Last night's dreary weather kept a lot of birds on the island today. I came up with 91 species today: 15 different warblers and 11 sparrows including a Nelson's Sparrow in Lobster Cove. The number of falcons out here was also stunning: 6 Peregrines in the air at one time at Lobster Cove, 13+ Merlins constantly bombing around the island and a handful of kestrels to round it out. And of course the rarities:
BELL'S VIREO - found in the late afternoon along the Under Hill Trail. It flew in close enough that I could ID it naked eye but quickly took to further perch and only allowed a couple photos before departing. I wasn't able to relocate it after the initial sighting: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dhitchcox/8058215696/
RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD - have to give my dad props for spotting this Selasphorus hummingbird a couple days ago then getting great photos first thing this morning. Although it is very green-backed, there appears to be plenty of rufous coloring near the base of the tail, and more importantly r5 looks wide enough to be out of the realm of Allen's: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dhitchcox/8058215655/
Orchard Oriole - this is an exceptionally late date for this species in New England: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dhitchcox/8058214385/
Here is a full checklist: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S11722055
Good birding,
Doug Hitchcox
Hollis, ME
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