[Maine-birds] Some recent MDI birds....

I have been fortunate to get out birding quite a bit this past week. Here are some highlights:

 

-          30 September (the last day you could legally be in Acadia National Park) at Great Head in Acadia National Park; I was guest lecturer for Steve Ressel’s ecology & natural history class at College of the Atlantic.

60 Yellow Warblers was a goodly number

1 Yellow Warbler

1 Palm Warbler

1 Black-throated Green Warbler

 

-          02 October. I went on the Bar Harbor Whale Watch with David & Janet James. Highlights were:

1 Black-legged Kittiwake

8 Surf Scoter

~400 Great Shearwater

34 Northern Gannet

4 Northern Fulmar

1 Great Cormorant

Seen from our boat while 25 miles offshore, standing off Mount Desert Rock:

1 Rusty Blackbird!

1 Common Yellowthroat landed on the boat!

1 Yellow-rumped Warbler

1 unidentified warbler

 

-          04 October at MDI High School:

1 Rusty Blackbird

1 Lincoln’s Sparrow

1 Tufted Titmouse (this is an unusual location for this bird on MDI)

 

-          06 October along the Bar Harbor Shore Path:

1 American Kestrel

 

 

Richard MacDonald

The Natural History Center

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