Hi all,
My non-Sandy Point highlights over the past seven days included the following:
- Monhegan Island, 10/4 (with clients from Maine):
1 Dickcissel
Unbelievable Peregrine Falcon show including an astounding kettle of 18!
7 Wood Ducks
- Monhegan Island, 10/4 (with Jeannette):
1 subvirgatus Nelson's Sparrow
1 continuing YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON
- Monhegan Island, 10/5 (with Jeannette):
1 continuing Dickcissel
1 Red Crossbill
1 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
2-5 Yellow-billed Cuckoos! Either we had insane luck resighting the same two birds, or there were a lot of cuckoos around!
1 Black-billed Cuckoo
Probably would have seen a lot more "good" birds today if we didn't spend so much time not seeing the continuing Black-backed Woodpecker
- Monhegan Island, 10/5 (with Jeannette):
1 continuing RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
1 Gray-cheeked Thrush
1 Clay-colored Sparrow
2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
1 continuing Dickcissel
1 presumed continuing subvirgatus Nelson's Sparrow
1 Marsh Wren
4 Pine Warblers (my record high out here)
- 2 AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS, Dry Ledges off of Allen Island from Port Clyde ferry, 10/5 (with Jeannette).
Away from Monhegan and Sandy Point:
- 1 CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, Wolfe's Neck Farm, Freeport, 10/7.
- 2 Yellow-billed Cuckoos, Fort Foster, Kittery, 10/8 (with clients from NY).
- Pine Siskins have arrived en masse on the southern Coastal Plain this week.
Isn't October birding grand!?
Meanwhile, I finally posted a blog with photos and daily birdlists from my Monhegan Tour the previous weekend:
And don't forget about Monday's Boothbay Pelagic. We will be chumming, and the weather looks pretty darn good at the moment!
-Derek
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Derek and Jeannette Lovitch
Freeport Wild Bird Supply
541 Route One, Suite 10
Freeport, ME 04032
207-865-6000
www.freeportwildbirdsupply.com
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