From: "Linda Woodard" <lwoodard@MAINEAUDUBON.ORG> To: <BIRDEAST@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU> Subject: [BIRDEAST] Maine Bied Alert January 23, 2001 Date: Thursday, January 25, 2001 12:05 PM
Name: Maine Audubon Bird Alert
Date: January 23, 2001
Area: State of Maine
Number: (207) 781-2332
Compilers: Steve Pollock and Kay Gammons
Transcriber: Maine Audubon (birdalert@maineaudubon.org)
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The RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET was seen again on Monhegan Island. The DICKCISSEL was seen again at 191 Hills Beach Road at Biddeford Pool.
York County
An OVENBIRD has been spending the last several days at a feeder along Rt. 103 in Kittery Point. It was feeding this afternoon below a thistle feeder.
FOX, WHITE-THROATED and SONG SPARROWS were seen in York. A RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER was at feeder off Shore Rd. near the York-Ogunquit town line on Tuesday and Wednesday.
A DOVEKIE and a KING EIDER were at the Cliff House in Ogunquit.
Eight RED CROSSBILLS and 2 EVENING GROSBEAKS were at Kennebunk Beach. Twenty SNOW BUNTINGS and 2 FOX SPARROWS were at Parson's Beach.
At Goose Rocks there were 20 HORNED LARKS, 15 TREE and 1 SONG SPARROW.
ROBINS and CEDAR WAXWINGS were along Log Cabin Road in Arundel.
Seventy five PURPLE SANDPIPERS, a KING EIDER, 3 BARROW'S GOLDENEYES, 4 NORTHERN GANNETS, 1 BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE, 1 NORTHERN SHRIKE, 2 YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS and a NORTHERN HARRIER were at Biddeford Pool. A KILLDEER and 6 SNOW BUNTINGS were at Hills Beach.
A GLAUCOUS GULL was at Camp Ellis in Saco. Thirty-three ROBINS and 3 CEDAR WAXWINGS were in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Saco. WILD TURKEYS were seen on the Boom and Hearn Roads in Saco.
Greater Portland and western Maine
A BALD EAGLE and a BARROW'S GOLDENEYE were at Pine Point. Four NORTHERN PINTAILS, 3 HOODED and 3 COMMON MERGANSERS were on the river at Scarborough marsh.
Two BRANT and an ICELAND GULL were at Willard Beach in South Portland.
At Back Cove in Portland the CANVASBACK continues to be seen with reports near Payson Park and near the parking lot across from the Shop n Save plaza. At East End Beach there were 2 ICELAND and 1 GLAUCOUS GULL.
A NORTHERN SHRIKE was on the Gorham campus of University of Southern Maine.
A CAROLINA WREN was seen in Yarmouth.
EASTERN BLUEBIRDS were seen in Topsham.
A NORTHERN SHRIKE was seen in Bridgton.
Twenty SNOW BUNTINGS and 26 EVENING GROSBEAKS were in Sweden.
BALD EAGLES were in Harrison and Naples
Midcoast
BRANT were at Wiscasset.
Twenty-one CEDAR WAXWINGS, 4 SHARP-SHINNED and 2 COOPER'S HAWKS were observed in Phippsburg.
A NORTHERN SHRIKE, 30 WILD TURKEYS and 200 SNOW BUNTINGS were in Georgetown.
A RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER was seen at Camden Hills State Park. WILD TURKEYS and EVENING GROSBEAKS were in the Camden - Lincolnville area.
Ten BARROW'S GOLDENEYES were in Belfast harbor.
Ten SNOW BUNTINGS were near Clary Hill in Union.
Five RAZORBILLS, 1 THICK-BILLED MURRE and 3 BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES were at Pemaquid.
Two BLACK-HEADED GULLS were in Back of the Baptist church in Rockland.
A pair of NORTHERN PINTAIL was in Long Cove in Chamberlain.
A KING EIDER was on Linekin Bay in Boothbay. Birds seen in Boothbay Harbor in the last 5 days on Samoset Road included BELTED KINGFISHER, SHARP-SHINNED HAWK, RED CROSSBILL, ROBINS, and CEDAR WAXWINGS.
A BALD EAGLE was in Port Clyde.
The list from Monhegan Island included: 24 SNOW BUNTINGS, 10 WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS, 2 BALD EAGLES , 1 NORTHERN HARRIER and a RED-TAILED HAWK.
Eastern Maine
Three RED CROSSBILLS and 2 BALD EAGLES were at Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge.
Ten PURPLE FINCH were in Calais.
Central Maine
Forty SNOW BUNTINGS were in Turner.
Six SNOW BUNTINGS were found in China.
NORTHERN GOSHAWKS were in Dixmont and Bangor.
A ROBIN was in Dixmont.
EVENING GROSBEAKS visited an Orono feeder.
Northern Maine
The list from Houlton included: 20 JUNCOS, 4 PINE SISKINS, EVENING GROSBEAKS, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, TREE SPARROWS, PURPLE FINCHES and NORTHERN SHRIKE.
In Presque Isle bird sightings included ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, 4 PURPLE FINCH and 4 HORNED LARKS.
A GRAY JAY was seen in Wallagrass.
Linda Woodard Maine Audubon Society 20 Gilsland Farm Rd Falmouth, Maine 04105 lwoodard@maineaudubon.org
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