[Maine-birds] schoodic yesterday

Morning bird search effort of 2 hours within stones throw of SERC campus yielded:

 8  Black-throated green warblers

 3  Black and White warblers

 1  Yellow-rumped warbler

 1 Red-eyed vireo

 3 Hermit Thrush

12 Golden-crowned kinglet

 1 Brown Creeper

 2 Great blue heron

1  Belted Kingfisher

 1 Merlin

 1 Am. Kestrel

34 Common eider

14 DC Cormorant

6   Herring gull

2  Osprey

Afternoon 2 hour stint at Schoodic Point:

8 Northern Gannet (one of which, within naked eye range, thrilled some 30 onlookers when it dove from 100 feet or so for the third time to catch a hand length silvery fish)

45 Common Eider

3 Merlin

30+ Herring Gull

11 Great Black-backed gull

2   Ring-billed gull

1   Laughing gull

230 DC cormorant -  at least 6 flocks with 30 or more birds

Butterflies (that were identified) included: Monarch, Mourning Cloak, American Lady, Clouded Sulphur, and Common Buckeye (2).

Dragonflies were numerous, sometimes with swarms of a hundred or more at a time.  To this learning eye three families were recognizable. 

Seth Benz

Schoodic Bird Ecology Lab

seth@sercinstitute.org

207-288-1320