[Maine-birds] Mt. Desert Rock sightings

Good morning --

Joined a group trip to Mt. Desert Rock yesterday, sponsored by College of the Atlantic, to celebrate 43 years of undergraduate field research opportunities and the rebuilding of the station after Hurricane Bill's damage in 2009. MDR lies about 22 miles out from Bar Harbor, and is a speck of rock with very sparse vegetation.

Birds on the Rock itself:

Cape May Warbler - 1 actively foraging insects from roof, rafters, windowsills

B-h Cowbird - 1 male in full ugly molt

Purple Finch - 1 feeding on thistle heads

N. Flicker - 1

R-b Nuthatch - 1 in boathouse and otherwise behaving like the CMWA

Lincoln's Sparrow! - 1 skulking in boulder crevices near house

Common Yellowthroat - 1 female

Merlin - 1

Am. Kestrel - 1 perching everywhere and feeding on what might have been an oriole

Peregrine Falcon - 1

Ruddy Turnstone - 17

Least Sandpiper - 2

Semi Sandpiper - 3

Great Cormorant - 3+

Birds along the way out and in:

Common Tern - 2

Pomarine Jaeger - 1

N. Gannet - fewer than expected (20?)

Great Shearwater

Phalarope (probably Reds), multiple small flocks near the Rock

Common Eider

Cheers, all.

Craig

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