ESTESBOG

 

I began the week in Morgan County, Colorado. Now I am in Farmington, Maine some 2,500 miles to the northeast. I arrived here on Friday afternoon and it has hardly stopped raining ever since. On Saturday the sun came out for 3-4 hours in the afternoon and I got out and hiked through mature mixed forest long enough to pick up the songs and a few sightings of some old friends. I’ll be here two more weeks and hope to get out and do some serious birding if the weather ever breaks.

 

COLORADO LIST

 

Canada goose

Mallard

Ring-necked pheasant

American white pelican

Double-crested cormorant

Turkey vulture

Swainson’s hawk

Red-tailed hawk

American kestrel

American coot

Killdeer

Rock pigeon

Eurasian collared-dove

Mourning dove

Burrowing owl

Chimney swift

Western kingbird

Eastern kingbird

Loggerhead shrike

Blue jay

Black-billed magpie

Horned lark

Northern rough-winged swallow

Bank swallow

Cliff swallow

Barn swallow

House wren

American robin

Northern mockingbird

Brown thrasher

European starling

Cedar waxwing

Yellow warbler

Common yellowthroat

Cassin’s sparrow

Lark sparrow

Lark bunting

Red-winged blackbird

Yellow-headed blackbird

Western meadowlark

Common grackle

Brown-headed cowbird

Bullock’s oriole

House finch

House sparrow

 

Mammals:

Black-tailed prairie dog

Eastern cottontail

Fox squirrel

 

Herptiles:

 

Woodhouse’s toad

Lesser earless lizard

 

MAINE LIST

 

Wood duck

Common loon

Green heron

Turkey vulture

Bald eagle

Killdeer

Ring-billed gull

Rock pigeon

Mourning dove

Great horned owl

Ruby-throated hummingbird

Pileated woodpecker

Eastern phoebe

Great crested flycatcher

Blue-headed vireo

Red-eyed vireo

Blue jay

American crow

Common raven

Black-capped chickadee

Red-breasted nuthatch

House wren

Veery

Hermit thrush

American robin

Gray catbird

Brown thrasher

European starling

Cedar waxwing

Black-throated green warbler

American redstart

Ovenbird

Common yellowthroat

Chipping sparrow

Dark-eyed junco, slate-colored race

Northern cardinal

Indigo bunting

Red-winged blackbird

Common grackle

Brown-headed cowbird

House finch

Purple finch

American goldfinch

Pine siskin

House sparrow

 

Mammals:

 

Eastern chipmunk

Gray squirrel

Red squirrel

 

Herptiles:

 

American toad

Bullfrog