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Liffey Thorpe
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Heard LOONS early this morning. In the past couple days: HERMIT THRUSH, YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS (lots of them!), BLACK & WHITE WARBLERS (2 fighting males plus, I think, one female), PALM WARBLERS, NORTHERN PARULAS, YELLOW WARBLER (heard, not seen), CHIPPING SPARROWS, PINE SISKINS, GOLDFINCH, GB HERON (singleton, here daily), KINGFISHER, PURPLE FINCH, and lots of usual suspects. No hummers yet despite freshly filled feeders.
Male COWBIRD at my mother's house in Blue Hill; also, a SHARP-SHINNED HAWK swooped in front of the car as I was pulling into her driveway, and perched for several moments on the (empty, of course) platform feeder.
QUESTION: An enormous number of flying insects hatched near our house a few days ago. They are NOT black flies. They are NOT mosquitoes, although they resemble the latter somewhat. They do not bite. There must have been hundreds of thousands in the original hatched plume, maybe even millions. They are about the size of a mosquito but the body is more simply rectangular; one pair of wings. They've pretty much gone by now, but at times this week they covered one side of the house and deck. I'm (obviously) no kind of entomologist, and would be happy for advice about how to learn about these guys.
Leslie: I always look forward to your postings.
9 May 2004 - Brooksville on the Bagaduce
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Chip Moseley
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Adult male SUMMER TANAGER out in the backyard for 4 days. I was watching him eat wasps this morning. The second food item that Arthur Cleveland Bent mentions as eating was wasps which I found most interesting.
7 May 2004 - Pertville Road, Sedgwick
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Leslie Clapp
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I hope I am not entering too much info lately BUT, I get so excited about the new arrivals, I have to share them! This morning I had an unusual visitor. A first year male orchard oriole was very interested in the nectar feeder I put out and was there off and on all day. Chip came over and saw it too. Another first for our back yard! Check out the guide books- very different than the baltimore and a treat to see eventhough it wasn't in full breeding plumage.
Northern Parulas are here as well.
6 May 2004 - Blue Hill
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Rebekah Raye
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Thank you Leslie for your hummingbird report. The feeder was filled this morning with fresh nectar solution and by noon I saw the first male Hummer checking it out. Two Ospreys were very vocal and over head at 4:00 this afternoon. Two skunks were mating in the back yard night before last.
6 May 2004 - East Blue Hill
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Leslie Clapp
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Had a male hummingbird at some early rhododendron blooms on Mon. and had a female at the feeders yesterday(Tues) during the rainy part of the day.
5 May 2004 - Blue Hill
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David Stearns
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Rose-breasted Grosbeak has been visiting us all day today.
5 May 2004 - Blue Hill
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Chip Moseley
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SCARLET TANAGER seen at suet feeder today and yesterday. Suet is better than nothing when insects are not to be found.
4 May 2004 - Pertville Road, Sedgwick
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Leslie Clapp
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Had a Baltimore oriole off and on all day...it was first eating from the mixed seed feeder then it was picking at some apple blossom buds. I put out some oranges and some nectar but it wasn't interested- yet! It did a bit of chattering and a part of a song but was mostly quiet compared to usual vocalizations.
2 May 2004 - Blue Hill
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diane bartholomew
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the beautiful song of the hermit thrush is heard again!
and...for "birth of a hummingbird", an amazing series of photos, go to
http://community-2.webtv.net/hotmail.com/verle33/HummingBirdNest
1 May 2004 - penobscot
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Leslie Clapp
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What a morning!
Climbed Blue Hill and here are the new arrivals...
Ovenbird, Blackburnian, Black-throated Green, Black and White Warbler. Common Yellowthroat, Field sparrow, Eastern Towhee, Brown thrasher.
2 Kestrals were ganging up on a Broadwinged Hawk and putting on quite a show.
1 May 2004 - Blue Hill
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