MACHIAS SEAL ISLAND REPORT

[RALPH ELDRIDGE]

Here are the results of today's CBC.

CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT - MACHIAS SEAL ISLAND - 2023


Name of area:        MACHIAS SEAL ISLAND
Sky & precipitation:       MAINLY SUNNY; ZERO PRECIPITATION
Ground & water conditions:   BARE GROUND; FRESH & SALT WATER UNFROZEN WATER FROZEN.
Date: DEC. 25th; 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Temp: +6°C to +9°C.
Wind direction: WSW @ 3 knots to 8 Knots (3mph / 6kmph to 7mph / 13kmph) 
Total participants:  01 (01 field observers in 01 field parties, plus 01 persons at 01 feeders). 
Total party-hours: 09 hrs. (03 hrs. on foot; 0 hrs. motorized; 06 hrs. point observations.)   
Total party travel = 3.5 kilometers (3.5 km on foot, 0 km by car.) 
Compiler: RALPH ELDRIDGE


07   Canada Goose       
11   Great Black-backed Gull   
01   Dovekie   
01   Atlantic Puffin
04   Common Murre       
07   Common Eider       
516 Razorbill
09   Black Guillemot   
63   Harlequin Duck     
27   Surf Scoter       
02   White-winged Scoter       
01   Black Scoter       
37   Long-tailed Duck
11    Red-breasted Merganser   
02   Red-throated Loon 
05   Common Loon       
06   Northern Gannet
03   Double Crested Cormorant
19   Great Cormorant
483 Black-legged Kittiwake     
01   Ring-billed Gull 
268 Herring Gull       
10   Iceland Gull             
04  Glaucous Gull               
02  Common Raven       
01   Peregrine Falcon
04  Bald Eagle 
72   Purple Sandpiper
03   Snow Bunting
03   Song Sparrow       
01   White-throated Sparrow     
02   European Starling
02   Dark-eyed Junco   

01 COMMON GRACKLE (CW)
01 BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD (CW)
01 NORTHERN FULMAR (CW)
07 AMERICAN GOLDFINCH (CW)

Totals: 1588 individuals of 33 species on count day plus 4 additional species during count week & period.