Grand Manan Birds

Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 20:14:18 -0300
From: Roger Burrows NBNature listserv
Subject: North Head & Grand Manan birds, inc. Red-throated Loon, Red-shouldered Hawk, Purple Sandpiper, alcids, Brown Thrasher

May 20

North Head-Marathon Inn & Moses Lane woods 06:30-08:00
singing Winter Wren, all three mimids, inc. singing Brown Thrasher & Gray
Catbird pair on nest, 25 Cedar Waxwings, 11 wood-warblers plus an
as-yet-to-be identified singing warbler, 6+ male Bobolinks, 2 male
Rose-breasted Grosbeaks

Circum-navigation of Grand Manan on the "Elsie Menota" 10:00-17:00
7 Red-throated & 7 Common Loons, Great Cormorant, 11+ Northern Gannets, 2
Great Blue Heron, in. one well out to sea, 200 Common Eiders, 5 Bald Eagles,
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, Red-tailed Hawk, 2 Peregrine Falcons, 42+ Purple
Sandpipers, 3 Black-legged Kittiwakes, 30+ Razorbills, 210+ Common Murres,
57+ Black Guillemots, 6+ Atlantic Puffins, Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Common Murres and a few Razorbills were back on Yellow Murr Ledge; we also
saw Harbour & Gray Seals and Harbour Porpoises.

Roger Burrows
Ingalls Head
Grand Manan

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