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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. August 16, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. August 9, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. August 2, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. July 22, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. July 19, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. July 12, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. July 5, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. June 28, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. June 21, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. June 14, 2007 - RBA * Maine * Southcoastal * June 14, 2007 * MESC0706.14 - Species Mentioned: Red-throated Loon PACIFIC LOON Common Loon Wilson’s Storm-Petrel AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER Greater Yellowlegs Upland Sandpiper Red Knot Purple Sandpiper LITTLE GULL Bonaparte’s Gull Red-bellied Woodpecker Olive-sided Flycatcher Carolina Wren Magnolia Warbler Prairie Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Mourning Warbler Vesper Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Indigo Bunting Portland Pelagic Trip: Registrations needed by June 21! - Transcript: Hotline: Southcoastal Maine Rare Bird Alert (Internet Only). Date: Thursday, June 14, 2007 compiled at: 5:00pm. To report: (207) 846-8002, or wbcbirds_AT_yarmouthbirds_dot_com. Coverage: York, Cumberland, and Sagadahoc Counties. 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. All locations not found in A Birder’s Guide to Maine by Pierson, et al. are referenced to the Delorme Maine Atlas. Transcripts of current and past reports can be found at www.yarmouthbirds.com. Weather Summary: A stalling cold front produced showers and isolated thunderstorms Sat pm. Scattered showers and patchy drizzle, along with easterly winds continued through Sun as a surface low spun well offshore. The moist maritime air and a series of shortwaves rotating around that low resulted in widely scattered showers and thunderstorms Mon pm through Tues, but high temps were as much as 10 degrees above normal. A deeper easterly flow Wed produced periods of drizzle, with below normal temps in the upper 50’s along the coast – 20 degrees cooler than yesterday (normal high for Portland is 72F.), before slowly clearing during the day on Thursday. A PACIFIC LOON, apparently in 1st-summer plumage, was described from off of Camp Ellis in Saco (Delorme Map 3: C-3) on 6/9. It was viewed from the beach at the end of Maine Avenue, between 5:00 and 6:45pm. The bird was seen again, just a little farther north in the Bay, from the beach of Ferry Beach State Park in the morning on the next day, in a group of 12 COMMON LOONS. 1 basic-plumaged RED-THROATED LOON was also observed in the area. 4 Red-throated and 31 Common Loons passed Cape Elizabeth’s Dyer Point (Delorme Map 3: B-5) in an hour on 6/14. The first WILSON’S STORM-PETREL of the season, a single bird, was spotted from Dyer Point on the 14th. An AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER flew past Ferry Beach in Scarborough (Delorme Map 3: B-4) on 6/11. With a scattered few shorebirds lingering in favored coastal locations, a GREATER YELLOWLEGS was lingering inland at the Sanford Sewerage facility (at the end of Gavel Rd, off of Rte 4 in Sanford; Delorme Map 2: C-4) on the 12th and 3 UPLAND SANDPIPERS were heard and seen at the Kennebunk Plains earlier that day. One RED KNOT was in Atkin’s Bay in Phippsburg (Delorme Map 6: E-5) on the 8th, while three were on Hill’s Beach in Biddeford on the 10th. Meanwhile, three lingering PURPLE SANDPIPERS were seen on Heron Island, off of Popham Beach State Park on the same day. A 1st cycle LITTLE GULL joined 175 BONAPARTE’S GULLS on Hill’s Beach (Delorme Map 3: C-3) in Biddeford on 6/10. The birds had concentrated on the sandbar to Basket Island at the beach’s East End on the incoming tide. Yards on Cousin’s Island in Yarmouth are now hosting a pair of RED-BELLIED WOODPECKERS. An OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was at the Bijhouwer Preserve in Phippsburg (From Rte 209, take Stoneybrook Rd for 0.6 miles to Devil’s Highway for 0.4 miles to the preserve; Delorme Map 6: D-5) on 6/8. A CAROLINA WREN continues to sing at Two Lights State Park in Cape Elizabeth. Truant migrant warblers this week included a smattering of MAGNOLIA WARBLERS, single singing BLACKPOLL WARBLERS at Freeport’s Florida Lake Park (off of Rte 125; Delorme Map 6: C-1) on 6/8 and along Fessenden Rd in Cape Elizabeth (Delorme Map 3: B-5) on 6/14, and a female MOURNING WARBLER at Yarmouth’s Bayview Preserve (off of Bayview St; Delorme Map 6: D-1) on 6/8. As for breeders, 18 PRAIRIE WARBLERS were counted in the powerline cut between Hurricane and Blackstrap Rds in Falmouth (Delorme Map 5: D-4) on the 9th, while 29 were tallied at the Kennebunk Plains on the 12th. 15 VESPER and 8 GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS were tallied in the Kennebunk Plains on 6/12. An excellent count of 11 INDIGO BUNTINGS was made in the powerline cut between Hurricane and Blackstrap Rds in Falmouth on the 9th. TRAVEL: PORTLAND PELAGIC. Join the Wild Bird Center of Yarmouth and See-Life Paulagics for a ½- DAY PELAGIC out of Portland on Saturday, July 14th. In order to ensure that this trip will run, please register by June 21st. We’ll be seeking Manx, Sooty, Greater, and perhaps even Cory’s Shearwaters; Wilson’s and Leach’s Storm-Petrels, Roseate and Arctic Terns, whales and dolphins, and hopefully such treats as a South Polar Skua or a (the?) Yellow-nosed Albatross! For more information, Contact See Life Paulagics (www_DOT_paulagics_DOT_com) or the Wild Bird Center of Yarmouth for more information. For reservations, contact See Life Paulagics at info_AT_ paulagics DOT com, or by calling 215-234-6805. - End transcript June 7, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. May 31, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. May 24, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. May 17, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. May 9, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. May 3, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. April 26, 2007 Click on the date to view the rare bird alert. 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