A very nice day for a bird walk, windy at times but sunny too. This
morning 14 people came to walk St. Peter’s Cemetery in Lewiston. We
ended up walking under the power lines all the way to Gulf Island Dam
then back to the cemetery and around a bit more of it. The
bird-of-the-day was probably “sparrows.” We had 8 species of sparrows
with a good mix of everything else. All in all we had 40 species,
starting with 18 mostly young Wild Turkeys crossing the road behind us.
Birds seen and heard (H):
Canada Goose – 2 flew over honking
Wild Turkey – 18, literally the first bird seen
Rock Pigeon -16
Mourning Dove – 1
Killdeer – 1 at the canoe portage
Ring-billed Gull – 2 on river
Common Loon – 1 at the canoe portage
Great Blue Heron – as we returned flew over
Turkey Vulture – also flew over as we returned
Bald Eagle – 1 adult, 1 immature, both seen twice
Red-tailed Hawk – Carol Jack had ahead of us
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker – 2
Northern Flicker – 3+
Eastern Phoebe – 4+
Red-eyed Vireo – 2
Blue Jay – 30++ constantly flying over
American Crow
Common Raven – 1 flew over
Black-capped Chickadee – 10+
Tufted Titmouse (H)
White-breasted Nuthatch (H)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet – 1, maybe 2
American Robin – 30 at least around cemetery
Gray Catbird – 8
European Starling – 1
Purple Finch – 6 in a small flock
American Goldfinch
Eastern Towhee – (H) but called frequently, perhaps 10
Chipping Sparrow – large flock in lower cemetery, a few in upper
Field Sparrow – 1 seen
Song Sparrow – 5+
Lincoln’s Sparrow – 2
Swamp Sparrow – 2 towards dam
White-throated Sparrow – 10+ some called
Dark-eyed Junco – 3+
Tennessee Warbler – 2 starting to canoe portage
Common Yellowthroat – 2
Pine Warbler – 1
Black-throated Green Warbler – 1 starting to canoe portage
Northern Cardinal (H)
Stan DeOrsey