[Maine-birds] Big Sit, Wharton Point, Sunday

Wharton Point, Brunswick
Oct 11, 2015 6:00 AM - 5:15 PM

Big Sit! - Merrymeeting Audubon Anchored by Gordan Smith
55 species

Canada Goose 6
American Black Duck 340
Mallard 8
Green-winged Teal 2
Common Eider 3
Surf Scoter 35
Bufflehead 1 Adult male (diving) with eiders and scoters some distance offshore.
Red-throated Loon 2
Horned Grebe 1
Red-necked Grebe 1
WILSON'S STORM-PETTEL 1 First observed flying (swallow-like flight) low along the shoreline about 50 yards in front of the Big Sit! circle. The bird then wheeled around and turned to fly inland directly over the Big Sit! circle (observed by 5 birders present). The bird then gained altitude and flew northeast out of sight over the tree line. Other than the obvious white wraparound rump, the bird appeared generally sooty black (especially from below). The tail did not appear notched. Photos taken.
Double-crested Cormorant 15
Great Blue Heron 5
Great Egret 1
Snowy Egret 4
Turkey Vulture 7
Osprey 3
Northern Harrier 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 4
Cooper's Hawk 1
Bald Eagle 4
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Black-bellied Plover 6
Greater Yellowlegs 4
Dunlin 7
Wilson's Snipe 3 Vocal flyover group before sunup.
Bonaparte's Gull 9
Laughing Gull 12 Resting birds at boat landing at high tide with other gulls.
Ring-billed Gull 130
Herring Gull 40
Great Black-backed Gull 3
Mourning Dove 11
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1
American Kestrel 2
Merlin 2
Blue Jay 14
American Crow 15
Common Raven 1
Black-capped Chickadee 5
Tufted Titmouse 3
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Eastern Bluebird 9
Palm Warbler (Yellow) 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 7
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 1
White-crowned Sparrow 8
White-throated Sparrow 6
Savannah Sparrow 3
Song Sparrow 24
Swamp Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 2
DICKCISSEL 1
House Finch 12
American Goldfinch 20


Stella

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