- RBA
* Maine
* Southcoastal
* September 21, 2006
* MESC0608.21
- Species Mentioned:
***WESTERN REEF-HERON***
*YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT HERON*
TRICOLORED HERON
Broad-winged Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Virginia Rail
COMMON MOORHEN
American Golden-Plover
AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER
Willet
“WESTERN” WILLET
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
WESTERN SANDPIPER
White-rumped Sandpiper
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER
Dunlin
Pectoral Sandpiper
STILT SANDPIPER
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
LITTLE GULL
FORSTER’S TERN
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Philadelphia Vireo
Northern Parula
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Mourning Warbler
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
LARK SPARROW
Dark-eyed Junco
DICKCISSEL
Rusty Blackbird
- Transcript:
Hotline: Southcoastal Maine Rare Bird Alert
(Internet Only).
Date: Thursday, September 21, 2006 compiled at:
5:00pm.
To report: (207) 846-8002, or
birds@yarmouthbirds.com.
Coverage: York, Cumberland, and Sagadahoc
Counties.
This is Derek Lovitch welcoming you to the
Southcoastal Maine Rare Bird Alert, sponsored by the
Wild Bird Center of Yarmouth at 500 Route One,
Yarmouth, Maine. All locations not found in A
Birder’s Guide to Maine by Pierson, et al. are
referenced to the Delorme Maine Atlas. Transcripts of
current and past reports can be found at
www.yarmouthbirds.com.
Weather Summary: High pressure and above-normal temps
dominated Fri. through Tues. Clear and calm nights
allowed for good passerine flights nightly through
Mon. A stronger southerly flow increased on Mon, with
temps in the low 80’s inland (10+ degrees above
normal). Rain fell Tues. night ahead of cold front
that ushered in cooler air on NW winds. Clearing
skies and light NW winds produced a significant
passerine flight for Thurs. am.
The ***WESTERN REEF-HERON*** continues in New
Hampshire through at least 6:00pm on Wednesday the
20th. See www.yarmouthbirds.com/bird_news.asp for
current updates and more information, and please
continue to send all reports to
birds@yarmouthbirds.com.
A juvenile *YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT HERON* was noted on
Stratton Island on 9/16. Volunteers and a biologist
there that day, clearing Oriental Bittersweet, also
noted a juvenile COMMON MOORHEN, two AMERICAN
GOLDEN-PLOVERS, one AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER, and a
MOURNING WARBLER.
Two TRICOLORED HERONS continue in the salt pannes on
the east side of the north end of the Eastern Road
Trail through Scarborough Marsh through the 20th.
A good hawk flight on 9/21 included over 400 birds,
mostly BROAD-WINGED HAWKS over Mt. Agamenticus in York
by 11:00am, and 107 birds – including 96 Broad-wings
and one PEREGRINE FALCON over the Wild Bird Center of
Yarmouth between 10:00am and 11:30am.
A VIRGINIA RAIL was heard at Portland’s Capisic Pond
Park on 9/15.
Biddeford Pool Beach again hosted a significant
concentration of shorebirds, with 1-2 AMERICAN
GOLDEN-PLOVERS, 40 DUNLIN, and a very impressive 75
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS (5 juvenile) joining 900+
SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS and SANDERLING all on 9/16,
while two WESTERN SANDPIPERS were noted there the next
day.
Three WILLET, at least one of which was a “WESTERN,”
were in Jones Creek in Scarborough Marsh on the 18th.
Two BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS were at Biddeford Pool on 9/17.
11 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS on 9/18 increased to 14 on
9/20 in the in the salt pannes on the east side of the
north end of the Eastern Road Trail through
Scarborough Marsh. STILT SANDPIPERS continue their
impressive showing this fall, with one at Sanford
Sewerage (Delorme Map 2: C-4) on 9/18 and 2 there the
next day; 7 in the Eastern Rd pannes on the 18th, with
8 there the next day. Meanwhile, one 1st winter
WILSON’S PHALAROPE was in the pannes on the 9/18 and
9/20 as well.
A basic-plumaged adult LITTLE GULL was spotted in
Pepperrell Cove in Kittery Point on the 15th, along
with a 1st cycle FORSTER’S TERN.
Single RED-BELLIED WOODPECKERS continue in yards in
Windham, and on Cousin’s Island in Yarmouth this week.
A PHILADELPHIA VIREO was in Portland’s Evergreen
Cemetery on the 15th.
Another PHILLY V and 16 species of warblers led by
BLACK-THROATED GREENS, NORTHERN PARULA, and BLACKPOLL
WARBLERS passed over and through Yarmouth’s Sandy
Point Beach on Cousin’s Island in the morning of the
21st. A late-ish RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD and an
early-ish DARK-EYED JUNCO were also spotted there that
day as well the a 600+ bird flight.
A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was found in Capisic Pond Park
in Portland on 9/15.
A LARK SPARROW was reported from Hill’s Beach, near
Goldwaith Road, in Biddeford (Delorme Map 3: C-3) on
9/16 and 18.
Single DICKCISSELS were at Portland’s Dragon Field
(behind the Quarry Run Dogpark at the intersection on
Ocean and Presumpscot; Delorme Map 72: C-3) on 9/15,
and at the Sanford Sewerage facility on 9/19.
Wainright Farm Recreation Area in South Portland (off
of Highland Rd; Delorme Map 3: A-4) hosted 4 RUSTY
BLACKBIRDS on the 17th.
