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Wildlife Sightings
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| A juvenile Black Guillemot off of the Seasons dock in Stonington
9/1/10 at high tide in the afternoon. The bird was very obliging,
diving only 15 feet from the dock. |
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| A Shorebird walk and talk was conducted today at Southwest Harbor,
Sunset. The extensive wrack line was alive with food stuffs for the
birds. We had 2 immature Great Blue Herons, 10 Black-bellied Plover,
16 Semipalmated Plovers, 1 Greater Yellowlegs, 9 Lesser Yellowlegs, 10
Semipalmated Sandpipers, appropriately 60 Least Sandpipers, 2
White-rumped Sandpipers on this gorgeous morning. |
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Location: Southwest Harbor, Sunset, ME
Observation date: 8/10/10
Common Eider X
Double-crested Cormorant 5
Osprey 1
Bald Eagle 1
Semipalmated Plover 20
Killdeer 2
Least Sandpiper 10
Semipalmated Sandpiper 15
Short-billed Dowitcher 1
Lesser Yellowlegs |
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Location: Wainwright Marsh & Reach Beach
Observation date: 8/10/10
American Black Duck x Mallard (hybrid) 8
Osprey 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper 5
Least Sandpiper 10
Bonaparte's Gull X
Herring Gull X |
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Location: Wainwright Marsh & Reach Beach - Island Heritage
Trust
Observation date: 8/9/10 in a 15 min. time period
Ruddy Turnstone 12
Location: Southwest Harbor, Sunset, ME
Observation date: 8/9/10 in a 15 min. time period
Lesser Yellowlegs 2
Least Sandpiper 4
Stilt Sandpiper 1 |
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Nesting Ospreys on top of the Cel-tower in Stonington....lots of happy
chirping and activity
haven't seen any daredevil fledglings yet...I wish them good luck
as it's a long way down ! |
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| Arctic Tern and Osprey over the Mill Pond in Deer Isle village this
morning |
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| 7 Great Blue Herons, Pickering Cove, on the morning of July 27, 2010 |
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Observation date: daily, since June 8 or 9, 2010.
Pair of ospreys nesting on Little Thrumcap Is., Pickering Cove. |
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Observation Date: June 10, 2010
Blackburnian Warbler
Great Brook, near Tennis Preserve. |
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| Over the weekend at our Wings, Waves & Woods festival there was plenty
of excitement. For me the three most exciting things were hearing a
barking red fox and hearing a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher on Saturday at
the Settlement Quarry and on Sunday 3 of us heard another
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher while at Scott's Landing. These
occurrence made my weekend! We need to do it again. |
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Settlement Quarry 9:10-10:30 AM Turkey Vulture 2, Osprey 3,
Herring Gull 9, Blue Jay 1, American Crow 3, Common Raven 2,
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1, Winter Wren 1,Golden-crowned Kinglet 1,
American Robin 2,
Northern Parula 2, Chestnut-sided Warbler 1, Yellow-rumped Warbler 1,
Black-throated Green Warbler 5, Song Sparrow 1, Dark-eyed Junco 3,
Purple Finch 1, American Goldfinch 3 |
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Just spend an hour looking out the window at warblers in a birch tree
-- chestnut-sided, black-and-white, magnolia, black-throated green,
AND blackburnian with flaming throat. Several of each and all males.
Nice prelude to Wings weekend.
Lee Fay reports eagle chicks in Carney and Second I. nests. |
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The solitary/blue headed vireo is back singing near the Barred Island
parking lot along with black-throated green warblers, hermit thrushes
and winter wrens in the area.
Lee Fay reports yellow-bellied sapsucker and parula warbler on Whitman
Road. |
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| 4 lesser yellowlegs at Ames Pond April 28 |
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A tattered over-wintering Mourning Cloak butterfly, as well and yellow
sulpur and white cabbage, at Scott's Landing on April 25.
On Barred Island conservation easement: yellow-rumped warbler, winter
wren, hermit thrush. |
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| Greater Yellowlegs on the flats at Northeast Harbor this morning (next
to outflow from the Mill Pond) |
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| They are finally back! Pine Warblers at Scotts Landing this morning.
Also of note - tree swallows and redneck grebes. |
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| Downy woodpecker at bird feeder on deck of Red House B & B |
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| March 27, 2010. Early this chilling morning a beaver visited Conary
Cove. It was swimming back and forth under the ice and coming to shore
to eat. It stayed around for about 1 hour. I was able to take several
pictures. What a blessing! |
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| The Eagles on Carney Island are sitting on their nest! We can expect
a hatching around April 17th. This is early for them according to Lee
Fay, the island eagle expert. |
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| Wednesday March 10 - Scott's Landing Preserve, Northern Shrike |
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| On February 20th, near the middle of Crockett Cove preserve I saw a
Boreal Chickadee. It is the first one I have ever seen, but quite
unmistakeable since it alighted on a branch about two feet away from
my face and proceeded to examine me with its beady little eyes for
several minutes. |
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Sunshine: Plumb Point, NW corner-
Saw a pair of Pileated Woodpeckers about 20 feet from the South side
of the house on Feb. 9th. They hung around quite a while, mostly
pecking at a large stump.
Then two days ago we saw a Deer swimming from somewhere west of us out
of Greenlaw Cove towards Bear Island. He/She swam past the closest
possible landing on Little Bear/Black Is. and on to Bear Is. a bit
beyond. It seemed unfazed by the rather long swim and not at all
tired out. Amazing... brrrr. |
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| Thursday Feb. 18 at the head of Conary Cove a Barred owl flew down
below our deck and back up landing in a tree near our house. It was
carrying a small rodent. After a few minutes it devoured it's
prey. |
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Island
Heritage Trust
420 Sunset Road ~ Deer Isle, Maine
Mail: P.O. Box 42 / Deer Isle, ME 04627
Phone: 207-348-2455
FAX: 207-348-2455
E-mail: iht@islandheritagetrust.org
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