Sunday, 12 May 2013

[Maine-birds] RE: (Maine Birds) Mount Desert Island Birds: Blackburnian, Black-throated Blue and Eastern Kingbird

Mount Desert Island Birds:  Blackburnian, Black-throated Blue and Eastern Kingbird

Every year since about 1980, Earlham College alumni have been part of a birding tradition starting with EC professors Bill Buskirk and Jim Cope to raise money for the college known as EC Birding Big Day.  Several years ago Bill was on a field trip in New Zealand and decided to expand on the concept.  Now we have EC alumni all around the world counting birds and carrying on the tradition of a spring bird count...now international in scope. I am thankful to be part of this informal international count and appreciated the time in the field.   With migration really in the beginning phases here on MDI,  it turned into an amazing day  including flocks of tropical migrants like Blackburnian and Black-throated Blue Warbler, Eastern Kingbird and large mixed flocks of birds between Raindrops. By the end of the day the winds were gusting and probably still full of new arrivals.  Thanks to Bill Buskirk for keeping the tradition going.     

 

Earlham College Birding Big Day May 10/11, 2013:  Species Totals

Report Details

Date range:

May 10-11, 2013

Total # of Species:

64

Total # of Checklists:

14

Location(s):   Babson Creek MCHT ; Bass harbor Marsh Abner's Bridge Tremont Maine; Breakneck Road Acadia National Park ; Brookside Cemetery Somesville; Hadley Point MDI ; Lookout Point Hulls Cove; Meadowbrook Marsh Town Hill ; Somesville Mill Pond ; Southwest Harbor MDI ; The Bar Bar Harbor ; Three Pines Bird Sanctuary 2013; Three Pines Bird Sanctuary Hadley Farm Road; Town Hill 2013; Valley Cove Trail

 

Summary

 

May 10

May 11

Number of Species

1

63

Number of Individuals

1

427

Number of Checklists

1

13

 

Total Number of Birds   (sample size)

Species Name

May 10

May 11

Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)

--

8
(2)

American Black Duck (Anas rubripes)

--

3
(2)

Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)

--

12
(2)

Common Eider (Somateria mollissima)

--

6
(2)

White-winged Scoter (Melanitta fusca)

--

5
(1)

Common Merganser (Mergus merganser)

--

4
(2)

Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)

--

4
(2)

Common Loon (Gavia immer)

--

5
(3)

Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps grisegena)

--

2
(1)

Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus)

--

11
(2)

Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)

--

1
(1)

Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)

--

2
(2)

Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)

--

4
(2)

Accipiter sp. (Accipiter sp.)

--

1
(1)

Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

--

3
(2)

Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)

--

3
(1)

Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla)

--

1
(1)

Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)

--

108
(4)

Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus)

--

2
(2)

Rock Pigeon (Columba livia)

--

9
(1)

Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)

--

2
(2)

Northern Saw-whet Owl (Aegolius acadicus)

1
(1)

--

Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris)

--

1
(1)

Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens)

--

1
(1)

Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus)

--

1
(1)

Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)

--

5
(4)

Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe)

--

2
(2)

Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus)

--

1
(1)

Blue-headed Vireo (Vireo solitarius)

--

2
(2)

Red-eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus)

--

1
(1)

Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)

--

3
(2)

American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)

--

12
(3)

Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)

--

21
(5)

Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)

--

1
(1)

Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis)

--

3
(3)

White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)

--

4
(2)

Brown Creeper (Certhia americana)

--

5
(1)

Winter Wren (Troglodytes hiemalis)

--

4
(3)

Golden-crowned Kinglet (Regulus satrapa)

--

4
(1)

Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus)

--

6
(3)

American Robin (Turdus migratorius)

--

10
(6)

Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis)

--

1
(1)

Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia)

--

14
(2)

Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas)

--

1
(1)

American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla)

--

1
(1)

Northern Parula (Setophaga americana)

--

9
(3)

Blackburnian Warbler (Setophaga fusca)

--

1
(1)

Black-throated Blue Warbler (Setophaga caerulescens)

--

1
(1)

Palm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum)

--

4
(1)

Pine Warbler (Setophaga pinus)

--

2
(2)

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata)

--

42
(7)

Black-throated Green Warbler (Setophaga virens)

--

14
(2)

warbler sp. (Parulinae sp.)

--

7
(1)

Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)

--

7
(4)

Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia)

--

6
(4)

Swamp Sparrow (Melospiza georgiana)

--

3
(2)

White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis)

--

3
(2)

Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)

--

3
(1)

Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)

--

1
(1)

Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)

--

2
(1)

Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula)

--

1
(1)

Purple Finch (Haemorhous purpureus)

--

5
(4)

Pine Siskin (Spinus pinus)

--

9
(1)

American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis)

--

7
(5)

 

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