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This Week’s Highlights, 11/23– 11/29/2024

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My photos of my highlights this week are not exactly worthy of a “cover shot,” so instead, here’s a Northern Mockingbird that posed nicely for me in Biddeford Pool on the 29th.

Winter seems to be settling in! The colder (seasonable, finally!) temperatures should produce another wave of rarities and “lingering/late” birds to find though, and that was the case for my observations of note over the past seven days.

  • 45 American Pipits and ~10 Horned Larks, Mayall Road, Gray/New Gloucester, 11/23 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).
  • 1 female BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER, Village Crossings – Cape Elizabeth Greenbelt Trail, 11/24.
  • 1 Northern Shrike (FOS), feeders here at the store, 11/24.
  • 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 1 Winter Wren, 2 Hermit Thrushes, etc, Bailey Island, Harpswell, 11/25 (with Jeannette).
  • 1 WILSON’S WARBLER and 1 “YELLOW” PALM WARBLER, Saco Riverwalk, 11/29.

If you stitch together all of my photos, you might be able to make one poor photo of a whole Wilson’s Warbler. Nonetheless, it was a nice surprise that added a splash of color to the week’s birding endeavors. Trust me, the snapshot of the Palm Warbler is much worse!

  • An above-average number of species such as Northern Flickers, Hermit Thrushes, and Swamp Sparrows still continue around the area.