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Gilsland Farm Audubon Center, Cumberland, Maine, US
Jun 29, 2018 6:18 AM – 8:09 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.28 mile(s)
Comments:     Brookline Bird Club trip.  We met here to look for the little egret.  It was absolute low tide at 6:50AM.  We found the little egret with snowy egrets below Tidewater farm near the Route 9 bridge.
47 species

Mallard  3
Wild Turkey  6
Common Loon  1
Double-crested Cormorant  1
Great Blue Heron  1
Little Egret  1     Continuing; photos
Snowy Egret  6
Osprey  2
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Bald Eagle  1
Herring Gull  12
Great Black-backed Gull  1
Mourning Dove  1
Belted Kingfisher  1
Downy Woodpecker  1
Hairy Woodpecker  2
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2
Least Flycatcher  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
Eastern Kingbird  2
Warbling Vireo (Eastern)  1
Red-eyed Vireo  3
Blue Jay  6
American Crow  2
Tree Swallow  4
Barn Swallow  18
Black-capped Chickadee  7
Tufted Titmouse  1
House Wren  1
Carolina Wren  1
Eastern Bluebird  1
American Robin  4
Gray Catbird  1
Common Yellowthroat  6
Yellow Warbler  4
Pine Warbler  1
Chipping Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow  10
Northern Cardinal  4
Indigo Bunting  1
Baltimore Oriole  2
Red-winged Blackbird  3
Brown-headed Cowbird  3
Common Grackle  15
House Finch  6
American Goldfinch  1
House Sparrow  35

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S47314440

Deblois Blueberry Barrens, Washington, Maine, US
Jun 29, 2018 2:10 PM – 3:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
3.5 mile(s)
Comments:     Upon Darin Hammond’s (Wyman’s of Maine) recommendation, we drove to the north esker to look and were rewarded by finding birds there. We skipped the air strip area.
7 species

Northern Harrier  1
Upland Sandpiper  12     Tally
Cedar Waxwing  6
Common Yellowthroat  1
Vesper Sparrow  2
Savannah Sparrow  3
Song Sparrow  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S47314446

Messalonskee Lake–boat ramp, Kennebec, Maine, US
Jun 29, 2018 9:30 AM – 10:39 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.58 mile(s)
Comments:     Brookline Bird Club trip.  We were here looking for black terns and sandhill cranes.  We struck out on the sandhill cranes despite a thorough scoping of nearly the entire marsh.
30 species

Canada Goose  6
Common Loon  6
Pied-billed Grebe  2
Great Blue Heron  2
Northern Harrier  2
Broad-winged Hawk  1
Black Tern  18
Mourning Dove  2
Belted Kingfisher  1
Least Flycatcher  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
Eastern Kingbird  1
Warbling Vireo  1
Red-eyed Vireo  2
American Crow  5
Purple Martin  8
Tree Swallow  2
Barn Swallow  20
American Robin  3
Gray Catbird  2
European Starling  30
Common Yellowthroat  2
American Redstart  2
Yellow Warbler  1
Swamp Sparrow  1
Red-winged Blackbird  10
Brown-headed Cowbird  4
Common Grackle  6
House Finch  2
American Goldfinch  4

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S47314443

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