Re: (maine Birds) May 27, 2012 Mount Desert Island Birds Red-tailed Hawk
Down East Nature Tours
May 27, 2012 Mount Desert Island Birds Red-tailed Hawk
Acadia National Park Great
Meadow , Hancock, US-ME
May 27, 2012 7:40 AM - 9:40
AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.5 mile(s)
Comments: Jon and Margery
Hollman from Massachusetts had a wonderful experience in Great Meadow. Swamp
Sparrow sat 10 feet away calling, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Alder Flycatchers are
here in mass and the Pileated Woodpecker is drumming loudly again this morning.
No surprises.
15 species
Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) 13 Over Dorr
Mountain and around Great meadow
Broad-winged Hawk (Buteo platypterus)
1
Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus) 1
Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus
pileatus) 1 drumming
Alder Flycatcher
(Empidonax alnorum) 2 FOY in this location
Ovenbird (Seiurus
aurocapilla) 2
Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia) 1
Common
Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas) 7
American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla)
5
Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia) 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler (Setophaga
pensylvanica) 1
Swamp Sparrow (Melospiza georgiana) 3
Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea) 1
calling on Dorr Mountain
Purple Finch (Carpodacus purpureus) 1
American
Goldfinch (Spinus tristis) 1
Hadley Point MDI ,
Hancock, US-ME
May 27, 2012 9:20 AM - 9:50 AM
Protocol:
Stationary
Comments: Jon and Margery Hollman from Massachusetts. A little
time was spent near the water and a few good birds were found including an
Immature light brown RED-TAILED HAWK sitting in the inter tidal zone being
attacked by Crows.
12 species
Surf Scoter (Melanitta perspicillata)
150 large rafts around the Lamoine shoreline.
White-winged Scoter (Melanitta fusca) 6
A flock of 4 males and 2 females
Common Loon (Gavia immer) 1
calling
Red-tailed Hawk
(Buteo jamaicensis)
1 Immature light brown bird sitting
in the tidal zone on the Lamoine side of the narrows.
Herring Gull (Larus
argentatus) 250
Red-eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus) 1
American Crow (Corvus
brachyrhynchos) 5
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) 1
American
Robin (Turdus migratorius) 1
Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla)
1
Black-throated Green Warbler (Setophaga virens) 1
American Goldfinch
(Spinus tristis) 1
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