Double-crested Cormorant---big movement today?

[Charles Duncan]

Did anyone else in Cumberland County or elsewhere tune in a huge movement of cormorants this morning?  

I saw several hundred in a few loose flocks flying northward above the Fore River, Portland, about 7:15 this morning.  When I got to Grondin Pond in SoPo, there were 1,000 +/- there in a dense, long string on the water.  And as I was leaving perhaps another 500 dropped in from the northwest.

The only comparable numbers in Vickery (2020) are "2,500 flying north off Biddeford, 28 Apr 1985 (P. Cross)" and "~1,000 at Sewall Beach, 2 May 1993 (PDV, eBird)."

--Charles

[Dan Gardoqui]

Charles, 

In about 20 mins at Cape Neddick Light I saw over 200 cormorants flying north today.

Dan Gardoqui

York, Maine

[Nancy Houlihan]

Yes, I had more than 100 roosting and feeding on a very small pond in West Falmouth.  Have never seen such numbers at that location in 50 years.

Nancy Houlihan

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[Lewis Holmes]

At least 500 cormorants seen from Cousins Island bridge in long flock sitting on calm surface of water.

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[Bill Bunn]

I had close to 300 at Back Cove in Portland this morning!

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[Linda Thompson]

I saw a large group on the New Meadows River, probably 50-100. I Couldn’t stop to count as I was driving Rte 1. 

Linda Thompson

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[Sandi]

Nowhere near your numbers, Charles, but on Tuesday night around 7 p.m. in Orono, I observed a flock of about 400 double-crested cormorants in a single huge V-formation, winging their way northward following the Penobscot River.  Right behind them was a flock of about 50 scoter sp. in a more ragged V-formation.