Lingering winter birds and arriving spring migrants. Here are my highlights over the past seven days:

• 1 Red-winged Blackbird (FOY), feeders here at the store, 3/6. Small flocks around the area by week’s end.
• 1 drake BARROW’S GOLDENEYE, River Road, Benton, 3/8 (with Jeannette).
• 1 light morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK and 10 Horned Larks, Wyman Road, Benton, 3/8 (with Jeannette).
• 1 Northern Shrike, Sunkhaze Meadows NWR, 3/9 (with Jeannette).
• 3 continuing WILSON’S SNIPE, U of Maine-Orono Steam Plant, 3/9 (with Jeannette).
• 1 Common Grackle (FOY), Veazie, 3/9 (with Jeannette…sure didn’t expect my FOY in Penobscot County, but numbers increased in southern Maine by week’s end).
• 1 Killdeer (FOY), Highland Road, Brunswick, 3/11.
• 2 Lesser Scaup, Mill Creek Cove, South Portland, 3/12.
• 4 Brown-headed Cowbirds (FOY), feeders here at the store, 3/12.

This Week in Finches:

• EVENING GROSBEAK: 0
• Red Crossbill: 9 (Type 10 fide Matt Young at FiRN, Viles Arboreteum, Augusta, 3/8 with Jeannette).
• WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL:
• PINE GROSBEAK: 1 (Viles Arboretum, Augusta, 3/8 with Jeannette).
• Purple Finch High Count This Week: 0
• Common Redpoll High Count This Week: 7 (continuing at Back Cove, Portland, 3/7 with Ian Doherty and Ilsa Tucker).
• HOARY REDPOLL: 1 (continuing at Back Cove, Portland, 3/7 with Ian Doherty and Ilsa Tucker).
• Pine Siskin High Count This Week:  1 (Cumberland Town Landing, 3/7).