[Maine-birds] schoodic 9-8-12

Highlights of yesterday's birding effort at Schoodic were sparse due to wind direction and thick fog in am

and persistent yet oscillating clearing fog in the afternoon.  A yellow-breasted chat (captured at banding station)

got the most votes for bird of the day.  Songbirds were few and far between otherwise.

Raptors were spotted with some regularity but may have been the same birds coursing about the tip of

the peninsula -  SS, M, BE.

Northern gannets were consistent from Schoodic Point in the early afternoon. During a 2 hour watch, 36 were counted.

All were moving south west, angling from the point toward Bass Harbor (roughly).

Seth Benz

Schoodic Bird Ecology Lab

seth@sercinstitute.org

207-288-1320