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Friday, 5 June 2020

[Maine-birds] Maine Bird Atlas - Weekly Challenges, 6/5

Hi everyone:

Last week's results:
Breeding season is ramping up and your effort to cover the state is paying off: you all managed to get confirmed breeding records in new blocks for 90 species! The extra effort for Bank Swallows did add one new block, but picked up three more for Northern Rough-winged Swallow as well. 91 checklists with confirmed Canada Geese bumped the number of confirmed blocks up by 26. And solid effort on Ovenbirds add 18 new blocks with possible, 24 with probable, and 5 with confirmed records. Congrats to Zach from Brooksville, Woody from Pembroke, and Whit in Phippsburg for being chosen by excel's random number generator as winners this week!

Here are the challenges for this week:

1) All Species Safe Day - That is right, every atlaser's favorite made-up holiday is next Wednesday, June 10th. On that day we will be in the safe dates for all species and you can start ignoring safe dates (at least until July). The challenge is to submit a list on the 10th, 11th, or 12th (before noon, when I draw winners) that has at least 15 coded species on it.

2) Red-eyed Vireo - They're singing everywhere right now and a pair in my backyard are reconstructing last year's nest, which was all the motivation I needed to pick this species for the challenge. Any coded records in NEW blocks is your challenge: https://ebird.org/atlasme/map/reevir1

3) Nightjars - The bright moon this weekend should make for good opportunities to hear Common Nighthawks and Eastern Whip-poor-wills. Any coded records for these species puts you in the running for this challenge (nighthawk safe dates begins today).

Good birding and happy atlasing!

Doug Hitchcox
Maine Bird Atlas - Outreach Coordinator
Maine Audubon - Staff Naturalist
207-781-2330 x237
dhitchcox@maineaudubon.org

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[Maine-birds] Maine Birds

June 5, 2020, Essex Street Marsh, Bangor

Please forgive this report. There were some nice birds this morning including a mother Common Merganser and her 7 little Mergs. But what really excited me was a coiled snake in the path, 2 feet or more long, tan with patterned brown splotches. I looked it up when I got home. It was a Milk Snake, one I have never seen before and it was so beautiful!

Aloyse Larrabee, Dexter

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Thursday, 4 June 2020

[Maine-birds] YB Cuckoo

A Yellow-billed Cuckoo has been calling and teasing me all afternoon. Every time I knelt in the garden to pull some weeds, it started again. Finally grabbed the binoculars and stood under the large oak tree it was calling from- only to see a Blue Jay fly in and chase it out. At least I saw it fly off! Distinctly rufous wings and long tail- and the call is so distinctive. New yard bird for the Maine!

Nancy Dickinson

New Harbor/Pemaquid

[Maine-birds] First Monarch butterfly

Not a bird sighting but thought it would be worthy to post my first Monarch butterfly sighting today.

Feeding on my high bush blueberry blossoms. It was small and quite flighty so at first glance I thought it was a Viceroy, but could clearly see that it was a monarch when it landed.

Terry Sprague on North Haven, midcoast island, Knox county

Re: [Maine-birds] About equitable birding

Thanks for this Craig and Kristen! Great to know how rich the Black American birding community is and to see the goings-on for this inaugural Black Birders Week!

On Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 10:19:37 AM UTC-4, Kristen Lindquist wrote:

Thank you for bringing this to our attention, Craig! I'll just add that if you're on Twitter and follow the hashtag #BlackBirdersWeek, you can enjoy/support some wonderful posts being shared by birders of color and raise your awareness of what it's like for them to participate in an outdoor activity like birding--something most of us simply take for granted.

Kristen

On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 9:33 AM Craig Kesselheim <ckess...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all - This isn't a report of a sighting.

I just want to share the #BlackBirdersWeek event that is happening currently, because it had not been on my radar and because our current events demand that we pay attention to all of our fellow birders with new urgency and commitment.

Here's a link to get you going, if interested. It's called #BlackBirdersWeek Takes On Systemic Racism, and this article comes from High Country News.

Best,
Craig K

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[Maine-birds] Sandhill crane Scarborough marsh

Correction: @11:06 am

Also five WRSA

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[Maine-birds] Sandhill crane Scarborough marsh

Also one or more white rumped sandpiper

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