Another great day and a great walk. Eight people walked the Androscoggin River Trail in Lisbon. This is the “new” trail starting at the Papermill Trail parking lot. It was a bit warm and no wind but lots of birds. We had 41 species and saw most of them, many multiple times. Vireos were particularly numerous and a number of Veeries sang but one sounded as if he were only 10 feet from us. Gordon Smith found a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher off the parking lot before the rest of us arrived, a very good bird for this far north.
Birds seen and heard (H) were:
Wood Duck – female with young, but almost to far to see
Spotted Sandpiper – 2 flew over river
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Pigeon – at least 4 nests under highway bridge with young seen one
Mourning Dove
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Least Flycatcher (H)
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher – 1
Eastern Kingbird – 2, adult with young
Blue-headed Vireo – 1
Warbling Vireo – 6 singing, 1 seen
Red-eyed Vireo – perhaps 9, most seen
Blue Jay
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse – with young
White-breasted Nuthatch – with young
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher – Gordon Smith had off parking lot
Veery – 5?, 1 seen
American Robin
Gray Catbird – many
European Starling – at Staples
Cedar Waxwing
Norther Parula – saw and sang
Yellow Warbler – 6? saw most
Chestnut-sided Warbler – 4? saw all
Black-throated Green Warbler – 2
Black-and-white Warbler – 3
American Redstart – 5?
Ovenbird (H) – 6?
Common Yellowthroat – 7?
Chipping Sparrow – with young
Song Sparrow – 12 or more, everywhere all singing
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting (H)
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Baltimore Oriole – feeding young, Gordon had off parking lot before the rest of us arrived
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow – at Staples
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Stan DeOrsey