27th Annual Brookline Bird Club trip to the Rangeley Lakes Region, June 23 – June 30, 2024. Eddie Giles and Glenn d’Entremont, trip leaders. This list encompasses all of our sightings from the Kennebunk Plains, Lake Messalonskee in Belgrade, and throughout Rangeley and the mountains of western Maine.

The trip actively birds locations across the following five counties in Maine:

York County, Kennebec County, Oxford County, Franklin County, Somerset County

119 species

Canada Goose  33

Wood Duck  16

Mallard  1

Common Goldeneye  1

Hooded Merganser  4

Wild Turkey  1

Ruffed Grouse  6

Spruce Grouse  4

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  26    25 in downtown Kingfield

Mourning Dove  14

Chimney Swift  2

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  6

Sandhill Crane  3    Lake Messalonskee, Belgrade

Killdeer  3

Upland Sandpiper  3    Kennebunk Plains

Wilson’s Snipe  6    Gilman Pond Road, New Portland

Ring-billed Gull  2

Black Tern  8    Lake Messalonskee, Belgrade

Pied-billed Grebe  1    Lake Messalonskee, Belgrade

Common Loon  8

Double-crested Cormorant  6

American Bittern  3

Great Blue Heron  3

Turkey Vulture  32

Osprey  1

Cooper’s Hawk  2

Bald Eagle  2

Broad-winged Hawk  5

Red-shouldered Hawk  1

Red-tailed Hawk  2

Belted Kingfisher  2

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  32

Downy Woodpecker  7

Hairy Woodpecker  6

Pileated Woodpecker  14

Northern Flicker  20

American Kestrel  2

Merlin  3

Olive-sided Flycatcher  1

Eastern Wood-Pewee  2

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher  10

Alder Flycatcher  6

Least Flycatcher  9

Eastern Phoebe  10

Eastern Kingbird  10

Blue-headed Vireo  45

Warbling Vireo  1    Lake Messalonskee, Belgrade

Red-eyed Vireo  116

Canada Jay  4

Blue Jay  31

American Crow  26

Common Raven  21

Black-capped Chickadee  70

Boreal Chickadee  2

Tree Swallow  45

Purple Martin  12    Lake Messalonskee, Belgrade

Barn Swallow  43

Cliff Swallow  1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  5

Golden-crowned Kinglet  57

Red-breasted Nuthatch  60

Brown Creeper  1

Northern House Wren  1

Winter Wren  41

European Starling  1

Gray Catbird  10

Brown Thrasher  2    Kennebunk Plains

Northern Mockingbird  2    Kennebunk Plains

Eastern Bluebird  11

Veery  19

Swainson’s Thrush  53

Hermit Thrush  49

American Robin  41

Cedar Waxwing  76

House Sparrow  1

Evening Grosbeak  1

Purple Finch  18

Red Crossbill  6

American Goldfinch  39

Grasshopper Sparrow  8    Kennebunk Plains

Chipping Sparrow  14

Field Sparrow  4    Kennebunk Plains

Dark-eyed Junco  20

White-throated Sparrow  140

Vesper Sparrow  12    Kennebunk Plains

Savannah Sparrow  16

Song Sparrow  32

Lincoln’s Sparrow  3

Swamp Sparrow  29

Eastern Towhee  10

Bobolink  5    Gilman Pond Road, New Portland

Eastern Meadowlark  6    Kennebunk Plains

Baltimore Oriole  1

Red-winged Blackbird  49

Rusty Blackbird  4    Parmachenee Road, Atkinson and Gilmanton Academy Grant, NH

Common Grackle  10

Ovenbird  42

Northern Waterthrush  8

Black-and-white Warbler  8

Nashville Warbler  24

Mourning Warbler  10

Common Yellowthroat  74

American Redstart  30

Northern Parula  77

Magnolia Warbler  60

Blackburnian Warbler  34

Yellow Warbler  7

Chestnut-sided Warbler  48

Blackpoll Warbler  3

Black-throated Blue Warbler  34

Palm Warbler  3

Pine Warbler  5

Yellow-rumped Warbler  24

Prairie Warbler  8    Kennebunk Plains

Black-throated Green Warbler  55

Canada Warbler  7

Scarlet Tanager  1

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  9

Indigo Bunting  7

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S212655702