Great Egret Ardea alba from Scarborough Marsh yesterday. Photos today just random shots that didn't make it into earlier posts, but ones I like.
No birding today as I was up early to catch a 6:35 AM flight from Boston to Seattle, coming home from my 2 week trip to Maine. I've posted nearly daily while in ME, but it's fun to review the highlights.
Common Loon. Gavia immer
Mt. Washington Auto Road on the June 11th was the birding highlight of the trip, as I saw , 2 American Birding Association Area lifers there, Bicknell's Thrush and Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. Seeing these two species was the reason I timed my visit for early to mid June.
Red-billed Tropicbird Phaethon aethereus
One of the things I miss about Maine, as I spent my youth there, are large fields where hay is grown, and I loved seeing Bobolinks in the Sidney Grasslands.
Once I settled down and had some family time to visit, I worked more on learning the eastern U.S. warbler songs. . I never got them all, but by the end of the trip I was feeling like I had a few down fairly well.
A carniverous plant, I think a Pitcher Plant, that captures insects with sticky resin in the leaves and eats them.
I really enjoyed getting out with local birders on the two times I had the chance. Don Mairs is a veteran Maine birder who graciously showed me the sites. On the first trip I saw a Maine first species Yellow-throated Vireo.
Atlantic Puffin Fratercula arctica
Later in the trip Don took me to an uncommonly easy to get to boreal forest area.
Whale watching and Seabird Nesting Islands got me out on boats in the Gulf of Maine twice.
I finished strong yesterday with a chance to study . two saltmarsh specialty sparrows in the same saltmarsh.
Humpback Whale Megaptera novaeangliae waving goodbye with its tail.
Home safely today, a bit of rest and tomorrow I'm off on a Pierce County June Big Day. Stay tuned.
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