I found this rather cooperative, late Orange-crowned Warbler at Pond Cove in Cape Elizabeth – my 10^th of the fall. Unfortunately, my camera was insisting it was the sticks I wanted a photo of, so this is the best I did.

Some of my highlights over the past seven days included the following. For the most part, my birds of note were decidedly more wintery than in the past weeks, although “late/lingering” oddities are making an appearance with the slow progression of the season and resultant concentration at seasonal hotspots.

• 1 Red Crossbill, private property in Freeport, 11/24 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).

• 1 Hermit Thrush, private property in Freeport, 11/25.

• 1 light morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK (FOS), Hinckley Road, Clinton, 11/28 (with Jeannette).

• 59 Green-winged Teal (late, especially for such a large number), 1 Wood Duck, 6 Lesser Scaup, etc, Sebasticook Lake, 11/28 (with Jeannette).

• 4 drake BARROW’S GOLDENEYES (FOS), University of Maine – Orono Steam Plant Nature Trail, 11/28 (with Jeannette).

• 1+ PINE GROSBEAK (FOS), Sunkhaze NWR, 11/29 (with Jeannette).

• 1 immature Northern Shrike (FOS), Veazie Waterfront Park, 11/29 (with Jeannette).

• 1 1^st-winter Iceland Gull, Bangor Waterfront Park, 11/29 (with Jeannette).

• 1 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER and 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Pond Cove, Cape Elizabeth, 12/2.

• 1 FIELD SPARROW, 2 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS, 1 imm. White-crowned Sparrow, and 1 Winter Wren, Private property in Cape Elizabeth, 12/2.

• 4+ Red Crossbills, flying over the store, 12/2.