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Posted by John Hutchison on 12:52:23 06/03/09
I just finished my 22 nd trip to Monhegan Island Maine. Florida birders really do miss our songbirds (Thrushes and Warblers) on territory singing loudly and defending there breeding ground.
I have lamented in my birding lifetime the decline of numbers of neotropical migrant birds particularly in the last few years. But I rejoice in a the successes of the Bald Eagle, Peregrine Falcons and this week the success of the Atlantic Puffin.
Steven Kress, of Cornell introduced Puffins back to Eastern Egg Rock in the very early 1970s. My first trip to Eastern Egg Rock I beleive there were about two dozen nests in 1982. When I returned in 2001 there were over 60 nests. Last summer there were 106 nests and this year our trip was amazing Puffins all around our boat, 20 Puffins on a rock. Pufins on all ends of the island. This year sould prove to be equal or higher than last year. What a remarkable sight and success story. Also on the island we had a few Razorbills, Artic, Roseate and Common Terns and a lone Purple Sandpiper that had not left for the northlands
My group on 13 had far too much fun eating LOBSTA, drinking wine and birding. Can we bring back the songbird!!!! See you in October, I have hip surgery planned for July 1st.
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