[Maine-birds] Maine-New Hampshire Tour results (163 species), 6/16-22

Hi all,

 

I just completed my comprehensive 9-day (7 full days of birding) Maine-New Hampshire tour for WINGS.  We logged just about 1200 miles, and a total of 163 species.  22 species were seen on all seven days.

 

Highlights included (locations for rare or unexpected birds seen only once):

- BRANT: 1 Pine Point, Scarborough, 6/16.

- White-winged Scoter: 16, Pine Point Beach, 6/16.

- Long-tailed Duck: 6 Simpson's Point, Brunswick, 6/22.

- Red-throated Loon: 1 Pine Point Beach, 6/16.

- NORTHERN FULMAR: 1, off Bar Harbor, 6/21.

- Great Shearwater: 125 off Bar Harbor, 6/21.

- Sooty Shearwater: 6 off Bar Harbor, 6/21.

- Leach's Storm-Petrel: 18+ with 500+ Wilson's Storm-Petrels, off Bar Harbor, 6/21.

- GREAT CORMORANT: 1 immature, Sand Beach, Acadia National Park, 6/22.

- SANDHILLS CRANE: 2 Messalonskee Lake, 6/18.

- Black-bellied Plover: 4, Pine Point, 6/16.

- AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS: 3 Pine Point, 6/16.

- Upland Sandpipers: 4, Kennebunk Plains, 6/16.

- Black Terns: 15+ Messalonskee Lake, 6/18.

- Common Murre

- Razorbill

- Atlantic Puffin

- Black-backed Woodpecker: 1 nest w/ 4 young and both adults seen, Trudeau Road, White Mountain NF, NH (thanks to Duane Cross and Steve Mirick for the specifics). 

- Olive-sided Flycatcher

- Philadelphia Vireo  (NH only).

- Red-eyed Vireo: every day of course, but one out on Machias Seal Island was a surprise.

- Gray Jay

- Boreal Chickadee (three days).

- BICKNELL'S THRUSH (two days; NH only).

- 20 species of warblers (low; a few holes on the list)

- CLAY-COLORED SPARROW: 1 continuing bird in the Kennebunk Plains

- no crossbill, siskins, or Evening Grosbeak.

 

I'll have more on my blog in coming days, and photos to Flickr and the store's Facebook Page.

 

-Derek

 

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Freeport Wild Bird Supply
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