[Maine-birds] Monhegan highlights, 5.18-5.19.13

Just returned from a 3-day weekend on Monhegan. Highlights of the past two days, in addition to the birds I reported on Friday, include:

Saturday, 5.18.13--

2 additional warblers: Pine-2 and Blackburnian-2. Also, on Friday my husband Paul saw a Bay-breasted at the Ice Pond; on Saturday I saw one on the Underhill Trail, nice singing male. Still many parulas around, followed in numbers by Common Yellowthroats.

Hunting Merlin, Sharp-shinned Hawk, and flyover Osprey. 

At least 2 Warbling Vireos.

Finally, a Winter Wren singing down near Lobster Cove. None along Red Ribbon Trail when we walked it, but someone else reported one singing there later. 

Red-bellied Woodpecker near the Ice Pond. 

Seen by others but not by us: Evening Grosbeak (1 female seen by two different parties).

Saturday afternoon, Chris Borg shared an intriguing report. Hearing crows mobbing something in the woods, he went looking for them in anticipation of finding an owl. He couldn't get close enough in the woods, but a couple he ran into reported seeing an owl fly across the trail: flat face, no ear tufts, white-speckled gray back, very dark. I don't think there are any records of Barred Owl on Monhegan.

Saturday evening, Chris Borg and Sue and Paul Hitchcox, and I sat at the edge of the Ballfield, at the urging of Pat Moynihan and Marion Zimmerman, and waited until 8:20 for an American Woodcock to show up and eventually do his skydance. He was joined by a second one. Pat and Marion had seen them on Friday night, as well. Pat also successfully elicited a response from a Virginia Rail in the Meadow.

Sunday, 5.19.13--

1 additional warbler: Chestnut-sided! Who would have thought that would be the last one I'd find? Final warbler species tally=17. No Ovenbird! (Others reported at least 1 on Friday.) Good species diversity today, just low numbers of most everything except parula and yellowthroat. 

Finally found today: Brown Thrasher, Veery, Least Flycatcher, FOY Red-eyed Vireo, Cedar Waxwings. More Warbling Vireos. 

Returned to Port Clyde on the 12:30 boat. Saw an Atlantic Puffin in breeding plumage en route. 

Kristen

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Kristen Lindquist
12 Mount Battie St.
Camden, ME 04843
www.klindquist.blogspot.com

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