[Maine-birds] This Week's Highlight's, 5/24-5/31 (including highlights from 5 days on Monhegan)

Hi all,

My observations of note from a 4-day tour, followed by a 1-day vacation, to Monhegan Island (mostly already posted here by Kristen Lindquist) resulted in the following:

5/24

Hardy Boat to Monhegan (with group):
- 1 Atlantic Puffin
- 2 Roseate Terns

Arrival: absolutely incredible! It took us almost 2 hours to walk up Dock Rd:
- 1 WHITE-WINGED DOVE (my first on the island!)
- 1 ad male SUMMER TANAGER
- 6 Philadelphia Vireos (FOY)
- 2 Eastern Wood-Pewees (FOY)
- 1 Prairie Warbler
- 19 species warblers led by 40 Tennessee and 40 Blackpoll

5/25 w/ group:
- 1 WHITE-WINGED DOVE
- 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
- 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- 1 Prairie Warbler
- 1 SUMMER TANAGER
- 1 CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
- 20 species of warblers led by 25 Tennessee and 20 Chestnut-sided.

5/26 w/ group:
- 1 Green Heron
- 1 Black-billed Cuckoo (FOY)
- 1 Hairy Woodpecker 

- 1 Eastern Bluebird

- 1 SUMMER TANAGER
- 1 CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
- 17 species warblers led by 25 Chestnut-sides and 20 Tennessee and 20 Yellow

5/27 w/ group:
- 1 EURASIAN-COLLARED DOVE (another new island bird for me and my first in Maine! 2nd State Record)
- 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
- 16 species of warblers led by 25 Blackpoll and 20 Yellow

5/28 w/Jeannette:
- another great day with lots of birds!
- 1 EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE
- 40+ Eastern Wood-Pewees
- 1 Willow Flycatcher (FOY)
- 1 ACADIAN FLYCATCHER
- 1 Pine Warbler (22nd warbler species of the weekend)
- 17 species of warblers led by 60 Blackpoll and 40 American Redstarts

*Since returning from the island:

- Uncommon migrants at Spear Farm Estuary Preserve in Yarmouth on 5/29 included 2 Yellow-bellied Flycatchers, 1 Philadelphia Vireo, 1 Bay-breasted Warbler, etc.

- 1 Solitary Sandpiper (getting late), Florida Lake Park, Freeprt, 5/30.

- 39 White-winged Scoters, Wharton Point, Brunswick, 5/30.

-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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