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Friday, 26 September 2014

[Maine-birds] Plover on Flat Bay

There has been only a trickle of shorebirds passing through our viewing area of Flat Bay - until today. We saw a flock of 250+ Semi-palmated Plover across the bay from our house. That was the number we could see and it appeared that more birds were further up the bay beyond our view point.

Merle and Anne Archie

Harrington

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[Maine-birds] Pectoral Sandpipers - Sebasticook Lake, Newport

The water level is being drawn down at Sebasticook and some decent sized mudflats are now exposed. North-west of the Durham Bridge at the northern end of the lake there was a flock of 46 Pectoral Sandpipers this morning. And, I counted 56 Wood Ducks, most south of the bridge.

Good Birding,

John

[Maine-birds] Re: Feathers question

Thanks to everyone for help guessing the ID of the feathers I found. The guess I’m going with at the moment is female Cardinal. The pinkish-red flight feathers with white rachis don’t fit anything else I can think of, although these feathers had white tips which I don’t normally associate with Cardinal. The gray, buffy-yellow tipped downy breast(?) feathers don’t strike me as Cardinal-like either, though the solid gray ones, which were in the majority, do. Thanks for the guesses, and if anyone has any others I’d like to hear them.

Sean

[Maine-birds] Re: Photo of feathers

Could be a catbird?

On Thursday, September 25, 2014 7:44:28 PM UTC-4, Sean wrote:

Sorry everyone, didn't include this the first time.

Sean Smith

[Maine-birds] Raymond Sandhills are back

Over the past few days we've spotted the Sandhill Cranes back in the farm field on North Raymond Road across from Mailman Road. There's a lot of construction going on up by the barn, the beautiful old house has been torn down and are building a new one so that may be what had scared the cranes off.

Thursday, 25 September 2014

[Maine-birds] Photo of feathers

Sorry everyone, didn’t include this the first time.

Sean Smith

[Maine-birds] Feathers ID question

I found these feathers on the walking/running trail at Saxl Park in Bangor this afternoon, not far from where I saw several Bohemian Waxwings yesterday. Looks like the remnants of a hawk kill. There were no Bohemians when I went today (only one Cedar was seen in the fruiting trees) but I’m wondering what these might belong to? There were a couple of Flickers around but to me these didn’t look like Flicker feathers, though I could be wrong. A couple of longer feathers are reddish & white, the smaller ones are either gray or half-gray with buffy yellow on the outer parts. Anyone?