{"id":3114,"date":"2014-08-15T18:25:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T22:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3114"},"modified":"2014-08-15T18:25:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T22:25:41","slug":"maine-2014-the-ospreys-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3114","title":{"rendered":"Maine 2014 – The Osprey’s Nest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Great Blue Heron, flying and making noise. Cundy’s Harbor, Harpswell ME, 8\/3\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For our second week in Maine, Tricia and I rented a place\u00a0in Harpswell. It was called “The Osprey’s Nest”<\/a>, and it is\u00a0the top floor of a cottage right on Cundy’s Harbor. There is a large deck that overlooks the water and\u00a0kayaks can be launched right from the property. Also, and most importantly, it was a super birding location. It is hard to imagine the “yard list” you would come up with if you lived there – we had over 40 species in the week that we were there. I spent most of my birding time right on the deck, taking photos of birds, \u00a0relaxing,and sipping a coffee (or maybe a beer or two). We also got out in a double kayak a few times and that provided some better photos ops, especially of the seals that we had been seeing from a distance. Here’s my list for the week and photos – some taken from the deck and others from the kayak. What a super place to stay!<\/p>\n

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A view of “The Osprey’s Nest” from our kayak, out in Cundy’s Harbor, 8\/5\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Snowy<\/a>
Snowy Egret while kayaking Cundy’s Harbor in Harpswell ME, 8\/7\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Double Crested Cormorant
\nGreat Blue Heron
\nSnowy Egret
\nCanada Goose
\nMallard
\nCommon Eider
\nBlack Scoter
\nSemipalmated Plover
\nGreater Yellowlegs
\nLesser Yellowlegs
\nSpotted Sandpiper
\nLaughing Gull
\nHerring Gull
\nGreat Black-Backed Gull
\nCommon Tern
\nBlack Guillemot
\nTurkey Vulture
\nOsprey
\nBald Eagle
\nCooper\u2019s Hawk
\nMourning Dove
\nRuby-Throated Hummingbird
\nBelted Kingfisher
\nEastern Phoebe
\nGreat Crested Flycatcher
\nBarn Swallow
\nBlue Jay
\nAmerican Crow
\nCommon Raven
\nBlack-Capped Chickadee
\nWhite-Breasted Nuthatch
\nTufted Titmouse
\nHermit Thrush
\nGray Catbird
\nCedar Waxwing
\nYellow Rumped Warbler
\nBlack-Throated Green Warbler
\nPine Warbler
\nSong Sparrow
\nAmerican Goldfinch
\nHouse Sparrow<\/p>\n

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Lesser Yellowlegs while kayaking Cundy’s Harbor in Harpswell, Maine. 8\/7\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I am going to do a post about the seals in Cundy’s Harbor, but I couldn’t leave them out of this post entirely.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Common<\/a>
Common Eiders truly live up to their name on the coast of Maine – we saw many of these birds in the two weeks we were there. I never got tired of them. This was taken from the deck of “The Osprey’s Nest”, 8\/5\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I think this is a young Common Tern, shot while kayaking Cundy’s Harbor, 8\/7\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Double Crested Cormorants are also very numerous, but I did not have many photo ops. This one was taken while kayaking Cundy’s Harbor in Harpswell Maine, 8\/7\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This flock of Semipalmated Plovers visited us every day we were there. This was taken from the deck of “The Osprey’s Nest”, 8\/8\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For our second week in Maine, Tricia and I rented a place\u00a0in Harpswell. It was called “The Osprey’s Nest”, and it is\u00a0the top floor of a cottage right on Cundy’s Harbor. There is a large deck that overlooks the water and\u00a0kayaks can be launched right from the property. Also, and most importantly, it was a … Continue reading “Maine 2014 – The Osprey’s Nest”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-Oe","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3114"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3145,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions\/3145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}