[Maine-birds] Blackbirds Saco

FOY  2 Red Winged blackbirds in Saco Friday afternoon....

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[Maine-birds] This Week's Highlights, 2/22-28

Hi all,My observations of note for a great week of late winter birding are included here:https://mebirdingfieldnotes.blog/2025/02/27/this-weeks-highlights-2-22-2-28-2025/-Derek***************************************** Derek and Jeannette Lovitch Freeport Wild Bird Supply 541 Route One, Suite 10  Freeport, ME 04032  207-865-6000  www.freeportwildbirdsupply.com    ****************...

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[Maine-birds] early territorial behavior?

A male bluebird repeatedly attacks the windows of our house near the feeding station and is calling frequently. This appears to be territorial behavior but isn't it early? This is a resident flock of bluebirds.Michelle GregoireWestbrook -- Maine birds mailing list maine-birds@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/maine-birds https://sites.google.com/site/birding207 --- You received this message because...

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[Maine-birds] This Week's Highlights, 2/15-21

Hi all,My observations of note over the past seven days can be found here:https://mebirdingfieldnotes.blog/2025/02/21/this-weeks-highlights-2-15-2-21-2025/-Derek***************************************** Derek and Jeannette Lovitch Freeport Wild Bird Supply 541 Route One, Suite 10  Freeport, ME 04032  207-865-6000  www.freeportwildbirdsupply.com    ********************************...

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[Maine-birds] Snowy owl

Gonna be on the hunt for one this weekend.  Live in the Pine Point area and have heard they (it) is around.  Been out several days and have had no luck.  Anyone with info please share.  thanks -- Maine birds mailing list maine-birds@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/maine-birds https://sites.google.com/site/birding207 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the...

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[Maine-birds] glaucous gull

Hello,Thought a Glaucous (Lewiston, Androscoggin County) might be interesting to some of you. You will want a telescope for best viewing. Not sure if they are still there--but . . . .https://ebird.org/checklist/S214047864Happy Birding,Trish -- Maine birds mailing list maine-birds@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/maine-birds https://sites.google.com/site/birding207 --- You received this message...

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[Maine-birds] Snow buntings and horned larks

I drove along Upper Street in Turner again yesterday and had quick views of a big flock of snow buntings and horned larks near the first big farm on the left as you come up the hill heading north.Danny-- Loring M. DanforthCharles A. Dana Professor of Anthropology EmeritusBates College446 College St.Lewiston, ME 04240 -- Maine birds mailing list maine-birds@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/maine-birds...

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[Maine-birds] This Week's Highlights, 2/8-14

Hi all,Here are my observations of note over the past seven days:https://mebirdingfieldnotes.blog/2025/02/14/this-weeks-highlights-2-8-2-14-2025/-Derek***************************************** Derek and Jeannette Lovitch Freeport Wild Bird Supply 541 Route One, Suite 10  Freeport, ME 04032  207-865-6000  www.freeportwildbirdsupply.com    *************************************...

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[Maine-birds] "Goldeneye" Roque Bluffs (don't get excited)

Only if you are in the neighborhood of  Roque Bluffs and birding at the bridge over the Englishmans River, you might check the view to Englishmans Bay from a culvert, close to the entrance to Cow Point. On recent mornings between 9-10:30am, high tide,  Wally has been seeing a single Goldeneye offshore for a couple of weeks, including...

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[Maine-birds] Monhegan Sighting Update

I've added another update to the Birds of Monhegan Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/groups/778377796965411 - highlighted by the addition of Western Wood-Pewee as the 340th island species and an Ash-throated Flycatcher in late Oct. 2024 (the second record of the fall). Thanks to Luke Seitz for the photos.Brett Ewald716-628-8226brett.ewald90@gmail.com -- Maine birds mailing list maine-birds@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/maine-birds...

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[Maine-birds] This Week's Highlights, 2/1-2/8.

Hi all,Here are my observations of note over the past seven days:https://mebirdingfieldnotes.blog/2025/02/07/this-weeks-highlights-2-1-2-8-2025/-Derek***************************************** Derek and Jeannette Lovitch Freeport Wild Bird Supply 541 Route One, Suite 10  Freeport, ME 04032  207-865-6000  www.freeportwildbirdsupply.com    *************************************...

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[Maine-birds] Brown Creepers

One Brown Creeper was on Spruce trees in our yard on January 2. Then, today, January 6, we saw two Brown Creepers. To our surprise they spent more time in the snow on the ground and at the mossy base of the spruce trees than they did climbing up the trunk, although they did a bit of that, too. Mid-February is the time when small insects in the Family Boreidae, that spend their lives in the moss and climb onto the snow to mate...

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[Maine-birds] Horned Larks and more

I went up to the intersection of Pearl St and Upper Sts. in Turner this morning before the snow started and found a flock of 30 or so Horned Larks. Mixed in were two Lapland Longspurs. A flock of Snow Buntings put in a very brief visit too.Danny-- Loring M. DanforthCharles A. Dana Professor of Anthropology EmeritusBates College446 College St.Lewiston, ME 04240 -- Maine birds mailing list maine-birds@googlegroups.com...

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[Maine-birds] history of banded Common Gull at Rockland and South Portland

A nearly seven year-old mystery has been solved. The solution also presents many more questions. Last fall, Maine birders might recall that on Halloween Evan Obercian found a European Common Gull (Larus canus canus) at Rockland. The following day, Magill Weber and Ethan Whitaker looking for that bird found what they assumed was the same bird. But after photos were posted, their bird was discovered to have a color band on its...

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