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     As a service to local and visiting birders, The Freeport Wild Bird Supply provides a weekly update about interesting bird sightings in the area. With a focus on rarities in York, Cumberland, and Sagadahoc Counties, the South Coastal Maine Rare Bird Alert will provide timely, accurate, and detailed information for all birders. You can email your sightings to birds@yarmouthbirds.com.
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  • November 11, 2004

    - RBA

    * Maine
    * Southcoastal
    * November 11, 2004
    * MESC0411.11

    - Species Mentioned:
    “Blue” Snow Goose
    Harlequin Duck
    Barrow’s Goldeneye
    Ruddy Duck
    Double-crested Cormorant
    Great Cormorant
    RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER
    Carolina Wren
    Pine Warbler
    “Yellow” Palm Warbler
    BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER
    CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
    ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK
    Indigo Bunting
    DICKCISSEL
    Red-winged Blackbird
    Common Grackle
    Purple Finch
    Pine Siskin

    - Transcript:
    Hotline: Southcoastal Maine Rare Bird Alert
    Date: November 11, 2004
    Phone: (207) 846-8004
    To report: (207) 846-8004, or birds@yarmouthbirds.com
    Coverage: York, Cumberland, and Sagadahoc Counties.
    Compiled: November 11, 2004, 4:00pm

    This is Derek Lovitch welcoming you to the Southcoastal Maine Rare Bird Alert, sponsored by the Wild Bird Center of Yarmouth at 500 Route One, Yarmouth, Maine. Transcripts of current and past messages can be found at www.yarmouthbirds.com. You can email your sightings to birds@yarmouthbirds.com or leave a detailed message at the tone following this recording. All locations not found in A Birder’s Guide to Maine by Pierson, et al. are referenced to the Delorme Maine Atlas. Maine Audubon’s Statewide Bird Alert can be reached at 207-781-2332.

    This recording was updated on Thursday, November 11, 2004 with highlights that include: late migrants such as ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK and BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER, even more RED-BELLIED WOODPECKERS, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, and a few more DICKCISSELS.

    An “Alberta Clipper” (a fast moving winter-time low pressure system out of Canada) passed through our area Sunday night. High pressure built in behind it, giving us sunny but cool days, with clear, and progressively colder nights. A few flurries reached the western parts of our reporting area on Tuesday, and temperatures on Wednesday morning were only in the single digits in a number of locales. Since Monday’s Special Edition summarized sightings through Sunday, this report is shorter than usual. However, a number of excellent birds have been seen in the last few days.

    The two adult “BLUE” SNOW GEESE continue in the fields of Thornhurst Farm along Rte 115 in North Yarmouth (Delorme Map 5: D-5).

    Eight HARLEQUIN DUCKS continue at “The Nubble” in Cape Neddick. A drake BARROW’S GOLDENEYE dropped in to join RUDDY DUCKS and other species at the Sanford Sewage Ponds (off Rte 4 in Sanford, Delorme Map C-4) on 11/9.

    GREAT CORMORANTS are slowly replacing DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS along the coast, as we expect this time of year.

    Thanks to an article in Sunday’s Portland Press Herald, a number of RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER sightings have been reported to the store. Birds were seen at feeders this week in Naples, York, Topsham, Falmouth, and Limerick, as well as in Portland’s Dragon Fields (Near the intersections of Presumpscot and Ocean Ave; Delorme Map 72: C-3) on the 9th. Over 75 sightings of Red-bellied Woodpeckers have been recorded in the state this fall!

    Two CAROLINA WRENS continue at the Wild Bird Center of Yarmouth’s feeders, while a single bird was in a Portland yard on 11/9.

    A PINE WARBLER was in the neighborhood near “The Nubble,” on Cape Neddick on the 9th, a “YELLOW” PALM WARBLER was at Fort Williams Park in South Portland on the 8th (Delorme Map 73: G-6), and a late BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER was discovered at Fort Foster, Kittery on 11/9.

    A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was found on Bailey’s Island, Harpswell on 11/7.

    A very late ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK has been visiting a feeder in Springvale since the 7th and an INDIGO BUNTING stopped by the feeders at Gilsland Farm, Falmouth on the 11th.

    An immature male DICKCISSEL continues at Portland’s Dragon Field at least through the 8th. One flew over a Cumberland yard that day as well, while another immature male is visiting the feeders at Gilsland Farm, Falmouth since the 8th.

    Small flocks of RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS and COMMON GRACKLES were on the move this week, likely some of the last to head south.

    It seems that PURPLE FINCHES and PINE SISKINS have passed us by. Despite 100’s of Purple Finches to our south, in places like Cape May, NJ, only small numbers are being seen in the southcoast of Maine. For example, only 4 were tallied by last Sunday’s rarity roundup.

    Thank you for calling and see you out in the field!

    - End transcript

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