[Maine-birds] Matinicus CBC

Hi all,

 

Apologies for being remiss in not getting this out sooner but Bob Duchesne and Rich MacDonald joined me on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2016 to fly out for the day to do the 11^th annual Matinicus CBC.

 

It was a beautiful day on the island and quite warm for the most part. We had 44 species and although we didn’t find any real rarities we enjoyed some half-hardies like Yellow-rumped Warber, Winter Wren, Hermit Thrush, and Northern Flicker. Our most unusual sighting was a flock of about 100 Common Grackles. Many of our waterbird numbers seemed on the low side but about the same cast of characters as in past years. We did have Hairy Woodpecker and White-breasted Nuthatch, both species that we have only found in 4 of the past 11 years. We missed the turkeys but saw lots of their tracks so they were somewhere on the island!

 

Pasted in below is the full list. First column in number seen this year, second column is the high count for this CBC and the year in which it was registered, third column is number of years that the species has been recorded on this CBC.

 

Thanks Bob and Rich for a great day!

 

Jeff

 

Count Summary Report

Printout Date: 1/6/2016

 

American Black Duck	4		62/110	11
Common Eider	63		260/106	11
White-winged Scoter	5		50/110	11
Black Scoter	11		15/115	10
Long-tailed Duck	65		86/110	11
Common Goldeneye	20		20/116	7
Red-breasted Merganser	9		34/110	11
Red-throated Loon	1		1/116	5
Common Loon	9		13/114	11
Horned Grebe	2		2/116	3
Red-necked Grebe	2		27/115	6
Northern Gannet	8		40/107	7
Great Cormorant	1		16/110	11
Bald Eagle	1		4/106	9
Purple Sandpiper	9		35/115	5
large alcid sp.	2		48/111	4
Black Guillemot	12		25/114	11
Black-legged Kittiwake	1		77/106	9

 

Ring-billed Gull	1		12/106	8
Herring Gull	70		170/115	11
Great Black-backed Gull	5		40/107	11
Mourning Dove	6		59/109	11
Downy Woodpecker	5		5/116	11
Hairy Woodpecker	1		3/108	4
Northern Flicker (Yellow- shafted)	1		4/111	6
Blue Jay	1		7/106	10
American Crow	25		88/108	11
Common Raven	1		5/110	11
Black-capped Chickadee	45		86/107	11
Red-breasted Nuthatch	13		28/107	11
White-breasted Nuthatch	1		2/110	4
Brown Creeper	2		2/116	6
Winter Wren	1		3/112	5
Golden-crowned Kinglet	16		34/107	11
Hermit Thrush	1		1/116	1
European Starling	15		31/107	6
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)	2		29/107	3
Dark-eyed Junco	19		107/107	7
White-throated Sparrow	19		31/114	9
Song Sparrow	6		14/107	10
Northern Cardinal	11		11/116	11
Common Grackle	100	HC,	100/116	3
Pine Siskin	3		13/109	5
American Goldfinch	15		52/112	7
Total Individuals	610
Total Species Reported	44