Bay of Fundy Birds - Grand Manan and White Head Islands

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Date: 6-7 Mar 20100
From: Roger Burrows Nature NB
Subject: White Head birds

March 6

White Head Ferry 09:50-10:30
3 Common Loons, 2 Red-necked Grebes, Double-crested & 2 Great Cormorants, 4 American Black Ducks, 23 Common Eiders, 5 Surf & 10 White-winged Scoters, 36 Long-tailed Ducks, 7 Red-breasted Mergansers, 3 Black Guillemots

White Head: Flats & Main Road 10:30-11:45
550 Brants, 55 American Black Ducks, 16 Common Eiders, Red-breasted Merganser, 12 Mourning Doves, 3 American Robins, 4+ American Goldfinches

Gull & Langmaid Coves 11:55-12:15
American Black Duck, male Mallard, 130 Common Eiders, male Long-tailed Duck, 9 Red-breasted Meransers, 3 immature Bald Eagles

White Head: Outer Shoreline 12:30-13:00
3 American Black Ducks, male Mallard, 42 Common Eiders, 7 male & 17 female Harlequin Ducks, 4 Red-breasted Mergansers, adult Peregrine Falcon, 2 Black Guillemots

Long Point & Pebble Road 13:00-13:25
8 American Black Ducks, 2 Mallards, 5 Common Eiders, 11 Surf & 7 Black Scoters, 2 Long-tailed Ducks, 3 Red-breasted Mergansers, adult Iceland Gull

White Head: Village & Long Point Road 13:25-13:55
2 Common Eiders, Black Guillemot

White Head Ferry 14:00-14:30
2 Common Loons, 3 Red-necked Grebes, Great & Double-crested Cormorants, 15 Brantas, 33 Common Eiders, 4 White-winged Scoters, 39 Long-tailed Ducks, 2 male Red-breasted Mergansers, Bald Eagle pair, 3 Purple Sandpipers, 5 Black Guillemots

From: Roger Burrows NatureNB
Subject: Grand Manan birds

March 7

Red Point Trail & Red Point 08:45--09:55
3 Common Loons, 9 Red-necked Grebes, 13 American Black Ducks, 3 Common Eiders, male Surf & 9 Black Scoters, 14 Common Goldeneyes, 13 Red-breasted Mergansers, female Downy Woodpecker, singing WINTER WREN (first of spring), 2 American Tree Sparrows

Anchorage Road & Grand Manan Bird Sanctuary 09:55-10:55
14 American Black Ducks, 30 Common Eiders, 2 Black Scoters, signs of recent BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER activity on Bagleys Trail but no sighting, American Robin

Also the first rainbow of the year!

Roger Burrows
Ingalls Head
Grand Manan