I have an important announcement

[jpak]

I saw a *robin* today

:bounce:

That is all

:)'

[lazyriver]

1. Must have been encouraging. I bet I'm three weeks from

seeing one around here...unless they've figured out a way to pluck worms from a few feet of snow.

I did see my first ever northern shrike a few days ago. It was harassing the chickadees on my feeder.

[jpak]

2. cool bird!

I saw hooded mergansers, canada geese, mallards and scaup on the river today...(the ice went out last week).

...and I saw one guy ice fishing (last chance before open water season) - that's hard core...

[lazyriver]

4. We've had a number of cool birds normally rare for here

this year. A barred owl has been picking off red squirrels and even an occasional mourning dove all winter long. It hunts squirrels and doves between 2 or 3 in the afternoon and sundown, then we hear it calling all night. Between the owl and our new resident goshawk, our song birds have had quite the gauntlet to run for their daily feed.

We've had evening and pine grosbeaks as well as hoary and common red polls for much of the winter as well. Apparently there is a huge spruce cone failure (?) and maybe a few other factors up in Canada this winter that has caused major irruptions southward of these species.

I did see two mallards flying upriver past my house last weekend. Poor buggers were heading exactly the wrong way if they were looking for water in its liquid state. I'm not sure the whitewater up on the West Branch is even flowing yet.

[jpak]

5. I saw lots of pine grosbeaks and red polls this winter (and a few evening GB's)

and LOTS of bald eagles ice fishing (that is, I was ice fishing not the eagles).

Your goshawk would be a lifer for me...

Saw a turkey vulture today too...

[MaineDem]

3. There is hope.

This has been a long winter.

[luckyleftyme2]

6. they have been here

they have come back for the second time this month on the coast.we saw a couple around the 7th in kennebunkport. no I wasn't visting walkers point we were out for a drive.(ha ha)

[mainegreen]

7. I saw SNOW today. Falling. Downwards from the sky, like.

x(

[luckyleftyme2]

8. cheer up

summer is coming june 21 so we got to have spring before then! or do we?

[jpak]

9. I saw temperatures falling this PM downwards

29 when I went out

24 when I came home

:(

But I did see a mink running up the brook and a Cooper's Hawk...

[crim son]

10. Where?

I've heard crows and seen a few flocks of birds I haven't tried to identify. But a robin? There's hope!

[jpak]

11. In Fairfield - saw 2 in Fayette too

52 degrees on Tuesday....(Opening day)...

:)

[MaineDem]

12. I saw one today in Southwest Harbor!

Hooray.

Spring is here.