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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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Chip Moseley
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A 1 mile walk down the beach at high tide. 3:00 -5:00 PM.
4 AMERICAN BLACK DUCK
2 MALLARD
24 COMMON EIDER
1 SURF SCOTER
5 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER
54 LONG-TAILED DUCK
4 COMMON GOLDENEYE
2 RED-BREASTED MERGANSER
10 COMMON LOON
33 HORNED GREBE
36 RED-NECKED GREBE
2 GREAT CORMORANT
X GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL
1 BLACK GUILLEMOT
10 AMERICAN CROW
Comments: The LTDU, COLO, RNGR, and HOGR were in various degrees of changing over to their alternate plumages. The BLGU and RBME were in alternate plumage. Without any doubt the birds that "stole the show" were a pair of GREAT CORMORANT that were very close and viewed through the spotting scope. They were in high breeding plumage and what a dapper couple. I tried to digiscope this pair but "no luck".
11 March 2008 - Brooklin
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Tom Bjorkman
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Some highlights from a check of the upper Blue Hill Bay this morning:
66 Red-necked Grebe in the deep water off the So. Blue Hill Wharf -- the most I have seen in one place in the upper Bay.
15 White-winged Scoters closer to shore to the South of the Wharf -- the highest number so far this year.
1200 Common Eider and 1 Barrow's Goldeneye in the inner Harbor off the Golf Course.
8 March 2008 - Blue Hill Bay
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Rebekah Raye & Ken Woisard
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I wanted to report that our Goose laid her first egg of the season, not a gander which was reported earlier,:} also a group of 10 turkeys were seen at Peter's Cove at low tide, it seemed odd to see them there on the rocks and shore line.
19 February 2008 - East Blue Hill
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Chip Moseley
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11:30 AM -2:30 PM. The largest number of Horned Grebes that I have seen at this location at this time of the years. Low tide. Southwest wind @20 mph. Cloudy. Temp.33F. Walked 1 mile along the shoreline.
American Black Duck 6
Common Eider 65
Long-tailed Duck 15
Common Goldeneye 26
Red-breasted Merganser 10
Common Loon 14
Horned Grebe 118
Herring Gull 10
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Thick-billed Murre 1
American Crow 11
17 February 2008 - Brooklin
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Chip Moseley
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The 11th. Annual Great Backyard Bird Count starts today. Simply go to: http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/ and enter your data. You may want to copy and paste to this site as I have done?
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Observation Date: FEB 15, 2008
Start Time: 6:45 AM
Total Birding Time: 2 hours
Party Size: 1
Skill: excellent
Weather: excellent
Snow Depth: 4 - 6 in (10.2 - 15.2 cm)
Habitat(s):
agricultural
Number of Species: 9
All Reported: yes
Checklist:
Mourning Dove - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 2
Hairy Woodpecker - 1
Blue Jay - 9
American Crow - 1
Black-capped Chickadee - 6
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1
American Tree Sparrow - 11
Pine Grosbeak - 3
15 February 2008 - Sedgwick
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