Rick Wiltraut, Gordon Yoder, and I crammed our gear and ourselves into my little Nissan Pulsar and headed for Maine. We spent the night in Jonesport, Maine.
June 28, 1990
We drove to the harbor and got on Barna Norton's boat for the trip out to Machias Seal Island. We 'docked' and worked our way across the island towards the bird blinds.
The adult Arctic Terns, which saw us as a threat to their nests, were constantly dive-bombing us as we worked our way across the island to the bird blinds.
From the bird blind, we could look out on the numbers of Razorbills and Atlantic Puffins.
Additional birds seen from the boat and the island included Common Loon, Double-crested Cormorant, Common Eider, Great Black-backed and Herring Gull, Black Guillemot, and Common Murre.
We returned to the mainland and headed north on Route 1 for Cobscook Bay State Park, hoping for species like Black-backed Woodpecker and Boreal Chickadee. We didn't find either but, instead, found Pileated Woodpecker and Black-capped Chickadee.
Other notable birds seen while in Maine included Red-necked Grebe, Bonaparte's Gull, Bald Eagle, Broad-winged Hawk, Alder Flycatcher, Common Raven, Brown Creeper, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Winter Wren, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Swainson's and Hermit Thrush, Solitary Vireo, Evening Grosbeak, Pine Siskin, Purple Finch, and warblers that included Nashville, Magnolia, Yellow-rumped, Blackburnian, and Black-throated Green.
June 29-30, 1990
We slowly birded our way south through Maine and then worked our way back home.
