Current Sightings (1 Viewer)

[VonMaunder]

Thought I'd throw a little life into the Maine page by randomly listing what I'm currently seeing, most will be from the homestead here in the woods. Feel free to add your own current sightings here.

Thus far this am:
Ruffed Grouse
Osprey
Broad-winged Hawk
Pine Warbler,
Purple Finch
Goldfinch
Downy woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Dark-eyed Junco
Hairy Woodpecker
Mourning Dove
Black-capped Chickadee
Robin
Hermit Thrush
Blue Jay
Chipping Sparrow

 

[VonMaunder]

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

 

[VonMaunder]

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 Solitary Vireo...Showed up yesterday.
Pine Warbler
Tufted Titmouse, present all Winter, a first here.
Black Capped Chickadee, setting up a nest in a dead pine snag.
Downy Woodpecker
Herring Gull flyover
Winter Wren, heard, unseen.
Northern Flicker
Eastern Phoebe
Chipmunk, rechecking the divots turned over by a nocturnal skunk.
ETA: Broad-Winged Hawk calling from back in around its nest site and....Blackflies.

 

[VonMaunder]

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
Red-Winged Blackbird
4 Mallards, likely some of the 12 ducklings from a pair last Spring
Purple Finch
Goldfinch
Tree Sparrow

 

[VonMaunder]

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:

 

[VonMaunder]

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

 

[VonMaunder]

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 distant female soaring, 1 Male close and hunting, nice long view of the latter.
4 Turkey Vulture
Unidentified Sparrows, flitting in/out of brushy cover

At the Audubon Center on the way back, from one spot 20 yds into the trail for 35 min:
Brown Creeper
Blue Headed Solitary Vireo
Black & White Warbler
Chestnut sided Warbler
Pine Warbler
Palm Warbler
White Breasted Nuthatch
Black Throated Green Warbler
Ovenbird, walking through an apparent buffet, taxed the near focus of the Zeiss
Purple Finch
Goldfinch
Blue Jay

 

[VonMaunder]

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 them to drop by.
Went down the road this afternoon to check on the alewife slaughter by Bald Eagle, found 7 perched streamside, probably waiting for an osprey to come in and do the dirty work
Ovenbird returned to the homestead last night.





Then off pondside in light rain to check for any ducks near the outflow and another alewive run. No ducks, perhaps due to this guy:

 

[VonMaunder]

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