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    Back to a local hotspot this foggy/drizzly am: Northern Gannet flyover, a first for me. Bevy of Herring Gulls Double Crested Cormorant Alder Flycatcher Solitary Vireo/BH American Crow Black-Capped Chickadee Tree Swallow tending a nest box Gray Catbird American Redstart Veery, heard Cedar...
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    Downeast today for a drizzly/foggy coastal recce of the MCI NWR in attempts to start remedying my shorebird ineptitude. Brief detour to check out the top end of Pinkham Bay: 3 Great Blue Heron within minutes of arrival, 3 Bonaparte's Gull and a large bevy of, most likely, Common Tern, not...
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    Yesterday, foggy, light drizzle, pondside: Things are quieting down, definitely less bird activity this year over last (One gauge being the 65lbs+ of black oil seed last year vs 25 lbs this Winter/spring at the feeder). Ruffed Grouse drumming Barred Owl Song Sparrow Gray Catbird Alder or...
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    Out for a crepuscular patrol and heard a first ever here at the outer homestead American Bittern song emanating from the woods behind a postage stamp sized boggy sphagnum pool, slowly being colonized by Rushes, Sedges and Blue Flag Iris. Listened for 15 minutes while feeding the mosquito hoard...
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    A few pelagics while over the Grand Manan Banks yesterday: A dozen or so Greater Shearwater Oodles of Common Tern and Wilson's Storm Petrel Plenty of Atlantic Puffin Not so pelagic Herring Gull and Double Crested Cormorant 3 Humpback Whales and a Gray Seal
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    Local hotspot this am: Herring Gull Double-Crested Cormorant Broad-Winged Hawk Alder Flycatcher Solitary Vireo-Blue-Headed Blue Jay American Crow Black-Capped Chickadee Tree Swallow Starling Gray Catbird Veery, heard Lots of Cedar Waxwing American Goldfinch Song Sparrow Ovenbird Common...
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    Homestead yesterday: Usual suspects 4 Cedar Waxwings Barred Owl heard Broad-Winged Hawk heard Nighthawks overhead Out for a paddle, local pond: 6 Spotted Sandpiper 2 Common Loon 3 Painted Turtle A lot of N Pitcher Plant blooming
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    Fairly quiet pondside today: Heard Ruffed Grouse drumming Myrtle Warbler Goldfinch Chipping Sparrow Meadowbrook Field for 10min 2 Bobolink Willow Flycatcher heard Yellow Warbler spotted w/o binos at 200' no problem, looking very bright. American Crow Ermine with a mouse in its mouth.
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    Correction on the above 'White Trillium' It's actually Nodding Trillium, Trillium cernuum, not the supposedly extirpated T. Grandiflorum
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    5/26 Homestead: Ruffed Grouse Good viewing of a resident Ovenbird Ruby-Throated Hummingbird Blue Jay Red Breasted Nuthatch Black Capped Chickadee Eastern Phoebe Chipping Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Osprey flyover Hairy Woodpecker Meadowbrook field: Bobolink Yellow Warbler 1st year M Redstart Bald...
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    5/24-25/24 Up to the S end of the North Woods for a night this weekend, found a nice camp for an early morning start to stalking the American Bittern. They are common here in the boggy backwaters but often difficult to see due to access. A dusk recon down a nice mossy peat bog bordered woods...
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    Often hear the Winter Wren but rarely see the skulking, vociferous little dynamo. Caught it checking out an evening roost, I assume, in the hollow of a dead birch snag, it opted for elsewhere, but a nice long view after its complicated song. Ovenbirds are dominating the chorus back in the woods...
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    Up into the North Maine Woods, along the AWW for a few days: American Bittern- heard as I stopped to air down tires next to a bog, no luck getting a visual. Osprey, 4 Bald Eagle Saw Whet Owl heard 2 nights in camp, unseen. Raven nest with 2 juveniles looking about ready to fledge, and a busy...
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    Pondside lunch today...with poor pics: Bald Eagle flyover E Bluebird M American Redstart, FOY Black Throated Green E Phoebe Common Yellowthroat Song sparrow Goldfinch Purple Finch Lots of Myrtle Warbler No sign of yesterday's Black Throated Blue Warbler F Ruby Throated Hummingbird Spied FOY...
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    5/11/24 Stopped over to the not-so-local local Audubon Center for an early birdwalk, neither are my forte, early nor populous but nice to chat with some fellow birders. To start at the beginning of this Global Big Day, a la Cornell...at the homestead, I was out dumping coffee grounds into the...
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    Late morning jaunt over to a local coastal hotspot-- en route: 1 Bald Eagle flying, being harried by a pair of crows On site: Yellow Warbler, FOY Black & White Warbler Nashville Warbler Black Throated Green Warbler Pair of Northern Cardinal Downy woodpecker Song Sparrow Northern Parula 4...
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    Today's gray and raw pondside lunch was with: numerous Myrtle Warbler and 3 Eastern Phoebe hawking insects off the water's surface, while a pair Song Sparrow was accessing the same quarry from floating mats of last year's cattail, if not skulking at the water's rooty edge among the Spirea and...
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    Drizzly morning gave way to bright sun. Homestead: White Throated Sparrow Downy Woodpecker pair Eastern Phoebe Myrtle Warbler Black Throated Green Warbler Ovenbird Hermit Thrush Pondside: 4 Eastern Bluebirds Song Sparrow Eastern Wood Pewee Northern Parula Nashville Warbler Field Sparrow
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    Woken this am by the hoot of a Great Horned Owl perched on a dead limb of a White Pine outside the window, have only heard them here once in 30 years, not that they may not frequent more often but this is more Barred terrain. Saw it fly off with another calling further back in the woods. Nice of...
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    A late run out to a raised peat bog or heath, passing 2 perched Bald Eagle, streamside, no doubt after the alewives running. Trail to bog overlook: Northern Parula, FOY Black-Throated Green Warbler, heard but unseen. 2 Downy Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe At the bog proper: 2 Northern Harrier, I...
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    5/3: Immature Bald Eagle flyover Resident Broad-Winged Hawk Pine Warbler Tufter Titmouse Red-Breasted Nuthatch Hairy Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Blue-Headed Vireo Hermit Thrush Myrtle Warbler Dark-Eyed Junco Brown Creeper Black-Capped Chickadee Timberdoodle AKA Bogsucker, American Woodcock
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    5/1/24: Tree Sparrow Tree Swallow Nashville Warbler Myrtle Warbler Broad-Winged Hawk flyover with a vole in its talons Black Vulture These guys:
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    Morning homestead: Broad-Winged Hawk flew over with frog in its talons. Pine warbler, perched on the spindle of a table I was sitting at, looked to be eyeing my coffee... Dark-eyed Junco Hairy Woodpecker Blue Jay Eastern Phoebe Lunch by a small pond: Myrtle Warblers Nashville Warbler, FOY...
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    Red-Winged Blackbird, warily at the feeder. Blue Jay, White Throated Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Pair of Hermit Thrush, I gather the returned couple from the last few seasons, they have on occasion perched on the chair arm next to me for closer inspection. Hairy Woodpecker Blue Headed Vireo AKA...
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    Hermit Thrush Goldfinch White Throated Sparrow Hairy Woodpecker Black-capped Chickadee Red Breasted Nuthatch Dark eyed Junco Turkey Vulture Broad-Winged Hawk Palm Warbler Myrtle Warbler Pine Warbler Mourning Dove Robin Heard, not seen: Chipping Sparrow Winter Wren
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