Thursday, 3 May 2018

[Maine-birds] Re: Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, ME

Great report, Nathan! 

I was at Reid SP yesterday and also witnesses the living forest floor phenomena. Leaves were flipping everywhere! 

Great news on the Eastern Whip-poor-will as well. I've been eagerly waiting for their arrival and have been watching the distribution maps. I was sure that last night would be their night and it seems it was! I'm excited to see your photos. 

Best, 

Logan


On Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 8:32:41 AM UTC-4, Nathan Hall wrote:
I birded Evergreen Cemetery from the 'junk' pond to the big pond and back. 

To say the least it was overwhelming. There were hundreds of YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS and WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS. In fact, when I first got there there was so much noise on the forest floor that I was sure a WHITE-TAILED DEER herd was going to pop out at any moment. No deer just hundreds and hundreds of sparrows. As I walked, the forest floor kept leaping, it was kind of creepy, as if the floor had come alive. I'm sure that I missed a lot because I was trying to count those two species.

There were a number of other warbler species and other fun birds, but the real highlight for me was a COMMON WHIP-POOR-WILL. I flushed the bird as I was walking between the ponds and got to spend a bit of time observing the bird before it flew off into the forest. I got a number of pictures and will upload them to my eBird checklists later.

Here are my checklists:



I also want to give a shout out to Cornell's new BirdCast. It said there would be a huge push overnight last night and it completely delivered. If you aren't checking it you should be.


Be well
Nathan Hall

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