[Maine-birds] Re: (Maine Birds) Mount Desert Island Birds: No Snowy Owls on Cadillac south or west ridge

Mount Desert Island Birds: Ravens on Cadillac no SNOW

ANP The Featherbed, Hancock, US-ME
Dec 9, 2012 10:35 AM - 1:35 PM
Protocol: Traveling
6.0 mile(s)
Comments: Steve Demers, me and Nico ambitiously took off up Cadillac South Ridge Trail to The Featherbed where we encountered Ravens. One Raven responded very nicely to a series of calls that I use by calling back in a similar manners and displaying with 360 and 180 rolls for 8-12 different rolls. From The Featherbed we followed the West Ridge Trail in search of Snowy Owls....which we did not find anywhere on the Cadillac southern ridge. They are a winter time denizen of Acadia National Park but today they were not present. Close encounters with typical forest species.
5 species (+1 other taxa)

American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) 1
Common Raven (Corvus corax) 2
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) 9
Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) 5
Golden-crowned Kinglet (Regulus satrapa) 3
finch sp. (Fringillidae sp.) 1 One in flight, white undertail covert feathers suggested Common Redpoll, moving east over the West Ridge of Cadillac
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