Maine birds And MOAC mountainbiking

Saturday, 2 February 2013

[Maine-birds] Palm and Yellow-rumped Warbler, Glaucous Gull continue at Saco Yacht Club

The title is pretty self explanatory. Made a quick stop at the Saco
Yacht Club, not really expecting to see much, but was pleasantly
surprised to see that the previously reported 1st winter Glaucous Gull
had returned. I walked the path along the river, without seeing
anything more unusual than a pair of Carolina Wrens and was almost
back to my car when I heard the distinctive chip of a Yellow-rump.
Found the bird foraging with the "western" Palm Warbler along the
river bank, apparently picking insects out of the leaf litter. Glad to
know they're still hanging on, but no sign of the Nashville or
Orange-crowned Warblers.

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David Rankin
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[Maine-birds] Clinton today: 10 White-winged Gulls, Greater Scaup & more

The Golden Eagle was more elusive today; Jeff Webb and I missed it after driving around for almost 2 hours, although we did get a look at it across the river from the Shawmut dam last Sunday. We were very surprised to see 3 GLAUCOUS and 7 ICELAND GULLS resting on the ice and swimming in a mixed flock of about 80 gulls, just above the dam.

Also at the dam were a pair of GREATER SCAUP, and below the dam at the bend of the river were 200+ GOLDENEYE, a little too distant to ID most of them (couldn't pick out any Barrows).

Near Flood Farm a COOPER'S and 2 RED-TAILED HAWK were seen, and they did seem to be making the gulls and crows take flight in large numbers. A 3rd Red-tailed was seen perched just down the road. A very birdy area for inland Maine in early February.

Sean Smith

[Maine-birds] BLACK VULTURES

I saw 5 black vultures while in Exeter NH this morning around 10am. They went in an easterly direction over rte 108. I have some okay pictures if any body wants to see them, just let me know.

Dan

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[Maine-birds] Ross's Goose

Once I heard it was a Ross's & not a Snow I instantly set out for the Samo in Rockland. Not hard to spot within the Canada's. The bird continues on the golf course next to the last building next to the water ad of 4:18pm. First new bird of the year!! A lifer for sure.

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[Maine-birds] Northern Shoveler, Westbrook 2/2.

Hi all,
Don Thompson reports a NORTHERN SHOVELER is at Riverbank Park in Westbrook this afternoon.
-Derek

Sent from my iPhone

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[Maine-birds] Strawberry Island

I had a Condo Association meeting for a prperty I manage in Kenebunk today so I snuck over to Strawberry Island on my way home. When I got back to my car I saw an interesting Goldeneye. I don't know enough about their plumage cycles and maturation process so I will make the assumption that I saw a juvenile drake CoGo, but the feather pattern on the back was much more like a Drake Barrows.

I have uploaded two images for ID to the Maine Birds Flickr site (all are welcomed to join.)

http://www.flickr.com/groups/mainebirdlist/

The duck was backlit so I did my best to compensate. The head shape is CoGo, The cheek spot is not well defined, but more similar to CoGo than BaGo.

Take a look and let me know if we are talking hybrid here.

Cheers,

Chuck

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[Maine-birds] Rockland white goose is a ROSS'S

Don Reimer sent photos of the goose seen near/at the Samoset. He suspected it might be a Ross's Goose, and sure enough that is what the photos show. Thanks to don for sorting this out.

Louis Bevier
Fairfield

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