[Maine-birds] RE: (Maine Birds) Mount Desert Island Birds: Blackpoll Warbler

Mount Desert Island Birds:  Blackpoll Warbler

Acadia National Park Great Meadow , Hancock, US-ME
May 6, 2013 7:45 AM - 9:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
3.5 mile(s)
Comments:     Blackpoll Warbler (Setophaga striata ) was heard at the junction of Jessup and the wooden bog trail. The high thin staccato and slightly monotonous call would be indiscernible twittering on the wind.  This male called about ten times and stayed at a distance in the taller Betula, sometime approaching me before disappearing on the wind. Each call lasted approximately the same length.  Easily accessible from the loop road this is a hot spot on MDI and worth the effort anytime of the day.  Not many warblers here but Swamp Sparrow males calling and squabbling over territory.  An amazing spring morning
17 species

Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)  1     high flying
Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens)  4     sky-pointing males  One female drumming  on Birch tree hollow log
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus)  1
Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)  1
Blue-headed Vireo (Vireo solitarius)  1     off of Dorr Mountain
Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)  2
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)  1
Common Raven (Corvus corax)  1
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)  3
Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus)  8     several small groups of birds. I chipped in several close by. a few short mating calls
Blackpoll Warbler (Setophaga striata)  1     clear calling and responding to phishing initially.Circling around near the bog trail. Then silent after 10 calls
Pine Warbler (Setophaga pinus)  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata)  2     Watch out for "nashville" call with the fast trill at the end of 3-4 note beginning.  Early on one wants to call them Nashville.
Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia)  1
Swamp Sparrow (Melospiza georgiana)  1
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)  1     male continues today
American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis)  2

Michael J. Good, MS
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15th Acadia Birding Festival, May 30-June 2, 2013
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