[Maine-birds] Birding By Schooner Tour report, 7/20-25 (RBTR, AMOY, GRCO, REPH, WISP, alcids, WODU, etc)

Hi all,

I have posted the trip report - with photos and a complete annotated checklist - of our annual birding tour aboard the Schooner Lewis R. French out of Camden:

https://mebirdingfieldnotes.wordpress.com/2015/07/26/birding-by-schooner-trip-report-2015/

In brief, highlights included:

- THE RED-BILLED TROPICBIRD, Seal Island, 7/22 + 23.

- One pair AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS, Little Green Island, 7/22 - a new "Schooner Bird" for me!

- GREAT CORMORANTS at their Seal Island colony, 7/22-23, and one at Saddleback Ledge, 7/23.

- Red Phalaropes: 6 between Little Green and Seal Islands, 7/22.

- Wilson's Storm-Petrels: unusually common within Penobscot Bay, some just outside of Camden Harbor. 400+ between Little Green and Seal on 7/22.

- Atlantic Puffins at Eastern Egg Rock on 7/21 and Seal Island 7/22-23.

- Razorbills: a few dozen total in and around Seal Island, but several fathers with chicks well within Penobscot Bay.

- 1 WOOD DUCK: fly-by at Seal Island, 7/23.

- 79 total species.

-Derek

 

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Derek and Jeannette Lovitch
Freeport Wild Bird Supply
541 Route One, Suite 10
Freeport, ME 04032
207-865-6000
www.freeportwildbirdsupply.com

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