Saturday, 7 October 2017

[Maine-birds] MDI Black-backed Woodpecker & dowitcher

It’s been a while since I felt I had good local birds I wanted to share, but that all changed yesterday. 

While birding with a group at the MDI High School retention ponds, we heard the gentle tapping of a three-toed woodpecker. We quickly zeroed in on it and had good views through the scope of a female Black-backed Woodpecker working a dead spruce.

Later, while scanning the edges of the ponds for possible shorebirds, we found a lone Long-billed Dowitcher. Another nice find, as well as my first for that locale.


Richard MacDonald
The Natural History Center
P.O. Box 6
Bar Harbor, Maine 04609
207/266-9461
Rich@TheNaturalHistoryCenter.com
www.TheNaturalHistoryCenter.com
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