[Maine-birds] This Week's Highlights, 7/14-20

Hi all,

My observations of note this week - beyond our puppy's growing life list - were as follows:

- 9 Great Shearwaters, 4 Atlantic Puffins, 2 Northern Gannets, 2 Sooty Shearweaters, 2 Wilson's Storm-Petrels, etc, Hardy Boat from New Harbor to Monhegan, 7/16 (with Jeannette).

- Monhegan Island, 7/16 (with Jeannette):

1 MANX SHEARWATER (bathing off lobster Cove)

3 juv. RING-NECKED PHEASANTS (continuing near Pebble Beach with Kristen Lindquist found them a couple of weeks ago; strange!)

4 immature Great Cormorants

2 Atlantic Puffins

2+ Great Shearwaters

1 continuing Carolina Wren

- Monhegan Island, 7/17 (with Jeannette):

# Great Shearwaters

1 imm Great Cormorants

1 continuing Carolina Wren

- 15 Great Shearwaters, 6 Wilson's Storm-Petrels, 3 Arctic Terns, 2 Atlantic Puffins, 1 Northern Gannet, etc, Hardy Boat from Monhegan to New Harbor, 7/17 (with Jeannette).

- 18 Semipalmated Sandpipers, Wharton Point, Brunswick, 7/20.

- 1 continuing Chukar, Simpson's Point Road, Brunswick, 7/20.

- 2 Lesser Yellowlegs, Simpson's Point, Brunswick, 7/20.

-Derek

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 Derek and Jeannette Lovitch

 Freeport Wild Bird Supply

 541 Route One, Suite 10

 Freeport, ME 04032

 207-865-6000

 www.freeportwildbirdsupply.com  

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