Hi folks,
I was woking at the old Navy radar facility at Petit Manan Point Friday evening and Sat afternoon and at Indian Township near Princeton on Sat morning. I was doing work at both places so the birds I listed were incidental encounters.
I did 35 minutes of recording evening sounds at Corea as there are frequently unexpected sounds at that time of day, especially in wetlands. Frogs, crickets (3 or 4 species), mosquitoes, a beaver trudging through shallow water and the distant surf hitting rocks were the primary sounds. I recorded an odd metallic call which I have no idea what the source was. There were no human dwellings in the area.
Petit Manan Point 6-8 PM Friday evening.
Short-eared owl 1 Fly-past
Black-billed cuckoo 1 (vocalizing after dark)
Whimbrel 1 Flyover
Virginia rail 1 (calling after dark)
Black-crowned night-heron (sfter dark)
Osprey 1 at nest and one fly-past
Gray catbird 1 several call note types at dusk and after dark
Lincoln's sparrow 1
White-throated sparrow 1 singing after dark
Song sparrow 3
Chipping sparrow 1
Palm warbler 1
Yellow-rumped warbler
Common yellowthroats 3 calling at dusk and after dark
Unidentified warblers 3 Soft contact notes
Hermit thrush 1 call note at dusk
Porcupine 1 calling
Beaver 1 calling
White-tailed deer 1 snorting after dark
Herring gull 3
American crow 3
Common raven 1
Flicker 4
Hairy woodpecker 1
Green frog 2
Wood frog 1
Spring peeper 5 Giving an assortment of vocalizations
Gray tree frog 1
Several dozen frog splashes.
It was very foggy. I do not recommend staying in the old antenna field after dark in the fog. There are roads and it is grown over with tall alders and young birch trees with enough openings to find your way around in the daylight. The small openings seemed to shrink after dark. Any auto tracks in the gravel seemed to stop against walls of alders. I was fortunate enough to flush a short-eared owl and hear a black-billed cuckoo vocalizing (plus the singing white-throat). It took me about 35 minutes to travel the five minute drive in. I do not know how many trees I drove over. I have a strange wire hanging down from my engine, but it seems to run OK. It provided a nice adrenalin rush.
Petit Manan Point late Sat afternoon.
Whimbrel 3
Herring gull 5
Am crow 5
Osprey 1 at nest
Black-billed cuckoo 1
Common yellowthroat 2
Flicker 3
Blue jay 1
Ruby-throated hummingbird 1
Not as many birds and it was easy getting out.
Indian Township Sat morning 8-12:00
Gray jay 1
Bald eagle 3 (2 adults)
Black-backed woodpecker 1
Blue jay 3 - One giving the broad-winged hawk call like the bird Barry Southard reported.
Osprey 2
Pileated woodpecker 1
Green heron 1
Flicker 3
Yellow-rumped woodpecker
Black-capped chickadee 2
Dark-eyed junco 3
White-hroated sparrow 1
Canada geese 6
Am crow 6
Common raven 5
Mill Creek, Machiasport 6:30 6:35 AM
45 Bonaparte's gulls Across from my house
5 Ring-billed gulls
1 Great-blue heron
2 Ruby-throated hummingbirds
3 Am crows
Very thick fog
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Norman Famous, Wetlands and Wildlife Ecologist
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Augusta, ME 04330
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