After 17 days we are closing in on 40,000 birds * !
OF NOTE: Today marked 2nd day for the Townsend's Solitaire. It made an appearance (5 minutes) at 12:30 PM.
Highlights from today (6 hours of observation):
Red-throated Loon 76
Common Loon 35 Last few days have seen dramatic shift in loon ratio. Up until Monday COLO outnumbered RTLO. It is now approx. 2:1 the other way around.
Red-breasted Merganser 259 (single best day since monitoring began several years ago).
Long-tailed Duck 204 (another best)
All three species of scoters still on the move but in lower numbers than mid to late October.
Northern Gannets continue, today 46 counted at Schoodic Point.
Other noteworthy information: Increase recently in Spruce Grouse sightings. As reported by Staff (daily) and some visitors who are traveling the Schoodic Loop Road
between entrance to new Schoodic Woods portion of ANP and Schoodic Point (about 6 miles).
* Combined effort with Otter Point on MDI
Resource Link: https://raptor.specteo.com
Imagine sustained monitoring effort at Pemaquid Point or Dyer Point ???
Anybody want to network ?
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