Monhegan Island, Maine
Fall 2010
With a grand total of 126 species, this fall's annual trips to
Monhegan Island broke last year's record by one species. That ceremonial bird would be Yellow-throated Warbler. But this trip had all manner of oddities, which is typical on Monhegan, including a Lark Bunting Bryan discovered during scouting for the trips. Alas, it departed before birding groups arrived.
Warblers were a bit hard to find this year: 21 species (padded with Yellow-breasted Chat) is rather modest sum by Monhegan standards. But a Western Kingbird on a wire, a Sora walking at our feet, a White-eyed Vireo, two Dickcissels and Lark Sparrows do help out when warblers aren't around in abundance. Here are a dozen Monhegan dispatches on my blog, The Daily Wing, from last fall. And here's the complete trip list:
DUCKS AND GEESE
American Black Duck
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Wood Duck
Common Eider
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter
PHEASANTS
Ring-necked Pheasant
LOONS
Common Loon
SHEARWATERS, GANNET, AND CORMORANTS
Northern Gannet
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Cormorant
HERONS
American Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
HAWKS, EAGLES and FALCONS
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
RAILS
Sora
SHOREBIRDS
Semipalmated Plover
Black-bellied Plover
American Golden Plover
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Whimbrel
Wilson’s Snipe
GULLS AND TERNS
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Black Skimmer
ALCIDS
Black Guillemot
PIGEONS AND DOVES
Mourning Dove
CUCKOOS
Yellow-billed Cockoo
SWIFTS & HUMMINGBIRDS
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
KINGFISHER
Belted Kingfisher
WOODPECKERS
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
FLYCATCHERS
Alder/Willow Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Western Kingbird
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-Pewee
VIREOS
White-eyed Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
JAYS, CROWS AND RAVEN
Blue Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
SWALLOWS
Tree Swallow
CHICKADEES AND TITMOUSE
Black-capped Chickadee
NUTHATCHES & CREEPER
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
WRENS
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
KINGLETS AND GNATCATCHER
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
THRUSHES
Swainson’s Thrush
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
MIMICS
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
STARLINGS
European Starlings
PIPITS AND WAXWINGS
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
WARBLERS
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Palm Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Northern Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson’s Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
TANAGERS
Scarlet Tanager
SPARROWS AND RELATIVES
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Lark Bunting (Bryan found this one during scouting)
Dark-eyed Junco
CARDINALS AND BUNTINGS
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Dickcissel
BLACKBIRDS
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird
Common Grackle
Baltimore Oriole
FINCHES
Purple Finch
American Goldfinch
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