I haven’t yet posted a Monhegan tour blog from last weekend, so I figured I’d at least post some of the highlights from our extremely exciting weekend chock-full of great birds!

9/24 (with Monhegan Fall Migration Weekend tour group):

• 1 adult GREAT BLACK BACKED X HERRING GULL HYBRID
• 1 adult Lesser Black-backed Gull
• 1 Sora

9/25 (with tour group):

• 1 adult PROTHONOTARY WARBLER. Found by me at “Chat Bridge” and refound nearby a short while later by Kristen Lindquist and part of my group.  Only bird of the weekend not seen again.
• 1 YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
• 8 DICKCISSELS (in flock together at one point)
• 2 CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS (in flock with 8 Dickcissels).
• 1 Gray-cheeked/Bicknell’s Thrush (presumed Gray-cheeked)
• 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

9/26 (with Tour group):

• 1 YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
• 1 immature male BLUE GROSBEAK
• At least 4 CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS
• At least 7 DICKCISSELS
• 1 adult Lesser Black-backed Gull

9/27 (with tour group):

• 1 WESTERN KINGBIRD (found by Kristen Lindquist. Refound by us at the Trailing Yew, then later by our group again at the cemetery. Last sighting?)
• At least 5 DICKCISSELS
• At least 4 CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS

• 9/28 (with Jeannette and Kristen Lindquist):
• 1 immature male BLUE GROSBEAK
• 2 LARK SPARROWS
• At least 4 CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS
• At least 4 DICKCISSELS
• 1 Orange-crowned Warbler
• 1 unidentified jaeger at a floating Minke Whale carcass offshore.
• 1 adult Lesser Black-backed Gull

Other Highlights:

• 2 AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS, Dry Ledges off of Allen Island from Port Clyde Ferry, 9/28 (with Jeannette).

And don’t forget, our next pelagic with Cap’n Fish’s out of Boothbay Harbor is coming up, on October 11^th. Information and registration can be found here.

OK, back to work on my Monhegan blog.