From: "Linda Woodard" <lwoodard@MAINEAUDUBON.ORG>

To: <BIRDEAST@listserv.arizona.edu>

Subject: [BIRDEAST] Maine Bird Alert January 21, 2003

Date: Friday, January 24, 2003 2:26 PM

 

Name: Maine Audubon Bird Alert

 

Date: January 21, 2003

 

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 GYRFALCON was reported being chased by a COMMON RAVEN near Brunswick High School.  This bird was not relocated.

 

A BALTIMORE ORIOLE was seen in Readfield.

 

The GRAY CATBIRD continues to be present on Ocean Avenue in Portland.

 

A COMMON GRACKLE was seen in Dixmont, along with a NORTHERN GOSHAWK.

 

AMERICAN ROBINS have been reported around southern and western Maine.

 

York County

 

Last Saturday, the York County Audubon Society's field trip found 39 species. Included in the list were KING EIDER and 2 CAROLINA WRENS. HARLEQUIN DUCKS were present from Marginal Way to both Cliff House and Nubble Light. SHARP-SHINNED and RED-TAILED HAWKS were in York.

 

A PEREGRINE FALCON, 12 HORNED LARKS, and a KING EIDER were present in Wells Harbor.

 

Nineteen HORNED LARKS were at Gooserocks Beach in Kennebunk.

 

At Biddeford Pool this week there were SHORT-EARED OWL, 8 DUNLIN, PURPLE SANDPIPERS, and 75 CANADA GEESE.

 

 Upstream from the Saco Yacht Club there were COMMON MERGANSERS, SHARP-SHINNED HAWK, and BALD EAGLE. A BROWN CREEPER, COOPER'S HAWK, and CEDAR WAXWINGS were elsewhere in Saco. In Laurel Hill Cemetery in Saco there were and 20 CEDAR WAXWINGS.

 

Greater Portland and western Maine

 

A BARRED OWL was at Piper Shores in Scarborough. Two RED-TAILED HAWKS were near Anjon's Restaurant along Route 1 in Scarborough. Five EASTERN BLUEBIRDS were near Grondin Pond in Scarborough.

 

Twenty three BRANT and 1 male HARLEQUIN were seen at Two Lights. Three HORNED LARKS and 15 BRANT were at Kettle Cove in Cape Elizabeth. A ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was flying over Purpoodock Golf Course in Cape Elizabeth. Near Broad Cove in Cape Elizabeth there were RED-TAILED HAWK, NORTHERN GOSHAWK, and ICELAND GULL.

 

An ICELAND GULL was at Willard Beach in South Portland.

 

Two COOPER'S and 2 RED-TAILED HAWKS were at Back Cove in Portland.

 

A BALD EAGLE continues to be seen over Maine Audubon's Gilsland Farm in Falmouth.

 

A COOPER'S HAWK was chasing Rock Doves on the Gorham campus of the University of Southern Maine.

 

At the Portland Fish Pier there was a GLAUCOUS and an ICELAND GULL.

 

A NORTHERN SHRIKE was at Maine Audubon's Mast Landing Sanctuary in Freeport. Six pair of BARROW'S GOLDENEYES were in South Freeport Harbor.

 

Two EVENING GROSBEAKS were in Bridgeton.

 

In Raymond there was a BALD EAGLE.

 

A NORTHERN GOSHAWK was in Wilton.

 

Central Maine

 

A NORTHERN FLICKER was seen in Auburn.

 

A COOPER'S HAWK was in Turner.

 

Six BALD EAGLES were near the ice fishing shacks on Plymouth Pond.

 

A NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL was seen in Carmel.

 

Twelve CEDAR WAXWINGS were found in Etna.

 

A BARRED OWL visited a Holden feeder.

 

A PEREGRINE FALCON took a Mourning Dove at a Hampden feeder.

 

A SHORT-EARED OWL was seen in Bangor.

 

BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were seen about a mile north of Patten.

 

A TUFTED TITMOUSE was near Old Town.

 

Northern Maine

 

In Fort Kent this week there were 2 PINE GROSBEAKS and 50 AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES.

 

Midcoast

 

Four BALD EAGLES were feeding on a CANADA GOOSE on the Kennebec River in Georgetown.

 

Six EASTERN BLUEBIRDS were seen in Damariscotta.

 

On Monhegan there were CEDAR WAXWINGS, a SNOWY OWL, 1 WINTER WREN, 1 NORTHERN GOSHAWK, and a BALD EAGLE.

 

Eastern Maine

 

Sixty EVENING GROSBEAKS and 1 NORTHERN SHRIKE were seen at feeders.

along Upper Codyville Road in Topsfield

 

 

 

Linda Woodard

Maine Audubon

20 Gilsland Farm Rd

Falmouth, Maine

207-781-2330 ext. 213

 

 

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