[Maine-birds] Cape Neddick and Nubble Light, Glaucous Gull, Blue Grosbeak, and others, 10/5

Denny Abbott and I spent the moring at Nubble Light and Cape Neddick looking for migrants.  One of the first birds we saw right in the parking lot at Nubble light was a 1st/2nd yr Glaucous Gull - begging for food with the Herring Gulls.  Highlights flying by Nubble Light (9-10 AM) -

• Peregrines - 5
• Merlins - 3
• Gannets - numerous flying south, all adults
• Common Loons - numerous flying south
• DC Cormorants - one flock of >500 birds flying south

And there were numerous passerines on the lighthouse island which were identifiable with a scope, including -

• E Phoebe - 1
• White-thr-Sparrow - 20
• Lincoln's Sparrow - 1
• White-cr Sparrow - 1 im
• Swamp Sparrow - 2
• Song Sparrow - 4
• Palm Warbler - 1
• Plus Great Cormorants - 3 perched on the island

Then on to the thickets on the peninsula, where we had a fair number of landbirds from 10-12 -

• YB Sapsucker - at least 7, all im.
• E Pewee - 1
• Phoebe - 2
• Blue-headed Vireo - 5
• Carolina Wren - 5+
• Hermit Thrush - 2
• Yellow-rumped Warbler - 50+
• Black-and-White Warbler - 4
• Yellowthroat - 4
• Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1
• Parula Warbler - 1
• Blue Grosbeak - 1
• Lincoln's Sparrow - 1
• Pine Siskins - 1 flock of 30, and 2 others

A later stop in Auburn yielded 2 Tennessee Warblers, and a feeding station with 50+ Pine Siskins and 15+ Purple Finches. 

 

 

Mike Resch

Pepperell, MA

www.statebirding.blogspot.com

 

 

 

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