Birds and Critters at Acadia National Park - Bar Harbor, Maine
May 22-25, 2011
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Three male and two female common eiders floating on the waves.
[The males have black on top of their heads while the rest of the head is white. Their bodies have white on top and black on the sides. The females nearly blend into the dark water as they are shades of dark brown all over.]

Northern Raven
[All black bird (including the beak) standing in the grass.]

Black and white warbler
[Bird with thick black and white stripes on its head, wings, and belly sitting buried in the branches of several trees.]

Yellow rumped warbler
[Small grey bird with white underbelly, white stripe on wing and yellow on wing standing on a tree branch.]

Hooded warbler
[Small bird with yellow head with a dark crown and grey body sitting on a tree branch.]

Black throated green warbler
[The bird is perched with one foot below the other on a thin branch facing the camera. The head appears to be nearly all yellow. The throat and upper breast is nearly black while the rest of the stomach is white. The wings appear to have black and white stripes but hard to tell since only the upper front part is visible.]

Herring gulls just living their lives.
[Two white and grey gulls on a rock. One is looking in the air while the other has its wings up and its mouth wide open as it looks at the rock.]

These herring gulls were unofficial parking lot patrol.
[Two white and grey sea gulls (one walking and one sitting) on the roof of a dark-colored SUV with a roof rack.]

Herring gull who was pecking my car's bumper (I have video proof of it!)
[Herring gull facing me on the pavement beside my car's bumper. Its webbed feet clearly visible on the cement.]

I didn't see any beavers, but they were here!
[Tree trunk on ground near the pond, gnawed to the point it broke about a foot off the ground. Another tree in foreground has plenty of bark chiseled away.]

More proof of the power of beavers
[Another tree lying on its side after being gnawed beside the pond apart.]

Saw this at the aptly named Beaver Dam Pond.
[Looking across the water to the other edge of the pond where a large stack of branches is piled int a triangular shape over on the water.]

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All photos © S. M. Garver