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Travelogue: Wild Moosehead Weekend
Timing was excellent. Gray Jays had just fledged their
nestlings, so locating the curious youngsters was not difficult. Boreal
Chickadees turned up in multiple places. A weekend highlight: Wilson's
Snipe were particularly noisy near any wetland location, alternating
between their joyful sky dance
Sunday morning's trip up the west side of the lake added Black-throated Blue and Chestnut-sided Warblers - birds that were uncharacteristically reclusive the day before. (return to home page) |
Moosehead
Lake lived up to its reputation for great birding. The lifers piled up as
the weekend went along, since the birds seldom stopped singing. Guests of
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their chronic complaining in the marsh. A Cape May Warbler surprised the
guide, who had staked out a Bay-breasted Warbler near Shirley Bog the day
before the trip and was astonished when the more elusive warbler turned up
instead. Brown Thrashers are not common in northern Maine, but one
nonetheless popped out of the treetops and sang merrily in Greenville
Junction. An Olive-sided Flycatcher could be heard just a mile beyond,
along a road that is notorious for warbler variety, and the group
collected more than half of the weekend's warbler sightings within the
first hour of the trip. Later, during a drive up to the B-52 crash site,
numerous Blackpolls were found singing in the clear cuts on Elephant
Mountain.