Maine Birds

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May 18, morning - wetland in Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis County:

 

MALLARD and PIED-BILLED GREBE

OSPREY and BROAD-WINGED HAWK

GREATER YELLOWLEGS three

ROCK DOVE and MOURNING DOVE

BELTED KINGERFISHER two who were calling and having an aerial disagreement

HAIRY WOODPECKER

EASTERN KINGBIRD

BLUE JAY

AMERICAN CROW

TREE SWALLOW, BARN SWALLOW

AMERICAN ROBIN

GRAY CATBIRD

EUROPEAN STARLING

NORTHERN PARULA, YELLOW WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART

SAVANNAH SPARROW, SONG SPARROW

RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD, COMMON GRACKLE

BALTIMORE ORIOLE

AMERICAN GOLDFINCH

 

Bowden Road, Corinna - SOLITARY SANDPIPER

 

HUMMERS at our feeder!

 

        Carlton and Aloyse Larrabee (luvbrds), Dexter

 

 

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May 20, 5:30 pm - north on the Recreational Trail from Corinna, we went about 1 mile to where Corundel Lake is visible:

    COMMON LOON

    CHIMNEY SWIFT

    DOWNY WOODPECKER

    GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER

    WARBLING VIREO

    BLUE JAY

    AMERICAN CROW

    TREE SWALLOW

    BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEE

    AMERICAN ROBIN

    EUROPEAN STARLING

    YELLOW WARBLER

    COMMON YELLOWTHROAT pair

    SAVANNAH SPARROW

    SONG SPARROW

    BOBOLINK lots of these

    RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD

    COMMON GRACKLE

    RED CROSSBILL beautiful bird and one we don't see very often

    HOUSE SPARROW

 

    We're looking for the return of Purple Martins in Corinna but haven't seen any yet.

 

    Stan and Aloyse Larrabee (luvbrds), Dexter

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May 21, about 10:20 am - Rt 15 between Guilford and Dover-Foxcroft, Herring Brothers Meat Market in Guilford:

    I had a bird encounter unlike anything I've experienced before. It was raining hard so I decided not to go for a walk. I drove by the meat market and noticed 2 TURKEY VULTURES in the trees and decided to go back and check them out. I turned off my car and rolled the window down. While watching the Vultures, I was hearing a noise that sounded like "poing - poing." It had a vibrating quality to it something like metal on metal. I figured someone was outside on the property working on something and I wondered why they would want to be out in the rain. I brought my binoculars down and noticed a COMMON RAVEN on a lower, closer branch. It was the Raven that was making the noise! After a while, he tipped his head back a little and made a high, staccato noise that sounded like "poink, poink, poink" sometimes adding a lower- pitched fourth "poink." Then occasionally he would move his wings a little away from his body and lower his head to produce a low "rattle." In between these vocalizations he would make some soft, more traditional "awks." I watched and listened for about 45 minutes. He started closing his eyes and went silent. I left him to his musings in the rain. Fascinating and comical; I had never seen a bird make non-bird sounds before!

 

            Aloyse Larrabee, Dexter