More Maine Birds

An exhausted Chestnut-sided Warbler (Setophaga pensylvanica) looking for food amidst the festering seaweed of Lobster Cove on Monhegan Island.And here’s one of the Empidonax flycatchers in the same spot. These flycatchers are impossible to tell apart unless they vocalize.There were big flocks of Cedar Waxwings (Bombycilla cedrorum) over Monhegan, sometimes landing near by. A Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps grisegena) in full breeding array was near the long breakwater in Rockland. You may remember the winter plumage birds who visited Brooklyn this winter.A Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis); from this angle, the yellow above the eye helps to ID this species.A pair of Common Eider (Somateria mollissima): male above, female below:

Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra)