Great influx today--I saw almost as many warblers today as the rest of my trip put together. I knew it was going to be good when I saw about a dozen Black-and-white Warblers in one tree before breakfast. Nothing rare or unusual, but just great fun to come upon pockets of birds all day long. Lots more Yellow-rumps, kinglets of both types, flickers--if that could be possible--and sapsuckers at every turn...
Highlights for me (and I wasn't going for numbers so much as quality of experience today--i.e. a lot of sitting in one spot waiting for whatever streams by) included:
Broad-winged Hawk-4 juvenile birds, my first sighting of them out here (apparently 6 total seen here today)
N. Harrier-lots! including several more "gray ghosts"
Merlin-lots! including one eating a vireo right out in the open at very close range to me
Great Blue Heron-1, landed in a spruce at the Ice Pond as a bunch of us were scanning warblers
Cape May Warbler-more great looks at several birds, always cool
Chestnut-sided Warbler-3, not unusual, of course, but I hadn't seen one until today and I love these guys in fall
Reported by others but not seen by me:
Ring-billed Gull-1 (David Gulick)
Bonaparte's Gull
Red-bellied Woodpecker-1, near Ice Pond
Lark Sparrow-1 continues
Dickcissel-1 continues
And the star of the day... House Sparrow-1, reported in lobster traps down by the wharf. Yes, this is a very uncommon bird out here.
And I'm sure I'm leaving out a lot of other things seen today--Winter Wren, Swainson's Thrush, YB Cuckoo, Wood Duck, Baltimore Oriole, those killer looks at a male BT Blue Warbler--you get the idea...
Kristen
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Kristen Lindquist
12 Mount Battie St.
Camden, ME 04843
www.klindquist.blogspot.com
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