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Puffin Trip in Maine

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When Daisy started talking about a family trip to Maine for the long Memorial Day Weekend I had one thing on my mind: puffins! Atlantic Puffins are easier to see, and see well, in Maine than anywhere else in the United States. Eastern Egg Rock is a tiny, rocky island well within site of the Maine-land.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of May 2017)

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I was pleased to discover that Hooded Warblers can be found consistently at my mother-in-law’s home, but they weren’t my best bird. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was any of the five Atlantic Puffins he saw on Eastern Egg Rock off the coast of Maine.

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Collaborative List – October 2018

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It is also a month when the Law of Diminishing Returns over-took itself. Tufted Puffin – Fratercula cirrhata. Atlantic Puffin – Fratercula arctica. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. above Socorro. 25 Jul 2018.

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