- End transcript
_______________________________________________________________________
Jeannette and Derek Lovitch
Wild Bird Center of Yarmouth
500 Route One, Yarmouth, Maine
207-846-8002
www.yarmouthbirds.com
_______________________________________________________________________
* Maine
* Southcoastal
* September 21, 2006
* MESC0608.21
- Species Mentioned:
***WESTERN REEF-HERON***
*YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT HERON*
TRICOLORED HERON
Broad-winged Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Virginia Rail
COMMON MOORHEN
American Golden-Plover
AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER
Willet
“WESTERN” WILLET
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
WESTERN SANDPIPER
White-rumped Sandpiper
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER
Dunlin
Pectoral Sandpiper
STILT SANDPIPER
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
LITTLE GULL
FORSTER’S TERN
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Philadelphia Vireo
Northern Parula
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Mourning Warbler
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
LARK SPARROW
Dark-eyed Junco
DICKCISSEL
Rusty Blackbird
- Transcript:
Hotline: Southcoastal Maine Rare Bird Alert
(Internet Only).
Date: Thursday, September 21, 2006 compiled at:
5:00pm.
To report: (207) 846-8002, or
birds@yarmouthbirds.com.
Coverage: York, Cumberland, and Sagadahoc
Counties.
This is Derek Lovitch welcoming you to the
Southcoastal Maine Rare Bird Alert, sponsored by the
Wild Bird Center of Yarmouth at 500 Route One,
Yarmouth, Maine. All locations not found in A
Birder’s Guide to Maine by Pierson, et al. are
referenced to the Delorme Maine Atlas. Transcripts of
current and past reports can be found at
www.yarmouthbirds.com.
Weather Summary: High pressure and above-normal temps
dominated Fri. through Tues. Clear and calm nights
allowed for good passerine flights nightly through
Mon. A stronger southerly flow increased on Mon, with
temps in the low 80’s inland (10+ degrees above
normal). Rain fell Tues. night ahead of cold front
that ushered in cooler air on NW winds. Clearing
skies and light NW winds produced a significant
passerine flight for Thurs. am.
The ***WESTERN REEF-HERON*** continues in New
Hampshire through at least 6:00pm on Wednesday the
20th. See www.yarmouthbirds.com/bird_news.asp for
current updates and more information, and please
continue to send all reports to
birds@yarmouthbirds.com.
A juvenile *YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT HERON* was noted on
Stratton Island on 9/16. Volunteers and a biologist
there that day, clearing Oriental Bittersweet, also
noted a juvenile COMMON MOORHEN, two AMERICAN
GOLDEN-PLOVERS, one AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER, and a
MOURNING WARBLER.
Two TRICOLORED HERONS continue in the salt pannes on
the east side of the north end of the Eastern Road
Trail through Scarborough Marsh through the 20th.
A good hawk flight on 9/21 included over 400 birds,
mostly BROAD-WINGED HAWKS over Mt. Agamenticus in York
by 11:00am, and 107 birds – including 96 Broad-wings
and one PEREGRINE FALCON over the Wild Bird Center of
Yarmouth between 10:00am and 11:30am.
A VIRGINIA RAIL was heard at Portland’s Capisic Pond
Park on 9/15.
Biddeford Pool Beach again hosted a significant
concentration of shorebirds, with 1-2 AMERICAN
GOLDEN-PLOVERS, 40 DUNLIN, and a very impressive 75
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS (5 juvenile) joining 900+
SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS and SANDERLING all on 9/16,
while two WESTERN SANDPIPERS were noted there the next
day.
Three WILLET, at least one of which was a “WESTERN,”
were in Jones Creek in Scarborough Marsh on the 18th.
Two BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS were at Biddeford Pool on 9/17.
11 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS on 9/18 increased to 14 on
9/20 in the in the salt pannes on the east side of the
north end of the Eastern Road Trail through
Scarborough Marsh. STILT SANDPIPERS continue their
impressive showing this fall, with one at Sanford
Sewerage (Delorme Map 2: C-4) on 9/18 and 2 there the
next day; 7 in the Eastern Rd pannes on the 18th, with
8 there the next day. Meanwhile, one 1st winter
WILSON’S PHALAROPE was in the pannes on the 9/18 and
9/20 as well.
A basic-plumaged adult LITTLE GULL was spotted in
Pepperrell Cove in Kittery Point on the 15th, along
with a 1st cycle FORSTER’S TERN.
Single RED-BELLIED WOODPECKERS continue in yards in
Windham, and on Cousin’s Island in Yarmouth this week.
A PHILADELPHIA VIREO was in Portland’s Evergreen
Cemetery on the 15th.
Another PHILLY V and 16 species of warblers led by
BLACK-THROATED GREENS, NORTHERN PARULA, and BLACKPOLL
WARBLERS passed over and through Yarmouth’s Sandy
Point Beach on Cousin’s Island in the morning of the
21st. A late-ish RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD and an
early-ish DARK-EYED JUNCO were also spotted there that
day as well the a 600+ bird flight.
A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was found in Capisic Pond Park
in Portland on 9/15.
A LARK SPARROW was reported from Hill’s Beach, near
Goldwaith Road, in Biddeford (Delorme Map 3: C-3) on
9/16 and 18.
Single DICKCISSELS were at Portland’s Dragon Field
(behind the Quarry Run Dogpark at the intersection on
Ocean and Presumpscot; Delorme Map 72: C-3) on 9/15,
and at the Sanford Sewerage facility on 9/19.
Wainright Farm Recreation Area in South Portland (off
of Highland Rd; Delorme Map 3: A-4) hosted 4 RUSTY
BLACKBIRDS on the 17th.
- End transcript
_______________________________________________________________________
Jeannette and Derek Lovitch
Wild Bird Center of Yarmouth
500 Route One, Yarmouth, Maine
207-846-8002
www.yarmouthbirds.com
_______________________________________________________________________