Maine birds And MOAC mountainbiking

Tuesday, 2 April 2013

[Maine-birds] Fox Sparrow photo?

Anyone have an eastern Fox Sparrow photo that Allison and I could use free-of-charge to illustrate a Boothbay Register column?

Jeff Wells

[Maine-birds] Re: pair blue birds back

My pair of nesting blue birds are back and inspecting their house.

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[Maine-birds] Sandhills Still in Raymond

Sighted again this morning at the same spot on North Raymond Road across from Mailman Road.

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[Maine-birds] Hawk Watch, Mt. Agamenticus, Apr 1, 2013

spent 2 hours, got a farely good digiscoped picture of cedar wing. : posted
to Maine bird list http://www.flickr.com/groups/mainebirdlist/
Later in the day my wife and I went for a walk at Tuckahoe Turf Farm and got
into a rain and hail storm, with gale force winds. One CROW and 61 CANADA
GEESE.

Mt. Agamenticus, York, US-ME
Apr 1, 2013 10:40 AM - 12:40 AM
Protocol: Stationary
Comments: West wind, partly cloudy
17 species (+2 other taxa)

duck sp. 9 too far away to see what kind of ducks they were
Great Blue Heron 3
Turkey Vulture 12
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Bald Eagle 1 4th year bird
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Red-tailed Hawk 6
Buteo sp. 2
Common Raven 3
Black-capped Chickadee 2
Eastern Bluebird 2
American Robin 8
European Starling 3
Cedar Waxwing 9
American Tree Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 3
Red-winged Blackbird 200
Common Grackle 160

View this checklist online at
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S13604963

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org/me)

Happy birding
Andy Aldrich
North Berwick

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[Maine-birds] Highlights in Dresden - Apr 01

- Large flock of Horned Larks frequenting Popp's Farm at the end of Glasheen Rd.

- Am Kestrel hunting around the edges of the middle level field at Green Point WMA

- 1 Am Tree Sparrow and several singing Song Sparrows at Green Pt.

- 2 early Chipping Sparrows in small mixed flock near Gorenson's greenhouses.

- a Gray Ghost flew right by me, without noticing I wasn't a tree

- another Kestrel at Hawkes Farm Rd

- 2 Killdeers at the Buffalo Ranch, soon to be renamed the BlackAngus Ranch

- And sorted thru many grackle-blackbird-cowbird flocks, still w/o seeing a Rusty BB.

Monday, 1 April 2013

[Maine-birds] Big flock(s) of Blackbirds at the Scarborough Marsh

I went out to check various spots of the Scarborough Marsh this afternoon after work and saw my FOY Snowy Egret at Dunstan Landing and 11 Gadwall behind Perelco.

As sundown approached, I searched the Industrial park off Rte 1 just north of the marsh in hopes of large blackbird flocks gathering there. This weekend had lots of blackbirds on the move so it seemed like a good time to check ( almost a month behind when I witnessed this last year). As I took my first righthand turn to head towards the Gervais property across from DMM, I estimated 2000-3000 blackbirds and growing lining the trees. Grackles led the way, followed by Red-Wingeds including many females, and smaller amounts of Cowbirds and Starlings. And no, I couldn't come up with a Brewers!

When I was about to leave the industrial park, approaching a traffic light at Rte 1 with Tim Horton's on my right and the Irving across the street, a seemingly endless swarm of blackbirds made their way from behind the Irving and towards the flock that I just left. I sat at the light for about one minute while the somewhat dense to extremely dense flock continued to flow overhead. I can't claim to feel confident in quickly estimating thousands of birds accurately and don't want to throw any crazy number out there, but conservatively, there had to have been at least 3000 more birds that flew over. I took many photos with a wide angle lens of the perched birds by DMM and when I have time, I will try to get an accurate count of what was there.

Bird haahd,

Noah Gibb-Portland

[Maine-birds] Biddeford Pool today

Great Egret on the grounds of the retreat center near the clothes line

Phoebe on rte 9 near intersection with Maddox Pond Road,

Won't tell exactly how I hung the U turn to get that bird's ID confirmed.