Jane and I just got back tonight from 3 days on Monhegan. We lucked out
with great weather, great friends, lots of birds, and a great flight
yesterday morning which included some dramatic sightings of 17 species
of passerines coming in from offshore at Lobster Cove, dodging the
efforts of a hungry Peregrine Falcon!
Mammals included one Muskrat, a scan count of 40 Harbor Porpoises and 3
Minke Whales from White Head. Also both Harbor and Gray Seals.
One Herp included a beautiful Smooth Green Snake.
Dragonflies included unidentified bluets on the Ice Pond, modest numbers
of Green Darners and mosaic darner sps., one or two Wanderling Gliders,
and a single Black Saddlebags, and lots of meadowhawks including Autumn
Meadowhawk and our first island Band-winged Meadowhawk. Butterflies
included only a very small number of Monarchs (with a maximum count of 5
today), quite a few Mourning Cloaks (some moving south toward Manana?!),
Cabbage Whites, Clouded and Orange Sulhurs, small numbers of Red
Admirals and two American Ladys, two Question Marks and one unidentified
skipper (photographed).
Not many photos, but here are a few:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40298884@N06/sets/72157635962308786/
Steve & Jane Mirick
Bradford, MA
Trip List (103 species) with my estimates - (9/25, 9/26, 9/27)
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Canada Goose 2 6 0
Wood Duck 0 1 0
Mallard 8 8 15
Green-winged Teal 1 3 1
Common Eider 100 150 X
Surf Scoter 0 1 0
White-winged Scoter 0 1 0
Surf/Black Scoter 0 1 0
Ring-necked Pheasant 0 2 1
Common Loon 1 7 2
Red-necked Grebe 0 1 0 (Lobster Cove)
Great Shearwater 0 9 0 (Distant birds from White Head)
Northern Gannet 10 25 2
Double-crested Cormorant 150 108 0
Great Cormorant 1 28 4
Great Blue Heron 0 2 2
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 0 0 1 (sitting on lobster traps and
staring into window of home!)
Osprey 6 1 0
Northern Harrier 6 8 3 (nice migration)
Sharp-shinned Hawk 2 3 2
Cooper's Hawk 0 0 1 (Thanks to Derek. My first island record)
Bald Eagle 1 1 2
Broad-winged Hawk 5 1 1 (all juveniles. My first island record)
Semipalmated Plover 2 0 0
Spotted Sandpiper 0 0 2
Whimbrel 0 0 1 (Migrating over island, calling)
Least Sandpiper 0 1 0
Black Guillemot 6 6 5
Laughing Gull 1 3 2
Ring-billed Gull 0 6 5
Herring Gull 350 300 X
Lesser Black-backed Gull 0 1 0 (Adult off White Head cliffs
with gull roost)
Great Black-backed Gull 100 100 X
Mourning Dove 1 3 1
Belted Kingfisher 2 0 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 3 8 5
Downy Woodpecker 2 2 1
Northern Flicker 12 34 20
American Kestrel 5 0 1
Merlin 13 10 3
Peregrine Falcon 10 5 3
Eastern Wood-Pewee 0 0 1
Least Flycatcher 0 0 1
Eastern Phoebe 0 3 8
Blue-headed Vireo 0 7 4
Philadelphia Vireo 0 1 0
Red-eyed Vireo 6 16 10
Blue Jay 6 13 6
American Crow 6 12 4
Common Raven 2 2 1
Black-capped Chickadee 7 12 10
Red-breasted Nuthatch 3 8 6
Brown Creeper 0 3 3
Winter Wren 1 3 0
Carolina Wren 4 4 4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 0 1 0
Golden-crowned Kinglet 2 20 X
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3 15 X
Hermit Thrush 0 1 0
American Robin 0 2 1
Gray Catbird 5 8 3
Brown Thrasher 0 1 2
Northern Mockingbird 1 0 1
European Starling 0 8 12
American Pipit 1 1 4
Cedar Waxwing 40 50 50
Black-and-white Warbler 1 25 8
Tennessee Warbler 0 1 2
Nashville Warbler 1 2 1
Mourning Warbler 0 0 1
Common Yellowthroat 2 7 10
Cape May Warbler 0 2 5
Northern Parula 0 6 2 (Including one that flew in from
offshore, but was downed by a Peregrine Falcon into the ocean about 50
yards out at Lobster Cove. It stayed in water for a full 15+ seconds
before lifting off the water and continuing to shore!)
Magnolia Warbler 0 18 4
Blackburnian Warbler 0 1 0
Yellow Warbler 0 5 2
Chestnut-sided Warbler 0 1 0
Blackpoll Warbler 3 5 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 0 4 3
Palm Warbler 1 18 8
Yellow-rumped Warbler 19 50 40
Prairie Warbler 0 1 0
Black-throated Green Warbler 2 10 3
Wilson's Warbler 0 2 2
Chipping Sparrow 0 4 6
Lark Sparrow 0 1 1 (Two different individuals)
Savannah Sparrow 0 11 10
Song Sparrow 16 15 10
Lincoln's Sparrow 1 0 1
Swamp Sparrow 3 3 2
White-throated Sparrow 5 25 4
White-crowned Sparrow 1 6 2
Dark-eyed Junco 0 0 1
Scarlet Tanager 0 1 0
Northern Cardinal 2 6 2
Dickcissel 0 1 0
Bobolink 2 1 1
Rusty Blackbird 1 3 7
Common Grackle 1 2 3
Baltimore Oriole 0 0 2
American Goldfinch 2 3 4
House Sparrow 0 0 1
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