[Maine-birds] Additional Highlights This Week, 9/5-11

 Hi all,

Just a few other tidbits of note over the past seven days for me included:

- 1 early "Yellow" Palm Warbler, Penellville Road, Brunswick, 9/5 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).

- 1 Pine Siskin (my first since early summer, I believe), Blackwoods Campground, Acadia NP, 9/8 (with Jeannette).

- 1 Prairie Warbler, Lower Hadley Pond, Acadia NP, 9/8 (with Jeannette).

- Whale watch with Bar Harbor Whale Watch Company, 9/8 (with Jeannette).

1770 (!) Wilson's Storm-Petrels

265 Great Shearwaters

83 Northern Gannets

54 Unidentified phalaropes

44 Red-necked Phalaropes

6 Atlantic Puffins

5 Manx Shearwaters

5 POMARINE JAEGERS (2 adult, 2 subadult, 1 unk; all light-morph; mostly photo'd)

5 Unidentified jaegers

2 Leach's Storm-Petrels

2 Red Phalaropes

2 Parasitic Jaegers (1 light adult, 1 dark juvenile)

1 CORY'S SHEARWATER

1 Sooty Shearwater

1 adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL

1 SOUTH POLAR SKUA (photos).

-84 Killdeer, Elmwood Road, Pownal, 9/10. 94 present on 9/11.

-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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