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Chip Moseley
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In the first several day of January a SHORT-EARED OWL & a SNOWY OWL were sighted in the Great Meadow in Sedgwick. Great Meadow can be found in "The Maine Atlas and Gazetteer" on pg. 15. It is the vast meadow area which stretches from the northern edge of Salt Pond that can be seen on the northeast side of Hales Hill Road and stretches southward for aprox. half a mile. You can see the meadow area from Hales Hill Road and Rt. 172 intersection for about the next quarter of a mile as you proceed southward on Rt. 172. I believe, though certainly not a geologist, that this meadow was once connected to the north end of the Benjamin River. I would guess that this meadow area is ~300 acres. Since living in the area for the last 3 winters I have been looking for these two species. The habitat is ideal for these two winter migrants to our area. I did not have the honor of seeing these two birds but they were spotted by two competent birder friends that live immediately adjacent to this special place.
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Seen today at the Parker Ridge Retirement Community feeding along the entrance to the main complex were 2 PINE GROSBEAK & 1 BOHEMIAN WAXWING
21 January 2004 - Blue Hill Peninsula
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ken crowell
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Red-bellied Woodpecker -- there's been one on Dow Road, Deer Isle, where one was some years ago. Interesting complement to the one recently reported from Brooklin. This must be the edge of their expanded range. Acorns are their mainstay. As noted below, feeders are probably an important factor in range expansion of cardinal and tufted titmouse as well, though not for turkey vulture or blue-gray gnatcatcher.
Here's what Chip wrote:This is another southern bird that is expanding its range slowly northward. The range maps in the various current bird guides still do not show them as being present in this area but in the future I feel that they will be. Its likely that this sp. of wdpker is able to make its way northward because of the number people now feeding birds in our society. "In the New York area Bull detected an increase after 1956. Increasing in Connecticut, it was regularly reported in the 1960's along coastal Fairfield County." Viet and Peterson state that in MA, "prior to 1955, Red-bellied Woodpeckers were considered rare vagrants from the south by Griscom and Snyder (1955), who listed only fifteen records." As I recall, they were uncommon in the southern part of Maine until the 1970's. I hear about them in these parts, Blue Hill and Bar Harbor occasionally.
21 January 2004 - Deer Isle
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Chip Moseley
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11 BOHEMIAN WAXWING still at the park as of 11:00A.M. today. Seen eating fruits of Apple Tree and Dwarf Juniper (Juniperus communis) on the south eastern property line of the park as you walk in. I have never seen birds eating from this juniper sp. and have been wondering for some time if any birds ever did use this food source. Parked at the closed gate and followed Ken and Marnie(??)Crowell's foot tracks to the birds. Beautiful sight on a beautiful winter day!
20 January 2004 - Mariners Memorial Park, Deer Isle
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Ken Crowell
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Great Horned Owl. Weed Point Rd., Little Deer Isle -- Ca. Jan. 10 -- Pete (Nathan) and Marth Dane.
18 BOHEMIAN Waxwing. Mariners Memorial Park. 2:00 Jan. 19 -- sitting in dead tree and flying briefly to ground -- to "drink" snow??
19 January 2004 - Deer Isle and LDI
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Ken Crowell
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Edee Howland has seen a Barred Owl by the pond just past the Little Deer Isle PO, the most recent being Dec. 27.
Larry Moffet described seeing a Great Gray at close range behing Barter's store in Sunset, DI just before Christmas. Could have been a Barred, but it was big and he described the moustache/chin markings.
11 January 2004 - Deer Isle
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Chip Moseley
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Common Redpoll flock here at 25 birds this A.M. Gotta go get more niger seed!
11 January 2004 - Pertville Road, Sedgwick
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Pam Siewers
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Two adult bald eagles and 2 immature eagles have been seen for over a week now nibbling daintily (hah!) at a deer carcass washed up on the western shore of the Benjamin River.
10 January 2004 - Sedgwick
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John Fuller
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My little flock of Common Redpoll has grown to sixteen with the cold weather. However, today they were joined by an absolutely beautiful male Hoary. What a thrill!
8 January 2004 - Brooklin
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Rebekah Raye
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The day started out with 25+Red Polls, and a Purple Finch at the thistle feeder. 2 sparrows with black and white striped heads, grayish cheeks and pearl gray under bodies were among the plants flying pot to pot inside at Home Depot?? I counted 58 seals lounging at low tide around 1:30 p.m. Including one Harbor Seal popping up with a large mouth full of something half eaten. The food source must be good there at Jed's Island in Morgan Bay. A pair of Oldsquaw and a Loon and several Eiders were also in good view.
4 January 2004 - East Blue Hill,and Ellsworth
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ken Crowell
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WE had a yellow-rumped warbler Dec. 16. Rich Howe had a flock of redpoll all yesterday, Dec. 28, so it looks like a year for them!
Eric Sheard says a dozen canada geese have spent the week in SMall's cove.
28 December 2003 - Deer Isle
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