Mount Desert Island Birds: Northern Gannets off Otter Point
Otter Point , Hancock, US-ME
Sep 29, 2012 9:30 AM - 9:55 AM
Protocol: Stationary
Comments: A bus full of Minnesotans watched Northern Gannets plunge-diving around what is jokingly called "Rocky the Whale" and famed for the hole in Samuel Champlain's ship. It has been sometime since I saw Gannets feeding so close to the Island. Because DENT has been working so hard educating the public about the abhorrent ecological condition of our inter-coastal fisheries...., Gannets plunging off of Otter Point gives me hope that the forage fish so desperately needed to rebuild our Inter-coastal fisheries, are increasing in numbers that someday will reach exponential growth with a healthy and thriving Gulf of Maine Fisheries.
9 species (+1 other taxa)
Common Eider (Somateria mollissima) 80
Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps grisegena) 2
Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) 9+ Diving among Common Eider around the ledge just southeast of Otter Point
Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) 10
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) 75
Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus) 25 roosting at High Tide near OP
American Robin (Turdus migratorius) 2
warbler sp. (Parulinae sp.) 1
Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) 4
Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) 1
Sand Beach to Otter Cove 2012 , Hancock, US-ME
Sep 29, 2012 2:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
Comments: The Cruise ship Regatta was in port with an "Ocean Trail Hike" from Sand Beach to Otter Point.
13 species
Common Eider (Somateria mollissima) 100
Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) 25
Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) 1 flew in around 4 PM with the first indications from gulls flying out over the water. It appeared to be a large female swooping over Otter Point and working the shoreline past great head coming to rest finally on Old Soaker. Caused quite the commotion
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) X
Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus) 5
Black Guillemot (Cepphus grylle) 3
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) 2
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) 15
Golden-crowned Kinglet (Regulus satrapa) 1
American Robin (Turdus migratorius) 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata) 18
Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) 3
American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis) 1
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