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Rebekah Raye
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a gray catbird fooled me thinking there was a kitty hidden in the low shrubs in the early evening. Also as a new Hummingbird feeder owner,are the sugar ants just a common occurrence? I do clean and refill every other day.
29 May 2002 - East Blue Hill
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Liffey Thorpe
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Male Rose-breasted Grosbeak carolling away in my neighbor's front yard yesterday.
23 May 2002 - Brooksville, Coastal Road
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Posted from email by KenW
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It was suggested that I share the recipe for hummingbird feeders:
Mix sugar and water 1:4 (1c sugar, 4 c water); boil 2 minutes. Cool. Store extra in frig. Do not add color, honey, or whiskey -- even for coastal weather.
16 May 2002
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Louis Bevier
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i saw my ruby-throat thurs in downtown blue hill on water street and it was exhibiting behavior unknown to me before: it was repeatedly and continuosly swooping down low over a tangle of brambles at a rather high rate of speed; it did this for some 5 minutes, rested, and then continued for another minute before zooming off in the direction of the hospital. (Was this a territorial display? Was there a rival male or blase' female in the bushes??)
i had a FEMALE baltimore oriole, yellow and black-throated green warblers in my main street back yard and common terns fishing and chasing potential mates around the area of the blue hill in-town wharf.
bob myers
Interesting seasonal dimension to Gnatcatcher movements:
The report of Blue-gray Gnatcatcher in Brooksville on May 10th sounds credible by the limited description and is not too exceptional. Gnatcatchers typically return to New England breeding areas by mid to late April. The species expanded its range northward into New England, including to s. Maine over the 20th century (most in the latter half of the 1900s with the exception of an unusual breeding record in Maine from 1929). This expansion was/is typically presaged by spring overshoots; these occur annually to Nova Scotia, for example, with the earliest there about 23 April. Interestingly, there is also a mild reverse migration noted in this species at the northern extreme, with occurrences north of the breeding range relatively frequent in autumn.
thanks for relaying the report,
16 May 2002
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