York County Audubon is a chapter of Maine Audubon.
This year’s Quest for 300 lists have been updated, with 261 species seen so far and 60 others not yet seen from the master county list (per eBird). Here are five we expect should already have gotten a 2011 tick…
On November 3rd, Andy Aldrich and Ken Janes found a Northern Lapwing at the Tuckahoe Turf Farm in Berwick. The bird was observed first around 10:50am and was last seen as it flew of towards the southwest at 12:30pm. I believe this is only the second record for Maine; one was collected in December 1927…
Andrew Aldrich to maine-birds… Sanford Sewage Plant, York, US-ME Oct 18, 2012 11:20 AM – 12:40 PM The LALO was near the fence to the right of the gate into the ponds, one half the distance to the power pole.
The Birding Challenge dovetailed nicely with an International Migratory Bird Day event held at the Wells Reserve on May 14. June Ficker and her bird-banding crew set up in the Laudholm barn, demonstrating their data-gathering procedures for curious onlookers. Their several captures included eastern wood-pewee and northern waterthrush. At the other end of the barn,…
I had a call at at 8:30 this morning. It was my 7-year-old granddaughter excitedly telling me that they had a Barred Owl in their yard (Maine woods)… right then! She wanted me to bring her little Peterson bird book over that I started for her, so she could put a Barred Owl in it….
Last time I wrote that in 2010, birders using eBird had reported seeing 298 species in York County. Since then, I’ve discovered a quirk in that data: In eBird, “species” is more than species. The tally is not as close to 300 as I thought! Most birders have spotted birds that they couldn’t nail down…
Watched the sparrow fly in to land on the gravel surrounding the Wells Reserve gazebo. It hopped around pecking for a while. Went under the gazebo and came back out.