Maine (Statewide) RBA
January 15, 2010
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Name: Maine Audubon Rare Bird Alert
Reporting Period: January 8 - 15, 2010
Area: State of Maine
Compilers: Eric Hynes, Stella Walsh
Of Special Note
Top birds this week are: KING EIDER, LONG-EARED OWL, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER,
and PAINTED BUNTING.
Other standouts include: SNOW GOOSE, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, THICK-BILLED MURRE,
BLACK-HEADED GULL, LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE,
BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER, BOHEMIAN WAXWING, and COMMON REDPOLL.
There are a fair number of sites in southern Maine where PEREGRINE FALCONS and
BARROW'S GOLDENEYE have become reliable this season.
Quite a few NORTHERN SHRIKES were reported in southern and coastal Maine this
week, many hunting around backyard feeding stations.
Several hearty BELTED KINGFISHERS are sticking it out as far up the coast as
Penobscot Bay.
York County
A drake KING EIDER was in Wells Harbor on January 10, easily visible from the
town pier.
A pair of GADWALL was seen from Beach Street in Ogunquit on January 10.
A BALTIMORE ORIOLE was found among House Sparrows in a thicket at the corner of
Route 35 and Boulder Road in Kennebunk on January 9.
A FIELD SPARROW was seen near the corner of Thompson Road and Curtis Road in
Arundel on the 9th.
On January 9, a LINCOLN'S SPARROW was seen at Stoneridge Farm on Curtis Road in
Arundel.
Last weekend, a SNOW GOOSE was on the golf course bordering East Point Sanctuary
in Biddeford Pool.
A ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was seen flying over Wood Island off East Point Sanctuary in
Biddeford Pool.
A LONG-EARED OWL was found on a wooded edge of the salt marsh on the University
of New England's Biddeford campus on January 13.
Scarce this year, two COMMON REDPOLLS were seen at feeders in Camp Ellis on the
8th.
Greater Portland
The YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER at 51 Carroll Street in Falmouth was seen as
recently as January 15. Your best chance to catch it visiting the feeders is
between 0700 and 0730.
An adult drake KING EIDER continues to visit Dyer Point in Cape Elizabeth
intermittently.
A WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW was seen at Capisic Pond in Portland midweek.
A drake GREEN-WINGED TEAL was at Back Cove in Portland on January 10.
An AMERICAN WIGEON joined two GREEN-WINGED TEAL on Collins Pond in North Windham
on the 14th.
A YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER and a SWAMP SPARROW were seen at Maine Audubon's
Gilsland Farm on January 13.
An adult NORTHERN GOSHAWK was photographed in a Buxton yard on the 14th.
Kennebec River Valley (Augusta-Waterville)
Three BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were with 100 Cedar Waxwings on the Colby College campus
in Waterville briefly last weekend.
Midcoast
A THICK-BILLED MURRE was spotted on the 15th from Head Beach on Hermit Island in
Phippsburg.
A single LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL continues on the Kennebec River in downtown
Bath. It can be viewed on the ice from the boat ramp. It was joined by a
GLAUCOUS GULL on the 15th while three ICELAND GULLS were teased out of the
hundreds of gulls at the Bath Landfill.
Highlights at Cape Small on January 10 included two NORTHERN PINTAILS, an
ICELAND GULL, and two BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS.
A BOHEMIAN WAXWING was with Cedar Waxwings on Chapman Street, near the
intersection with Church Street, in Damariscotta on January 14.
A FOX SPARROW came to a feeder in Bremen on January 12.
Forty-nine BALD EAGLES are congregating behind Mainely Poultry on Route 1 in
Warren.
Penobscot Bay
Two BLACK-HEADED GULLS and three ICELAND GULLS were found in Owls Head Harbor on
the 15th while several BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES were flying farther out.
Two DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS were at the end of the breakwater in Rockland
Harbor on January 8.
The highlight on the ferry crossing from Rockland to Vinalhaven on January 8 was
22 BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES.
Carvers Pond on Vinalhaven Island hosted a drake AMERICAN WIGEON on January 8.
Another AMERICAN WIGEON is on the St. George River in Warren Village near the
Main Street Bridge.
Two BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were mixed in with a flock of Cedar Waxwings and American
Robins along Beech Hill Road in Rockport on January 10.
A dark morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was spotted on January 10 and 13, in the fields
between the Hawes Bridge Road and North Searsport Road in Prospect.
A lingering GREAT BLUE HERON can still be found at Weskeag Marsh in South
Thomaston.
Downeast
A PAINTED BUNTING continues to visit a feeder in a private yard at least through
January 10.
A BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER was found on the trail to Hunter's Beach in Seal
Harbor on Mount Desert Island, about a tenth of a mile below the log bridge as
you descend toward the beach.
Western Mountains
An adult NORTHERN GOSHAWK passed through a Fryeburg backyard on January 11.
A flock of 60+ BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS was at Sugarloaf Mountain on the 12th.
On January 12, a BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER was photographed outside
Dover-Foxcroft.
Eric Hynes
Gilsland Farm Naturalist /
Adult Education Program Coordinator
Maine Audubon
20 Gilsland Farm Road
Falmouth, ME 04105
207-781-2330 ext. 237
ehynes@maineaudubon.org
www.maineaudubon.org
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