[Maine-birds] Schoodic Peninsula, 10/14

I gambled on the weather and was lucky, it stopped raining before I got there, c. 1:30 PM. 

On the stone causeway just before Frazer Pt., and the little peninsula there on the right:

Belted Kingfisher

Wilson's Snipe (in tall grass by the inlet)

Lesser Yellowlegs (5; in shallow water in the same inlet)

White-throated Sparrow (5-6)

White-crowned Sparrow (1)

Song Sparrow (many)

Dark-eyed Junco (3-4)

Mystery Sparrow (5-6; clear creamy breast but for one small, centered dark spot, higher up toward the neck than the field guides show for American Tree Sparrow. Lots of gray around the head, with alternating thin brown and black stripes in the crown. So, a breast sort of like American Tree Sparrow, but a crown more like a winter Chipping Sparrow. I'll never get sparrows.)

Schoodic Pt:

Northern Gannets (30+, migrating steadily as individuals and loose bunches of 2-5)

Elsewhere:

Lesser Yellowlegs (4)

Merlin

Yellow-rumped Warblers (8-10 in the Frazer Pt. parking lot; maybe a kinglet or two in there)

Common sparrows (frequent small flocks)

Joel Wilcox

Cherryfield

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