). Double-crested Cormorant (13) piled on to log sticking out of the river. A Great Blue Heron flying down stream flushed a juvenile Black-crowned Night-heron that flew downriver and landed in an alder thicket. On the way back, I encountered my first Veery of the year in the elderberries.
May 12th: A brief visit to the Hallowell Reservoir produced a number of warbler species including Yellow Warbler (2), Northern Parula (5), Ovenbird (4), Black-and-white Warbler (4), Pine Warbler (2), Yellow-rumped Warbler (3), Black-throated Green Warbler (2), and a first-of-year Black-throated Blue Warbler. Chimney Shifts (6) were observed hawking insects above the reservoir.
I stopped into the Arboretum on the way home. During my visit, I encountered a number of the usual suspects. Just west of Viles Pond, I observed a Lincoln's Sparrow flitting through the underbrush. After a brief disappearance, the bird perched and preened out in the open allowing for good looks.
May 13th: I spent Saturday working around the cabin in Palermo with a morning chorus of warblers, vireo, and sapsuckers. The majority of the day was spent helping a friend roof a sugar-shack. While up on the scaffolding, a handful of warblers, a Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Baltimore Oriole, and a first-of-year Great-Crested Flycatcher moved through the area.
Links to lists, some including photos (not so easy to operate a camera and screwdriver at the same time):
Maine birds mailing list
maine-birds@googlegroups.com
http://groups.google.com/group/maine-birds
https://sites.google.com/site/birding207
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