This season, Charmaine, Megan, Jess and I beat the Country Island birding record (Our goal from Day One) with a whopping ONE HUNDRED TWENTY THREE BIRDS! Thats right 1-2-3, 123!!!
To see where CI is, and what it's about click here:
If you're interested, here are my updates from the island:
Anyways, we beat the previous record of 94 in 2012, and 83 in 2011 (The first year I was on CI!)!!
Some pretty good birds are seen every year, including some pretty big Maritime rarities:
European Golden plover
Red-Billed Tropicbird
Sooty Tern
Yellow-Throated Warbler
Yellow-Crowned Night Heron
We didn't see any of those this year....
Going off of the top of my head, I can remember 121 of them, and will update the blog when I remember the other two!
Now, I personally missed out on some pretty good birds this year too:
1.
Cory's Shearwater - Life Bird
This is the only shot I got of a Cory's Shearwater this summer...
2. Sabine's Gull - Life Bird
3. Manx Shearwater - Life Bird
4. Pectoral Sandpiper
5. White-rumped Sandpiper
6. Dovekie
This is my best shot of a Dovekie... from back in 2011.
But, I really can't complain! Here is what I did see!:
* Denotes Photographed
Bold means life bird
7. Canada Goose*
8. American Wigeon*
9. American Black Duck*
10. Mallard*
11. Blue-winged Teal*
12. Green-winged Teal*
13. Common Eider*
14. Harlequin Duck*
15. Surf Scoter*
16. Black Scoter*
17. Red-breasted Merganser*
18. Red-throated Loon*
19. Common Loon*
20. Sooty Shearwater*
21. Leach's Storm-Petrel*
22. Northern Gannet*
23. Double-crested Cormorant
24. Great Cormorant*
25. Great Blue Heron*
26. Osprey*
27. Northern Harrier*
28. Bald Eagle*
29. Black-bellied Plover*
30. Semipalmated Plover*
31. Spotted Sandpiper*
32. Greater Yellowlegs*
33. Willet*
34. Lesser Yellowlegs*
35. Whimbrel*
36. Ruddy Turnstone*
37. Red Knot*
38. Sanderling*
39. Semipalmated Sandpiper*
40. Least Sandpiper*
42. Short-billed Dowitcher*
43. Wilson's Phalarope*
44. Black-legged Kittiwake*
45. Bonaparte's Gull*
46. Laughing Gull*
47. Ring-billed Gull*
48. Herring Gull*
49. Iceland Gull*
50. Great Black-backed Gull*
51. Black Tern*
52. Roseate Tern*
53. Common Tern*
54. Arctic Tern*
55. Parasitic Jaeger*
56. Thick-billed Murre*
57. Razorbill*
58. Black Guillemot*
59. Atlantic Puffin*
60. Common Nighthawk
61. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker*
62. Northern Flicker
63. Merlin*
64. Olive-sided Flycatcher*
65. Eastern Wood-Pewee*
66. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher*
67. Alder Flycatcher
68. Eastern Phoebe*
69. Eastern Kingbird*
70. Blue-headed Vireo*
71. Warbling Vireo*
72. Red-eyed Vireo*
73. American Crow*
74. Common Raven
75. Purple Martin*
76. Tree Swallow*
77. Barn Swallow*
78. Red-breasted Nuthatch
79. Brown Creeper*
80. Golden-crowned Kinglet*
81. Ruby-crowned Kinglet*
82. Swainson's Thrush*
83. Hermit Thrush*
84. American Robin*
85. Gray Catbird*
86. Northern Mockingbird*
87. European Starling*
88. American Pipit*
89. Cedar Waxwing*
90. Ovenbird*
91. Northern Waterthrush*
92. Black-and-white Warbler*
93. Mourning Warbler*
94. Common Yellowthroat*
95. American Redstart*
96. Cape May Warbler*
97. Northern Parula*
98. Magnolia Warbler*
99. Blackburnian Warbler
100. Yellow Warbler*
101. Chestnut-sided Warbler*
102. Blackpoll Warbler*
103. Black-throated Blue Warbler*
104. Palm Warbler*
105. Yellow-rumped Warbler*
106. Black-throated Green Warbler*
107. Canada Warbler*
108. Wilson's Warbler*
109. American Tree Sparrow*
110. Savannah Sparrow*
111. Song Sparrow*
112. Lincoln's Sparrow*
113. White-throated Sparrow*
114. Dark-eyed Junco
115. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
116. Rusty Blackbird*
117. Purple Finch*
118. Pine Siskin*
119. American Goldfinch*
120: Evening Grosbeak
Its quite likely that one of the Epindonax Species was saw was a Least Flycatcher, but we didn't here it's call.
We had one unidentified Owl Species
Also, one unidentified Cuckoo species*. A Cuckoo would be a life bird from me. My initial reaction was a black billed, but the girls that were there were leaning more towards yellow-billed. I had thought that I noticed a lot of black on the forehead area, but was also too busy trying to snap a photo. Needless to say, we were not able to track down the bird.
Hows that for a set pictures!
Next blog will be of the Common/Arctic/Roseate Terns!! Got lots of photos of them!!
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