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Leslie Clapp
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We canoed McHeard Brook yesterday (just before Blue Hill transfer station) and had a very pleasant morning paddle. We saw: 20 Palm Warblers, lots of Swamp Sparrows, heard Winter Wren and first Yellow-rumped Warbler. Ducks of various species, kingfishers, tree swallows, osprey (3 active nests), eagle, beaver, flicker, and the usual marsh species were all present.
At our yard in town we had singing Ruby-crowned Kinglet, LOTS of sparrows (song, chipping, white-throated) Titmice are gathering nesting material. First big bumblebees out flying and we've had honey bees for 10 days or so on the hundreds of crocus. The willows are blooming now so native bees are starting to be active as well.
21 April 2008 - Blue Hill
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Peter LaFreniere
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I had a clear view of a ground foraging palm warbler with its characteristic tail bobbing for several minutes until it flew into a nearby bush.
20 April 2008 - along the road below Peter's Inn (7 chimneys)
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David Stearns
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Add a spot for reliable brown-headed cowbirds: my house in the woods. We had a pair this morning! Maybe the swampy woods with dying spruces attracted them. Also, on the peninsula this weekend: hermit thrush, winter wren, y-bellied sapsucker, osprey.
20 April 2008 - Blue Hill
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David Stearns
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Liffey Thorpe found ruby crowned kinglets in the tree next to our classrooms at GSA. Several -- we think.
18 April 2008 - Blue Hill
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David Stearns
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Today a merlin was being chased through the Blue Hill town park by a herring gull. Yesterday a half-dozen palm warblers were feeding along the Mill Stream marsh at the end of Mattson Lane.
17 April 2008 - Blue Hill
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Chip Moseley
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Sedgwick-- Great Meadow
8 WILSON SNIPE
5 TURKEY VULTURES
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Brooksville-- South end of the Bagaduce
PIED-BILLED GREBE
GLOSSY IBIS (first one that I have ever seen in Hancock County)
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Brooksville--small marsh on the south side of Rt. 176
RUSTY BLACKBIRD
15 April 2008 - Blue Hill Peninsula
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David Stearns
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We were just watching 4 fox sparrows enjoying the droppings underneath our feeder (more fox sparrows than we've ever seen here) when a very interesting creature was spotted in the woods. It was very hard to get a bead on it for a while: coon? bear cub? woodchuck? jaguar (our five year old's suggestion). Then it came right toward the house and went over to investigate the suet feeder before heading away. It was a gorgeous fisher.
13 April 2008 - Blue Hill
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Tom Bjorkman
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A check of upper Blue Hill Bay in the last two days indicate that Common Eider and Long-tailed Duck are down substantially. Many Horned and Red-necked Grebe, mostly in breeding plumage. Still small numbers of Bufflehead, Common Goldeneye, and Red-breasted Merganser. 12 White-winger Scoter still hanging out off the So. Blue Hill Wharf. Common Loons in both breeding and winter plumage.
The most common bird on the water in my count was Red-necked Grebe (19).
12 April 2008 - Upper Blue Hill Bay
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Ken Crowell
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Yesterday morning, April 4, a Junco was singing. There were 5 under the feeder yesterday. A week before we had our first Song Sparrow, followed by a Fox Sparrow and then 2-3 most of the week. Two weeks ago a flock of wild turkey ventured down our road -- not turkey habitat here in the spruce forest!
Lee Fay says a loon in Burnt Cove is in breeding plumage. Long-tailed ducks were still yodeling off our shore last week. Not sure whether they have since left.
There have been many reports of owls over the winter, including a Snowy on Little Deer Isle earlier.
Mike Warr of Stonington writes: A Barred Owl hung around for
about a week, the flock of Pine Grosbeaks, about 18
strong gorged at our feeders for almost three
months,and this morning we were visited by a pair of
female White-Winged Crossbills,
5 April 2008 - Deer Isle
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David Stearns
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My impatience at another week of forecasts for 35 degree weather and having woken up this morning to 8 degrees on the thermometer was tempered today by the sound of a robin (finally!) as I went out to dig some of my last remaining pieces of firewood out of the frozen snowbank, and by the cheery sound of a red-winged blackbird (finally!) from the trees above GSA.
24 March 2008 - Blue Hill
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