Sightings and Observations

FISH

Atlantic Sturgeon, 8/21/01, seen breaching in the Androscoggin along Route 1 in Topsham/Brunwick Alewife? Blueback herring? 8/22/01--Gulls feeding on bait fish run below Brunswick dam. Likely juvenile alewife or herring dropping out of the river. Striped Bass 8/22/01 Chasing juvenile herring/alewife below Brunswick Dam.

 

Sightings from 'A Merry Meeting At the Bay' May 20, 1999 Chops Point, Woolwich, Maine
Animals	Plants	Plants
BIRDS Double Crested Cormorant Osprey Mourning Dove Eastern Phoebe Tree Swallow Blue Jay Black & White Warbler Black-throated Green warbler Baltimore Oriole Chipping Sparrow MAMMALS Fox	MOSSES & FERNS Ground Pine Interrupted Fern Cinnamon Fern Bracken Fern Sensitive Fern Rock Polypody HERBACEOUS FLOWERING PLANTS Jack-in-the-Pulpit Canada Mayflower Pink Lady's Slipper Buttercup Wood Anemone Goldthread Wood Sorrel Common Blue Violet Fringed Polygala Wild Sarsparilla Wild Strawberry Evening Primrose Bunchberry Trailing Arbutus (Mayflower) Wintergreen Starflower Bluets Partridgeberry Hawkweed Rushes Sedges Grasses	SHRUBBY SPECIES Sweet Fern Winterberry (Ilex) Speckled Alder Hawthorn Staghorn Sumac Blueberry Witch hazel Witherod ARBORAL SPECIES White Pine Common Juniper Balsam Fir Hemlock Red Spruce Northern White Cedar Red Oak White Oak Gray Birch Paper Birch Beech Red Maple White ash Apple Cherry

GENERAL SIGHTINGS

Freeze Up - Merrymeeting Bay
1990...12/15; reop; 1/1/91	1993...total, 12/28	1996...1/9 pt open; tot, 1/27
1991...ptly, 12/8	1994...12/8; reop; 1/28 pt open	1997...12/13.12/28..pt op 1/12
1992...total, 12/27, rough	1995...12/14	1998-1999...12/29/98
1999-2000...12/29 to BI; across 1/14/2000	2001-2002...1/2/02 partial	2005-2006...12/9/05 partial
2006-2007...1/20/07 river; 2/3/07 all	2007-2008...12/2/08 to Brick I	2008-2009... 12/18/08

Ice Out - Merrymeeting Bay
1990...3/18 to BI	1993...4/9 to BI; 4/13 to Cath	1996...3/1to BI ; 3/21to Cath
1991...3/8 some; 3/14 to Cath	1994...3/26 to BI; 4/5 to Cath	1997...2/28 to BI; 3/21 to Cath
1992...3/7 to BI; 3/21 to Cath	1995...3/18 to Cath	1998... 2/21 to BI; 3/1 to Cath
1999....2/7 to Brick Island; 3/16 to Cathance	2000...3/8 to Brick Island; 3/15 to Cathance	2001... 3/24 to Brick Island; 4/7 to Cathance
2002...; 3/1 to Cathance	2003...3/25 to Brick Island; 3/31 to Cathance	2004...3/18 to Brick Island; 3/28 to Cathance
2005...3/30 inside Brick I; 4/3 all	2006...2/3 open; 2/20 refrozen; 3/11 open	2007... open by 4/2
2008... 3/31 open	2009... 3/28 Outside BI; 3/29 open
2011... 3/26-7 open

Killdeer in Bay View Cemetery Bowdoinham
1990...4/20	1993...3/28	1996...4/16
1991...4/5	1994...3/24	1997...3/30
1992...4/12	1995...3/20	1998...3/27
1999...3/28	2000...3/29	2001...4/15
2002...4/15	2003...3/23	2004...
2005...	2006...4/14	2007...3/25
2008...4/8	2009...4/17

Peepers near Bay View Cemetery Bowdoinham
1990...4/21	1991...4/6	1992...5/3
1993...4/24	1994...4/14	1995...4/15
1996...4/18	1997...4/23	1998...4/6
1999	2000...3/29	2001...4/22
2002...	2003...4/12	2004...
2005...4/9	2006...	2007...4/18
2008...4/11	2009... by 4/15 (we were away)