Brown Thrasher
“…American Bittern or Virginia Rail Two other notes from the field over the last several weeks include, on June 12 along Crescent Beach State Park, four Black-bellied Plovers and three Least Sandpipers and on June 14 my wife spotted a Brown Thrasher in an old crab apple tree in our backyard.”
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Three Brown Thrashers were spied along the edges of the Goddard Mansion tangles in Fort Williams; one sang its rich melodious double phrases for quite some time.
A pair of Brown Thrashers were seen comingling along the fringes of the soccer fields bordering the Gull crest trails.
On April 25 our first of the season Brown Thrasher was spotted feasting on a suet cake.
On June 15 a Brown Thrasher appeared in our yard for all of ten seconds.
A pair of Brown Thrashers were seen comingling along the fringes of the soccer fields bordering the Gull crest trails.
On April 18 while poking around Trundy Point my wife spotted our first of spring Brown Thrasher.
Adding to the mix was a pair of Brown Thrashers seen comingling along the fringes of the bordering soccer fields where overgrown masses of shrubbery afford excellent nesting places for these sulking slinkers.
Late April brought Brown Thrashers, Eastern Towhees, House Wrens, Gray Catbirds and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks to backyards and bushy margins of abandoned hayfields and forest edges.
A Brown Thrasher singing atop a thicket off of McKenney Point Road completed the day.
On the last day of July along the overgrown fringes of Thomas Knight Park in South Portland, I was surprised to spy two Brown Thrashers and a single Northern Mockingbird making their rounds before retiring.
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Migratory woodpeckers such as the Northern Flicker and Yellow-bellied Sapsucker numbers peak in April as do Brown Creepers, Eastern Phoebes, Winter Wrens, Brown Thrashers, White-throated Sparrows, Swamp Sparrows, and fleeting pass through migrants like Fox Sparrows and “Ipswich” Savanah Sparrows.
House Wrens, Eastern Towhees, Brown Thrashers and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks were sparsely reported.
…American Bittern or Virginia Rail Two other notes from the field over the last several weeks include, on June 12 along Crescent Beach State Park, four Black-bellied Plovers and three Least Sandpipers and on June 14 my wife spotted a Brown Thrasher in an old crab apple tree in our backyard.
At dusk on this same day, I spied a trio of Brown Thrashers along the Willow Brook trail.
My notes from the yard and field over the last two weeks include, on September 7 a Brown Thrasher made an appearance on our lawn.
I also spotted my first Brown Thrasher of the season crossing Two Lights Road and later that afternoon spied five Ruby-crowned Kinglets, two Savannah Sparrow, a Hermit Thrush and a single Eastern Towhee along the splendid little Greenbelt Trail tucked along the western side of the Riverside Cemetery.
Other recent sightings around the yard and field include a Brown Thrasher that’s been visiting our suet feeder throughout the day.
Other local sightings include two clamorous Laughing Gulls flying over our house on June 17—Maine’s only regularly nesting hooded gull—and, on June 18, a Brown Thrasher taking a spirited bath in a pool of water atop a thicket along the rocky shoreline off McKenney Point Road.