[Maine-birds] Matinicus CBC results

I was joined by Juanita Roushdy and Mike Fahay on January 4^th for a pleasant but increasingly windy day on Matinicus Island for the annual CBC. Our list, though fewer in species than the Monhegan CBC, was otherwise remarkably similar. We had 41 species (full list below). Highlights included clouds of White-winged Crossbills, a couple of Northern Gannets, a Red-winged Blackbird, a Carolina Wren (actually they have become regular now), a Merlin, and my personal favorite, two Sanderlings on the one small sand beach on the island. There was more snow on the island then I remember in any of the last 7 or 8 years that I have been doing the count which may account for the lack of juncos and white-throats.

 

Jeff Wells

 

American Black Duck	19
Common Eider	55
White-winged Scoter	14
Black Scoter	14
Surf Scoter	5
Long-tailed Duck	17
Red-breasted Merganser	10
Bufflehead	3
Common Goldeneye	14
Ring-necked Pheasant	1
Wild Turkey	13
Common Loon	9
Red-throated Loon	1
Northern Gannet	2 adults
Horned Grebe	1
Red-necked Grebe	3
Great Cormorant	9
Sharp-shinned Hawk	1
Merlin	1
Bald Eagle	2
Sanderling	2
Herring Gull	26
Great Black-backed Gull	2
Ring-billed Gull	6
Alcid sp	1
Black Guillemot	6
Mourning Dove	2
Downy Woodpecker	1
Blue Jay	1
American Crow	18
Common Raven	2
Black-capped Chickadee	39
Red-breasted Nuthatch	16
Carolina Wren	1
Brown Creeper	2
Golden-crowned Kinglet	4
Song Sparrow	2
Northern Cardinal	5
White-winged Crossbill	200
Common Redpoll	2
Red-winged Blackbird	1 female