[Maine-birds] Monhegan Island, 9/19-24

Hi all,
I enjoyed six glorious days on Monhegan Island with my biennial WINGS tour. We finished with 111 species on the island.

Highlights for our group each day included:
9/19: Balmy Days ferry from Boothbay Harbor:
- 1 Long-tailed Duck (FOF)
- 1 Pomarine Jaeger
- 1 Cory's Shearwater

Island:
- 1 female Orchard Oriole
- 1 Lark Sparrow
-1 Clay-colored Sparrow
- 1 Carolina Wren

9/20:
- 1 CONNECTICUT WARBLER
- 2 juvenile Yellow-crowned Night-Herons
- 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- 1 Lark Sparrow
- 1 Clay-colored Sparrow
- 2 American Golden-Plovers
- 1 Cory's Shearwater
- 1 Greater Shearwater
- 1 Carolina Wren

9/21:
- 1 CONNECTICUT WARBLER
- 1 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
- 3 Dickcissels
- 1 Clay-colored Sparrow
- 10 Cory's and 12 Great Shearwaters plus 125 large shearwater sp.
- 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
- 1 Eastern Kingbird
- 1 Warbling Vireo

9/24:
- 1 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
- 1 Yellow-throated Vireo
- 1 Olive-sided Flycatcher
- 2 Dickcissels
- 1 American Golden-Plover
- 1 Clay-colored Sparrow
- 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- 1 Carolina Wren

9/23:
- 1 Black-billed Cuckoo
- 2 Dickcissels
- 2 Cory's Shearwaters
- 1 White-crowned Sparrow (FOF)
- pair of Pine Warblers were our 18th species of warbler on the week (a little low).

9/24:
- 2 American Pipits (FOF)
- 1 Dickcissel

Ferry back to Boothbay Harbor:
- 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (about half way)
- 2 White-winged Scoters

-Derek

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