From: "Linda Woodard" <lwoodard@MAINEAUDUBON.ORG> To: <BIRDEAST@listserv.arizona.edu> Subject: [BIRDEAST] Maine Bird Alert Feb. 26, 2002 Date: Thursday, February 28, 2002 1:39 PM
Name: Maine Audubon Bird Alert
Date: February 26, 2002
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 migration of RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS into the state began this week with numerous reports of single birds or very small flocks. The locations of these reports were numerous throughout York and coastal Cumberland counties as well as southern Androscoggin County and downeast to Bar Harbor. CANADA GEESE appear to have moved onto the Scarborough area marshes and along the lower Saco River. A HOARY REDPOLL was reported in a flock of 200 COMMON REDPOLLS in Belgrade. Two
SNOWY OWLS were on Monhegan Island. Again this week we received many reports of BARRED OWLS.
York County One BARRED OWL and 1 COMMON RAVEN were in York.
A pair of Common Mergansers were cruising the channel to the left of the bridge on Drake's Island Road in Wells.
The Biddeford Pool bird count was 10 BRANT, 2 HARLEQUIN DUCKS, 4 HOODED MERGANSERS, 4 BONAPARTE'S GULLS,WHITE-THROATED and SONG SPARROWS, COMMON GRACKLES, and BROWN HEADED COWBIRDS. A BALD EAGLE was at the boat landing off route 9 in Biddeford.
At the Saco Yacht Club there was 1 GREAT CORMORANT, 1 GREAT BLUE HERON, 1 LESSER SCAUP, COMMON MERGANSERS, and 12 COMMON GRACKLES.
Greater Portland and western Maine Two NORTHERN PINTAILS were behind the Pelreco building at Pine Point in Scarborough. On the river across from the Scarborough Marsh Nature Center there were 2 NORTHERN PINTAILS, several HOODED MERGANSERS, a GREAT BLUE HERON, and COMMON GRACKLES.
Off the Eastern Prom there were at least 3 ICELAND GULLS and in the water nearby was a GLAUCOUS GULL. At the Back Cove inlet near the wastewater treatment plant, there was a single Iceland Gull. A BARRED OWL was near the Elks Club in Portland.
A BARRED OWL was in Gray.
A flock of about 15 GRACKLES, were near Wassamski Springs in Gorham. A NORTHERN SHRIKE was along Rt. 114 between the intersection of Route 22 and Gorham village.
In Westbrook, on Eisenhower Dr. there was a Cooper's Hawk.
A GREAT HORNED OWL was at Karen Dr. off County Rd in Falmouth.
A RED-SHOULDERED HAWK was in Freeport between exits 20 and 21 of I-95.
A NORTHERN SHRIKE, 1 NORTHERN HARRIER, 1 NORTHERN FLICKER, and a CAROLINA WREN were found in Brunswick.
A CAROLINA WREN and 6 HOODED MERGANSERS were sighted in Topsham.
A BALD EAGLE was seen in South Casco.
Over in Raymond there were 200 COMMON REDPOLLS.
A BOREAL CHICKADEE was seen in Lovell village.
The list from Wilton included: 1 COOPER'S HAWK, 30 PINE GROSBEAKS, 30 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS, and 200 COMMON REDPOLLS.
Midcoast Good birds in Phippsburg included COOPER'S HAWK, BARRED OWL, and a PILEATED WOODPECKER.
A SHORT EARED OWL was on the outskirts of Damariscotta Mills on Morgan Hill Rd. overlooking Great Salt Bay.
A GLAUCOUS GULL was in back of the church near the Samoset Inn in Rockland.
A Barred Owl was along RT 1A outside Winterport.
Eastern Maine COMMON GRACKLES, BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS, 1 RUSTY BLACKBIRD, COMMON REDPOLLS, 1 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, and PINE GROSBEAKS were in Bar Harbor.
In Machias there was a single AMERICAN ROBIN hanging out near the courthouse on Lyons St., also a large flock of 40 COMMON REDPOLLS and a couple of PINE SISKINS were at feeders.
Central Maine Good birds in Turner included 1 NORTHERN SHRIKE, 15 HORNED LARKS, 3 ROBINS, 100 COMMON REDPOLLS, and 5 CANADA GEESE.
CANADA GEESE and northward migrating AMERICAN CROWS were seen in Richmond.
A NORTHERN SHRIKE was near Aires Ridge in Freedom.
BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were seen in the apple tree across Rt. 202 from the Troy General Store.
In the 200 block of Brewer Lake Rd. in Orrington there was a count of 102 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS and not a single CEDAR among them. On the ice in the Penobscot River below the Joshua Chamberlain Bridge there were about 200 assorted GULLS with at least one first-winter GLAUCOUS GULL.
Northern Maine A BARRED OWL was in Houlton along with a PILEATED WOODPECKER, 1 NORTHERN CARDINAL, and 50 COMMON REDPOLLS. Twenty COMMON REDPOLLS and an albino COMMON RAVEN were in Fort Kent.
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