From: "Linda Woodard" <lwoodard@MAINEAUDUBON.ORG> To: <BIRDEAST@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU> Subject: [BIRDEAST] Maine Bird Alert 9/25/01 Date: Thursday, September 27, 2001 6:03 PM
Name: Maine Audubon Bird Alert
Date: September 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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A group of 8 CASPIAN TERNS flew over Biddeford Pool September 20, early in the morning heading south. A BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK was seen on Monhegan Island. A SNOWY EGRET was seen in Wilton.
York County
A lingering RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD was seen in York.
At the Sanford treatment plant there was a PIED-BILLED GREBE, both BLUE-WINGED and GREEN-WINGED TEAL, a LINCOLN'S SPARROW and many YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS.
In North Berwick, a BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO was in a yard.
A BLACKPOLL WARBLER and a NORTHERN TOWHEE were at Laudholm Farm in Wells.
Three BLUE-WINGED TEAL and a NORTHERN PINTAIL were at Fortune's Rocks in Biddeford. Several distant SHEARWATERS were off Eastern Point also in Biddeford. At the Hills Beach Section of Biddeford Pool there were 25 LAUGHING GULLS, 10 RED KNOTS, 1 PIPING PLOVER, 150 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, 1 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER, 1 PEREGRINE FALCON, RUBY-CROWNED and GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS, LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER, 2 HUDSONIAN GODWITS, and 4 COMMON TERNS. Near Eastern Point at the Pool there were 1 CAROLINA WREN, numerous RED-EYED, 1 WARBLING and 1 BLUE-HEADED VIREO plus several species of WARBLERS. A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was near the golf course. In the pool there were GREEN-WINGED TEAL and several species of SHOREBIRDS, plus SNOWY EGRETS and LITTLE BLUE HERONS. Several species of WARBLERS and a LINCOLN'S SPARROW were off the Ferry Road in Saco. Four RED-NECKED GREBES were at the Bay View section of Saco.
Scarborough Marsh Area
At Pine Point there was a LITTLE GULL and 25 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, 239 DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS, a RED-THROATED LOON, 3 GREAT EGRETS, 12 SNOWY EGRETS, AMERICAN PIPITS, RED-EYED and BLUE-HEADED VIREOS, RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD and 200 SHOREBIRDS which included: 40+ BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 30+ GREATER YELLOWLEGS, several dozen SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPERS, a few SEMI-PALMATED PLOVERS, 3 WILLET and 3 DOWITCHERS. Dunstan Landing also had a GREEN HERON, YELLOW-RUMPED and MAGNOLIA WARBLER, SONG and SWAMP SPARROW, EASTERN WOOD PEWEE and EASTERN PHOEBE. A RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD was in the Willowdale section of Scarborough.
Greater Portland and western Maine
In Evergreen Cemetery there was either a BICKNELL'S or GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, 2 SWAINSON'S and 1 HERMIT THRUSH.
In Bridgton there was a COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, 1 TUFTED TITMOUSE, a WHITE-THROATED SPARROW and a PURPLE FINCH.
On Hemlock Bridge Road in Fryeburg, along the Old Course of the Saco there were; 1WILD TURKEY, 29 NORTHERN FLICKERS, 1 GREAT BLUE HERON, 1 DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT, and 8 PALM WARBLERS.
GRAY JAYS were seen on Bigelow Mountain.
In Wilton this past week there was an ORANGE-CROWNED and other WARBLERS, BARRED OWL, COOPER'S HAWK, SHARP-SHINNED HAWK, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, and 20 EVENING GROSBEAKS.
Midcoast
Four BALD EAGLES and 2 TURKEY VULTURES were over Merry Meeting Bay.
A YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER and a WINTER WREN were seen on Morse Mountain in Phippsburg. In Thomaston, an adult male BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER was about 100 yards down the Jack Williams trail from Beachwood Street in a large dead
Monhegan Island
On Monhegan there were 4 LARK and 2 CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, 2 YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS, 1 DICKCISSEL, AMERICAN PIPITS, YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, BOBOLINK, and 17 species of WARBLERS including ORANGE-CROWNED.
Central Maine
In Unity there were 2 TURKEY VULTURES and a SHARP-SHINNED HAWK.
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS, COMMON YELLOWTHROATS and a SHARP-SHINNED HAWK were in Dixmont.
Northern Maine
The list from Houlton this past week included: SHARP-SHINNED HAWK, ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK, and several species of WARBLERS.
In Fort Kent this week there were WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS, BOREAL CHICKADEES, 80 CANADA GEESE, YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS, and a BARRED OWL.
Linda Woodard Maine Audubon Society 20 Gilsland Farm Rd Falmouth, Maine 04105 lwoodard@maineaudubon.org
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