sandee@fsu.scri.fsu.edu (Daan Sandee) (06/01/90)
Date: Thu, 31 May 90 14:57:29 EDT
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Subject: Maine RBA - for 5-29-90
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Date: 31 May 90 14:02:54 EDT
You have reached the bird alert sponsored by Maine Audubon
in Falmouth on Tuesday May 29.
Migration continues, although the majority of birds have
arrived by now and many species are already preoccupied with the
task of raising young. With the trees almost fully leaved out,
the warbler search becomes more difficult. To date 26 species of
warblers have been reported, with no new ones this week, but
several reports of MOURNING WARBLERS. All of the flycatchers are
back, with EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE and WILLOW FLYCATCHER just
arriving.
In the Portland area:
Activity continues at Evergreen Cemetary. Reported this
week: 18 species of warblers, including one MOURNING WARBLER.
All the flycatchers, including OLIVE-SIDED, WILLOW, YELLOW-
BELLIED, ALDER, and EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE; PHILADELPHIA, RED-EYED,
and WARBLING VIREOS; 12 CEDAR WAXWINGS, BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHERS,
a GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, RED CROSSBILLS, and FISH CROWS.
At Capisic Pond in Portland, a first-year male SUMMER
TANAGER was present for several days last week, last seen on the
27th. Also reported in that area: a male ORCHARD ORIOLE, a
BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER, ROUGH-WINGED
SWALLOW, GREEN-BACKED HERON, BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON, and a
WOOD DUCK with three young.
In Scarborough on Eastern Road in the marsh there was a
MOURNING WARBLER and a BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO. On Jasper Road off
Route 9 there were 16 species of warblers, BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS,
LEAST, ALDER, and YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERS, a lingering RUBY-
CROWNED KINGLET, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, and the following thrushes:
GRAY-CHEEKED, SWAINSON'S, HERMIT, WOOD THRUSH, and VEERY.
At Pine Point behind the Lobster Co-op there were RUDDY
TURNSTONES, 20 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 15 SEMI-PALMATED PLOVERS,
SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPERS, LEAST and COMMON TERNS, and on the 24th
a flock of 300+ BRANT.
There were PURPLE MARTINS at the corner of Route 77 and
Higgins Beach Road.
Elsewhere in the state: small numbers of shorebirds are
being seen at Seapoint Beach in Kittery. Among them, LEAST
SANDPIPERS, SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPERS, SEMI-PALMATED PLOVERS,
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, and SPOTTED SANDPIPERS.
Miscellaneous reports of EASTERN BLUEBIRD nesting include a
pair in the Limerick area with five eggs in the nest, a pair on
Route 9A in Wells, and two more pairs in Bridgton.
In Wells there was a MOURNING WARBLER.
Birds seen at the Kennebunk Plains this weekend include a
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW, FIELD AND VESPER SPARROWS, PRAIRIE WARBLERS,
and BOBOLINKS.
On Monhegan Island there were 21 species of warblers,
including one MOURNING WARBLER, a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, nine
LINCOLN'S SPARROWS, WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS, and 100 RED
PHALAROPES seen from the mail boat.
In the Bar Harbor area RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRDS are
numerous, and a pair of PEREGRINE FALCONS are back in the
Precipice Trail area of Acadia National Park.
Up in Fort Kent there are EASTERN WOOD-PEWEES, LINCOLN'S
SPARROWS, PHILADELPHIA and RED-EYED VIREOS, and a pair of
PILEATED WOODPECKERS that now have young.
Numbers of warblers are still moving through the Houlton
area, as well as SOLITARY, RED-EYED, and WARBLING VIREOS, PURPLE
MARTINS, and OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHERS.
At Lake Messalonskee in the Belgrade Lakes area there were
10 BLACK TERNS, an AMERICAN BITTERN, a PIED-BILLED GREBE, CLIFF
SWALLOWS, and PURPLE MARTINS.
And finally in Turner, returning this week, ALDER and
YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERS and an EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE.
Maine Audubon sponsors free bird walks each Saturday morning
in May and June, and this weekend we will be going to Biddeford
Pool. Meet us at 7 am on Saturday by Hattie's Deli, rain or
shine.
This tape will next be updated on Tuesday, June 5.