Blue Grosbeak and other birds at Grand Manan

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Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 17:59:49 -0300
From: Roger Burrows, NatureNB
Subject: Grand Manan birds, inc. BLUE GROSBEAK, INDIGO BUNTING & DICKCISSEL

October 8
Ingalls Head 09:00-09:45
Great Blue Heron, 2 Mallards, Common Yellowthroat, INDIGO BUNTING; no sign of the COMMON RINGED PLOVER or its tracks at the same state of the tide as Tuesday!

Ox Head 10:05-11:00
adult Bald Eagle, 21 Yellow-rumped Warblers, Common Yellowthroat, immature BLUE GROSBEAK, adult female DICKCISSEL, Lincoln's Sparrow

Ingalls Head Road 11:40-12:15 & 15:15-15:45
24 Double-crested Cormorants, 8 Mallards, 8 Red-breasted Mergansers, Eastern Phoebe

Grand Harbour 12:15-12:55
Great Blue Heron, 253 Canada Geese, male American Wigeon, 130 American Black Ducks, 8 red-breasted Mergansers, 58 Black-bellied Plovers, 2 American Golden-Plovers (inc. adult still largely in breeding plumage), 2 Killdeers, Red Knot, Yellowq-rumped Warbler, immature White-crowned Sparrow

Ingalls Head feeder 18:00
Gray Catbird

Roger Burrows
Ingalls Head
Grand Manan


Photo Credit Male Blue Grosbeak: wikipedia.com