You can see puffins on 5 Maine islands
Atlantic puffins are rarely seen from shore. Their only nesting colonies in the United States are on five islands along the Maine coast.
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Atlantic puffins are rarely seen from shore. Their only nesting colonies in the United States are on five islands along the Maine coast.
One of them was a Hammond’s flycatcher spotted on Monhegan Island on Oct. 12 – a first for the state.
The life of a lighthouse keeper in isolated corners of Maine was a lonely one. And no day on a windswept island like Matinicus, Monhegan or Petit Manan was as lonely as Christmas Day.
"Birding in Maine would be great, even if we didn’t have an ocean. But we do, and anyone who birds only on land is, ahem, missing the boat."
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