[Maine-birds] Otter Cliffs (Acadia Nat. Park) seawatch - RAZO, CATE, TEWA

While Seth Benz was doing his seawatch over on the tip of Schoodic Peninsula yesterday, I was doing one on Mount Desert Island at Otter Cliffs. We will be doing this weekly until Thanksgiving, so come on by to check it out (Thursdays, 7-9:30 1.a.m.). The highlights of yesterday’s seawatch included a Razorbill, a pair of Caspian Terns (one adult, one immature), and a Tenessee Warbler. The morning’s complete list:

464 Common Eider

12 Surf Scoter

5 Common Loon

8 Northern Gannet

113 Double-crested Cormorant

1 Osprey

1 Bald Eagle

1 Razorbill

6 Black Guillemot

2 Bonaparte’s Gull

100 Herring Gull

3 Great Black-backed Gull

2 Caspian Tern

1 Northern Flicker

1 Merlin

1 Peregrine Falcon

1 Blue Jay

2 American Crow

3 Black-capped Chickadee

3 Red-breasted Nuthatch

1 Golden-crowned Kinglet

4 Cedar Waxwing

1 Tennessee Warbler

5 Yellow-rumped Warbler

2 Black-throated Green Warbler

1 Dark-eyed Junco

2 American Goldfinch

Richard MacDonald

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