About the Bay
Merrymeeting
Bay
Sightings and Observations
HELP! We need your
input.
Please send your sightings and observations of wildlife
around Merrymeeting Bay to Betsy
Steen
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FISH
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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.
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| Sightings from 'A
Merry Meeting At the Bay'
May 20, 1999
Chops Point, Woolwich, Maine
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Animals
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Plants
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Plants
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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
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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
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GENERAL
SIGHTINGS
| Freeze Up - Merrymeeting Bay
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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 |
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| Ice Out - Merrymeeting Bay
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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 |
| Killdeer in Bay View Cemetery Bowdoinham
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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... |
| Peepers near Bay View Cemetery Bowdoinham
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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... |
Birds and Beasts: A General
Sighting List
- Redwing Blackbirds in large flock at feeder Bay Rd. B'ham- 3/1/98,...3/29/99,...3/1/2000,...3/11/2001,...3/17/2003,...3/3/2004
- Phoebe Bay Road, Bowdoinham- 4/3/97...3/29/98...4/8/2000
- Cornell's BirdSource Great Backyard Sighting Count
February 20, 21, 22, 1998
(Maximun number / species sighted at once over 3 days: Bowdoinham)
- Bay Road - 7 mourning doves, 2 downy wookpeckers, 1
hairy woodpecker, 4 bluejays, 1 crow, 7 blackcapped chickadees,
1 tufted titmouse, 1 white breasted nuthatch, 1 red breasted
nuthatch, 41 robins, 2 starlings, 1 cardinal, 3 American
goldfinches
- School Street - 10 pigeons, 5 mourning doves, 3
bluejays, 5 crows, 4 blackcapped chickadees, 33 cedar waxwings,
5 starlings, 5 American goldfinches, 17 pine grosbeaks
- Mrs. Melander & and Mrs. Hinds/Mrs. Giggey's First
Grades
(Bowdoinham Community School)
- Wildes Point, Merrymeeting Bay
- June 5, 1997 AM
- Great Blue Heron
- Red-winged Black Bird
- Bobolink
- Off Route 24 (Bay Road) Bowdoinham, next to Bay View Cemetery
- Summer 1997
- November 1997
- possible sighting of small Mountain Lion
- September 1998
- Red Fox-trotting up the drive, around the house, over
the stone wall,to the pear tree, where he ate two large
pears
- May 2000
- Goldfinches, Northern Orioles, Red-winged Blackbirds,
Rose-Breasted Grosbeaks, House Finches, White Crowned
Sparrows, White Throated Sparrows, Indigo Bunting, Red
Bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpeckers, Hairy Woodpeckers,
Ruby Throated Hummingbird, Bobolink, Killdeer,
Updated 4/7/04
To report a sighting or event, contact Betsy
Steen
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